The 'Official AH Eurovision Song Contest Thread' Part Une.

Mint Sauce

Its the show we all love to hate, deny watching, and pretend to know nothing about. So to all you still in your Eurovision closet, and out of it, it all starts tonight with the first of the Semi Finals featuring our boy Ryan Dolan, at the Malmö Arena in Sweden, with the second semi final on Thursday night. Both on RTE2 and BBC3, with the final on RTE2 and BBC1 on Saturday.

And for all of you still denying knowledge or like for it, this won last year. Yes I forgot it was a Eurovision Winner as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcnWysA9gxo

Oh, and here's Ryans and Team Irelands entry for this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNQNdHV279w

And keeping with Eurovision Tradition, heres the whole post in French (may not be totally accurate)

C'est le spectacle que nous aimons tous à la haine, de refuser à regarder, et faire semblant de ne rien savoir. Donc, pour tout vous encore dans votre garde-robe de l'Eurovision, et hors de lui, tout commence ce soir avec la première des demi-finales comportant notre garçon Ryan Dolan, à la Malmö Arena en Suède, avec la deuxième demi-finale, jeudi soir. Tant sur RTE2 et BBC3, avec la finale RTE2 et BBC1 le samedi.

Et pour vous tous, niant toujours les connaissances ou comme pour elle, ce remporté l'an dernier. Oui j'ai oublié qu'il était un gagnant de l'Eurovision ainsi.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcnWysA9gxo

Oh, et ​​voici Ryans et Team entrée Irelands pour cette année.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNQNdHV279w

ballsymchugh

which reminds me, where is jonjo the miser?

efb

Where is Jonjo? Malmo?

Mint Sauce

ballsymchugh wrote: »

which reminds me, where is jonjo the miser?

Probably trawling through EV achives in readiness for starting a thread or for this one.

Chalutage probablement par EV achives en préparation pour le démarrage d'un fil ou pour celui-ci.

Clandestine

irish-stew wrote: »

Oh, and here's Ryans and Team Irelands entry for this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNQNdHV279w

What an awful song... it'll fit in fine with the rest of the Eurovision entries so...

ballsymchugh

irish-stew wrote: »

Probably trawling through EV achives in readiness for starting a thread or for this one.

maybe he did untold damage to himself during the last rose of tralee!

Cody Pomeray

Last year's winner is not bad for a Eurovision entry.

I have to say, the fun of the eurovision wore off when they started with this two day jiggery-pokery, text voting, run-offs, and leaving out votes 1 through to 10:mad:

They just completely wrecked it.

At the risk of sounding like a UKIP voter, we need less Europa and more of old Europe.

Bring back Anne Dunne and the jury system too. I'm all for a totalitarian eurovision song contest.

NegativeCreep

I really like the song that won last year

13spanner

At least we didn't go with Jedward for a 3rd time in a row.

Cosmicfox

I only watch it on the night so it's all a surprise. Though I've heard people say it's all boring ballads this year so I'll probably going to be disappointed. I want more stuff like Moldova's entry last year or Ukraine's in 2007 with the sparkly woman thing and the two very enthusiastic dancers.

Nabber

Israel is in Europe?

Latchy

I prefer the old Europe Eurovision to before all the preliminary's .I like the British entry '' Believe In Me '' with Bonnie Tyler .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kugmicccRGQ

Danish ...a fav to win with an Irish sound to it .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k59E7T0H-Us

DrumSteve

"Eh,Ireland,no points."

HondaSami

I did not realiase it was Eurovision time, will watch this evening. Good luck Ireland. I want us to win this year.

Are there any grannies singing this year?

Galwayguy35

Nabber wrote: »

Israel is in Europe?

I never really understood why Israel were there at all, seeing as it's in the Middle East.

Iwasfrozen

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

I never really understood why Israel were there at all, seeing as it's in the Middle East.

The middle east don't want them.

KeithM89

Is Marty Whelan still doin his usual witty banter?
He was on fine form last year. :pac:

Mint Sauce

Nabber wrote: »

Israel is in Europe?

Neither is Azerbaijan.

Ce n'est pas non Azerbaïdjan.

Latchy wrote: »

I prefer the old Europe Eurovision to before all the preliminary's .I like the British entry '' Believe In Me '' with Bonnie Tyler .

Britain are taking it seriously lately. Engelbert Humperdinck last year, and Blue the year before.

Grande-Bretagne prennent au sérieux ces derniers temps. Engelbert Humperdinck l'année dernière, et Blue de l'année précédente.

Mint Sauce

Scylla wrote: »

Is Marty Whelan still doin his usual witty banter?
He was on fine form last year. :pac:

He's no Terry Wogan, although Graham Norton is giving it a good go.

Am thinking should I also be doing the translations in Swedish considering they are the host country.



Il n'est pas Terry Wogan, même si Graham Norton donne un bon coup.

Pense dois-je aussi être en train de faire les traductions en considérant Suédois ils sont le pays d'accueil.

orestes

Nabber wrote: »

Israel is in Europe?

Isreal have hosted the thing before and won it at least once that I can remember. Israel isn't in Europe but entry isn't just based on being a European nation, it's based on being in the European broadcasting zone since they're the ones who run the event. I think there are a few other countries around the Middle East that might be eligible for entry too. It's not supposed to be a political thing, if anything it's supposed to be the opposite.

HondaSami

Scylla wrote: »

Is Marty Whelan still doin his usual witty banter?
He was on fine form last year. :pac:

Marty is good but Terry Wogan is an absolute legend imo. I miss him, don't watch Graham but might this year to see what he is like.

Latchy

irish-stew wrote: »

Britain are taking it seriously lately. Engelbert Humperdinck last year, and Blue the year before.

