Eurovision Song Contest 2026

The UK submission had deteriorated significantly in the past decade. Last night was just another rubbish song, and I thought they had reached rock bottom in 2024.

Woke up this morning, and ‘Per sempre sì’ was the earworm!

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I did like their effort last year. This year was almost a classic contemptuous Eurovision entry. Austria basically said "we're good" this year with their entry as well.

I watched the voting sequence this morning (on YouTube, so no commentary.) Well, the negative things I heard about the presenters all week were true. I half expected Victoria to step out from behind the podium at some point to declare she was AI and didn't really exist. That said, I liked how she said several times during the voting that not receiving any televote points didn't mean no one voted for you, it just meant you didn't make the top 10 in any country. I also found it really odd as well that the scoreboard didn't reorder as the lower points came in, and waited until the 12 points to rearrange itself.

They really need to do something about those spokespersons building up their part. It should take 15 secs max to say "Hello Vienna, this is Berne calling. Thank you for a wonderful show, our 12 points go to Malta. Goodnight and thank you." Instead they all dragged it out…"Hello Vienna, this is Valetta calling. Thank you for a wonderful show, it was truly, truly spectacular and you have indeed proved tonight that we are all united by music. I can't believe it's been 18 years since I represented my country in Belgrade, and I'm so, so happy to be back with you all again [even though not a single person remembers her.] I know exactly how it feels for all of you in the green room and I'm thinking of you all. You have all done your country so proud tonight, and you can all return home with your heads held high. As you can see, here are our early points. And now, the big moment, the big reveal, the moment you've all been waiting for…the 12 points from Malta. [She then bursts into the chorus of the song with which she finished 14th in the second semi-final in 2008.] Our jury has spoken, and it has decided that our 12 points go to……………………………………………………………………Moldova."

Seriously, we need a new rule next year, every spokesperson gets 15 seconds to deliver their 12 points. If they fail, cut them off…the EBU already knows each jury's points as the juries voted Friday night.

Brilliant post👏

Romania snuck up on most people with a fantastic song and performance - a lot of people blindsided due to it being more for the metalheads and not the mainstream pop crowd.

Surprised Sweden finished so low - great song but her vocals were pretty poor.

Might watch the 1996 contest later on.

‘Ooh Aah…Just A Little Bit’ - timeless pop classic that deserved better on the night.

VRT are the Flemish controlled channel and believed to favour a boycott. Let's see how this plays out with the EBU later this year - I'm not sure German and Austrian TV will be in as strong a position to fight Israel's corner given that the hosting and staging in Sofia will have nothing to do with them.

Or maybe people in Europe don't have the same bizarre hatred for Israel that the Irish seem to have.

Maybe they see beyond the Palestinian sob stories and see them for what they are, i.e. willing to murder ever Jewish person if the opportunity arose.

And remember a lot of Europe is still scared from the Holocaust, there are people who still remember their school friends and their families being rounded up and transported to their deaths, just because they were Jewish.

That never happened in Ireland, we don't have that memory.

The Irish are really on the wrong side of history here.

The fact that the split screen involved Israel both this year and last is significant - realistically their songs both years would have merited maybe coming around 12th to 15th, so really makes their positioning in the top two suspicious and meriting serious investigation by the EBU. The reaction videos from the media centre in Vienna before the televote for Bulgaria showed how tense the atmosphere was and the palpable relief and joy when Bulgaria won. It really was a case of delight that Bulgaria won but equal relief that Israel didn't. This situation is simply unsustainable and needs to be dealt with once and for all.