Eurovision Song Contest 2023

Kellie Lewis who was a runner up on The Voice a few years ago was one of our Juriors. She had a new single on The Late Late Show a few weeks ago.

That’s the route I think we should go… Traditional Irish, and even in Irish! But try and build a whole performance around it…

if we’re gonna go down, at least go down with our heads held high, and promoting our country/culture.

Give TG4 the full budget, let them provide the song/act, and RTÉ still get to go on their jolly to Sweden next year…

and who knows, it might end up being just a guy with a guitar, or a full on trad session…. But at least it’ll be authentically Irish. Play to our strengths.

Play to our stereotype is what we need to do. Give them what they think being Irish is.

I was thinking more Daniel O Donnell doing rap.

Reading that the draw for the final now is you are drawn in the first half or the second half of the final and then the producers pick what number you get in the half you are drawn in!

Absolute joke as it should be like it was before when no matter who you were that you were drawn a number and that's it.

Maybe this is going on years but it is another thing that leaves a sour taste in my mouth!

If the 1966 Dikie Rock song "Come back to stay" was in it this year Ireland would now have 8 wins.

It's brilliant.

I'm guilty of it myself, but the backlash against Sweden is a bit OTT - sure Finland won the popular vote but Sweden still got a hell of a lot of public votes too, so it was a very popular song nonetheless - still think she kind of ruined it - she came across as fairly ignorant in almost all of her interviews - she seemed completely baked off her bin in her 'mediative' state!

On the jury though, despite the clamouring that they rigged it for Sweden, I actually think it functioned very well - my two favourites that have left an impression a few days on are Australia and Estonia - these scored very well (rightly) by the jurors but were absolutely abysmal in the popular vote. As much craic as the Finland song was live on the night, it's actually pretty crap when you listen back to it - great live number (and I suspect an apres ski hit for Winter 23/24!) but a great song? Give me the Sweden one anyday really. Without the juror vote, we may as well hand it over to who have the most tiktok likes as that's what will dominate in future, i.e. pure and simple ear worm type trash that distills well into 15 second clips (if we're not already there 😖!

Estonia my favourite though, gets better on each listen!

cha cha cha is good for 2 minutes and terrible for one

2 minutes of finnish rap and then I dunno what youd call the last section

Not arguing about Ireland's position but the Sweden win was odd. It was as if almost all the juries had got together to give them a 12 or at least 10? Did this type of landslide happen before when the public vote was so different?

You mention Fairytale but the second place that year Iceland's 'Is it true?'was far better.