Humps song was terrible and I wasn't surprised how bad it finished but Bonnie Tyler's song this year is gusty and should do reasonably well .Just listened to the Danish entry and can see now why it's fav .

dodderangler

So who's representing ireland this year?
Gay twins? A drugged up junkie turkey?
Bono?

Mint Sauce

orestes wrote: »

Isreal have hosted the thing before and won it at least once that I can remember. Israel isn't in Europe but entry isn't just based on being a European nation, it's based on being in the European broadcasting zone since they're the ones who run the event. I think there are a few other countries around the Middle East that might be eligible for entry too. It's not supposed to be a political thing, if anything it's supposed to be the opposite.

A number of North African Nations according to Wiki can also entry, I assume for the same reasons.

Un certain nombre de nations d'Afrique du Nord selon Wiki peut également entrée, je suppose, pour les mêmes raisons.

I'll soon stop with the piss take translating/dual language, promise.

Je vais bientôt arrêter avec la promesse pisse prendre traduction /double langage.

Mint Sauce

dodderangler wrote: »

So who's representing ireland this year?
Gay twins? A drugged up junkie turkey?
Bono?

Erm, its in my OP.

Erm, son dans mon OP.

dodderangler

irish-stew wrote: »

Erm, its in my OP.

Erm, son dans mon OP.

Was more making a statement on the idiots that Ireland would likely have picked op

Anyone

Its all political these days...

Archeron

The chorus of the Irish entry really reminds me of "we are alive" by Paul van dyke.

Mountainsandh

Pfff... Ce n'est pas Part Une, on dit "premiere partie". Veuillez me copier 10 fois le verbe "apprendre"au present de l'indicatif.

Mint Sauce

dodderangler wrote: »

Was more making a statement on the idiots that Ireland would likely have picked op

The Daily Fail or The S*n will probably try and print something totally innocent and blow it all out of proportion before the end of the week.

My name is URL

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

I never really understood why Israel were there at all, seeing as it's in the Middle East.

They're members of the European Broadcasting Union which makes them eligible to enter. It has nothing to do with geograpgy.

Iwasfrozen wrote: »

The middle east don't want them.

That's actually true when it comes to football. They were kicked out of the AFC and UEFA had to take them under their wing!

padd b1975

orestes wrote: »

Isreal have hosted the thing before and won it at least once that I can remember. Israel isn't in Europe but entry isn't just based on being a European nation, it's based on being in the European broadcasting zone since they're the ones who run the event. I think there are a few other countries around the Middle East that might be eligible for entry too. It's not supposed to be a political thing, if anything it's supposed to be the opposite.

Apart from Ireland, Isreal are the only country to have retained it.

Last time they won, it was with a transexual, Pat Kenny who was doing background commentary referred to her as 'it'.

HondaSami

padd b1975 wrote: »

Apart from Ireland, Isreal are the only country to have retained it.

Last time they won, it was with a transexual, Pat Kenny who was doing background commentary referred to her as 'it'.

Was that Dana?

orestes

padd b1975 wrote: »

Last time they won, it was with a transexual, Pat Kenny who was doing background commentary referred to her as 'it'.

I remember that, even at 13 I thought it was a horrible thing to say and couldn't believe that people thought it was funny.

padd b1975

HondaSami wrote: »

Was that Dana?

Second coming.

Eurovision died a death when they got rid of the orchestra and replaced it with backing tracks.

KenSwee

orestes wrote: »

Isreal have hosted the thing before and won it at least once that I can remember. Israel isn't in Europe but entry isn't just based on being a European nation, it's based on being in the European broadcasting zone since they're the ones who run the event. I think there are a few other countries around the Middle East that might be eligible for entry too. It's not supposed to be a political thing, if anything it's supposed to be the opposite.

Morocco entered it once.

KenSwee

My favorites.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BHHlS4FZIA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBBzyg_m4Qs

The Backwards Man

@irish-stew

ferme ta bouche

Some of us have enough trouble reading English.:P

Mint Sauce

Its started.

AK333

Not sure what the UK are thinking the last few years - Englebert Humpledink, Blue, Bonnie Tyler - all has beens. They aren't/weren't very popular in the UK, why on earth did they think the rest of Europe would like them?

padd b1975

orestes wrote: »

I remember that, even at 13 I thought it was a horrible thing to say and couldn't believe that people thought it was funny.

Dig up Pat!!
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/kenny-unapologetic-at-it-jibe-over-euro-winner-26186546.html

Cody Pomeray

Israel were robbed in 1995.

I must admit it had a big impact on me and I have been sympathetic to the plight of the Israelis ever since.
/sarcasm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ivtEeYdT4U

Mint Sauce

The Backwards Man wrote: »

@irish-stew

ferme ta bouche

Some of us have enough trouble reading English.:P

I stopped a couple of posts ago.

:P

The Backwards Man

irish-stew wrote: »

I stopped a couple of posts ago.

:P

D'accord!

AK333

Was that us they were trying to stereotype? :rolleyes:

Oh, this was a eurovision song?

Cody Pomeray

Have to study with my headphones. The RTE Radio 1 coverage is literally 2 guys sitting in a room watching the Eurovision.

RayM

padd b1975 wrote: »

Last time they won, it was with a transexual, Pat Kenny who was doing background commentary referred to her as 'it'.

And he refused to apologise.

He told listeners: "It gets ridiculous. It doesn't matter about the hormones. The essential difference between men and women physically is the fact that women have ovaries and can bear children. That's what really defines a woman physically, not emotionally, not professionally.

"You can put the boobs on, and all the baubles and all the big hair you like, but unless you literally are capable of giving birth, you are not really a woman, are you?''

It's hard not to read that in an Alan Partridge voice. Anywhere else, the c*nt would have been sacked.

coconut5

You can just tell that blond kid with the glasses is a character.

I love this intro