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Brian Kennedy is doing Eurovision

  • 14-11-2005 03:18PM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,082 ✭✭✭


    hot news from liveline,

    well i guess he's perfect for it in a way :/


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,468 ✭✭✭Tazz T


    He's awful. We'd be better off sending the terrible twins back from last year.

    We need to think outside the boundaries of the UK and Ireland.

    Send a rock/metal band with an Irish twist. That's the only way we'll win this again.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,001 ✭✭✭ravenhead


    Tazz T wrote:
    He's awful. We'd be better off sending the terrible twins back from last year.

    We need to think outside the boundaries of the UK and Ireland.

    Send a rock/metal band with an Irish twist. That's the only way we'll win this again.

    But that's the whole point, the organisers don't want us to win it again, that's why thety keep sending such crap to represent us!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,287 ✭✭✭joe_chicken


    ravenhead wrote:
    But that's the whole point, the organisers don't want us to win it again, that's why thety keep sending such crap to represent us!

    You've foiled our evil plan... DAMN YOUUUU!!!!
    Tazz T wrote:
    Send a rock/metal band with an Irish twist.

    That'll do the trcik nicely.. muhhhahhahaaahhhaaaaaaaa

    some nice electrified bodhráns... or a rapping sheep... nice


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,082 ✭✭✭lostexpectation


    remember those painted up mad lads from the first series i think, the organisers have to send somebody even they think are ridiculous to have a chance of winning :)

    although now that i think of i thought they wer going to avoid the solo male singer? a who cares


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,899 ✭✭✭lacuna


    I didn't think you could participate if you were already established as an artist.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,598 ✭✭✭ferdi


    lacuna wrote:
    I didn't think you could participate if you were already established as an artist.
    yeah thats what i thought:confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,588 ✭✭✭Bluetonic


    I'm sure he hopes the whole of Ireland is behind him ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,323 ✭✭✭Hitchhiker's Guide to...


    at the risk of being shot...

    /ducks behind bullet-proof glass

    ...Brian Kennedy is a great singer, one of the best traditional singers in the country imho

    Why should we send some crappy rock band? - that isn't what we do. let's send a decent traditional singer, and at least be proud of listening to him...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    lacuna wrote:
    I didn't think you could participate if you were already established as an artist.
    nope.... just that most "established" artists wouldnt embarress themselves by doing it....
    ..Brian Kennedy is a great singer, one of the best traditional singers in the country imho

    Why should we send some crappy rock band? - that isn't what we do. let's send a decent traditional singer, and at least be proud of listening to him...
    I would have agreed with you when it was judge voting (he'd probably win it), but with public voting, you need something mad.
    Dana International....
    Those Zena Warriors from the Ukraine...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,724 ✭✭✭BoozyBabe


    lacuna wrote:
    I didn't think you could participate if you were already established as an artist.

    Eh Celine Dion, Abba, etc, etc, etc.......

    Brian Kennedy's not that big. I'm sure a lot of other countries haven't heard of him before.

    Just like we haven't a clue who most of the foreign singers are, but they're prob already massive in their own countries.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,323 ✭✭✭Hitchhiker's Guide to...


    whiskeyman wrote:
    nope.... just that most "established" artists wouldnt embarress themselves by doing it....

    hey, tatu did it for Russia, and they were an established act!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,588 ✭✭✭Bluetonic


    BoozyBabe wrote:
    Brian Kennedy's not that big.

    "Thankfully", said Ronan Keating.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,724 ✭✭✭BoozyBabe


    Bluetonic wrote:
    "Thankfully", said Ronan Keating.
    :D:D:D:D:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,857 ✭✭✭Bogger77


    lacuna wrote:
    I didn't think you could participate if you were already established as an artist.
    remember its a song contest not a singer contest.

    ABBA, Dion, Clif Richard, etc all have taken part, the rule is that the song cannot have been released before, and can't be released as a single until 2 weeks before the Eurovision contest.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    hey, tatu did it for Russia, and they were an established act!
    established... perhaps.... but not really for their music :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,724 ✭✭✭BoozyBabe


    Bogger77 wrote:
    the rule is that the song cannot have been released before, and can't be released as a single until 2 weeks before the Eurovision contest.

    Closet fan:eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,323 ✭✭✭Hitchhiker's Guide to...


    BoozyBabe wrote:
    Brian Kennedy's not that big.

    Bluetonic wrote:
    "Thankfully", said Ronan Keating.

    LOL - absolute classic


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,857 ✭✭✭Bogger77


    BoozyBabe wrote:
    Closet fan:eek:
    I'm up there with Terry Wogan on my love of Eurovision.

    Fan? Nope, good at general knowledge!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,724 ✭✭✭BoozyBabe


    Bogger77 wrote:
    I'm up there with Terry Wogan on my love of Eurovision.

    Fan? Nope, good at general knowledge!


    Ah, I was only taking the mickey anyways!!

    (Obviously not Brian Kennedy's though!):p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,082 ✭✭✭lostexpectation


    ...Brian Kennedy is a great singer, one of the best traditional singers in the country imho

    nothing wrong with traditional but do him and his tv shows have to so twee?


    should ahve sent that band from doneal the ????/ girls?


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 603 ✭✭✭Prior Of Taize


    traditional singer



    :confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,648 ✭✭✭dundalk cailin


    at the risk of being shot...

    /ducks behind bullet-proof glass

    ...Brian Kennedy is a great singer, one of the best traditional singers in the country imho

    say there's a queue now to shoot ya :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,082 ✭✭✭lostexpectation


    :confused:


    isn't there a difference between traditional and twee


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,372 ✭✭✭✭jimmycrackcorm


    I got the impression that to win now you need yo have a glitzy show with sexy women. After all Turkey won with a rip off with a chakira song - how that was allowed is beyond me.

    I'd suggest getting Michael Flately in singin my lovely horse..... :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,856 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    We need Johnny Logan back!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,397 ✭✭✭EKRIUQ


    BoozyBabe wrote:
    Ah, I was only taking the mickey anyways!!

    (Obviously not Brian Kennedy's though!):p

    I'm sure Brian Kennedy does'nt mind whose mickey he takes.;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,027 ✭✭✭alleepally


    ffs

    What's this then, a new carry on film thread or something?

    Everyone has turned into mini Sid James "wha ha ha ha" - nudge nudge wink wink, BK is GAY!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 340 ✭✭The Song Thrush


    BoozyBabe wrote:
    Eh Celine Dion, Abba, etc, etc, etc.......
    But they weren't famous when they sang in Eurovision. It's because of their victories that they're famous.
    BoozyBabe wrote:
    Ah, I was only taking the mickey anyways!!

    (Obviously not Brian Kennedy's though!):p
    He wouldn't want you touching his mickey anyway, he's gay. :p


    Anyway, let's not count our chickens before they hatch. He's a good live performer and if the song is at least decent, we might actually do well for the first time in years.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,612 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    Has 'Your a Star' been ditched ?
    Good news at last.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,390 ✭✭✭galwaydude


    whatever happened to those terrible twins that represented ireland well made of a holy show of themselves ahem in the eurovision.


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