Surely the nerves are wrecking the rest of yiz too? Only for the taigs in the UK, Ireland could have been receiving their first nil points ever....Switzerland for me......
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/eurovision/2007/contestants/
Ukraine & Andorra ew for me
Jaysus our song sounds as if a drunken trad band got Phoebe to record Smelly Cat with them.
Ahev withdrawn my watching services this year as thon Dervish bint cant sing, and the songs shite. Malachi Cush was robbed of the chance to sing in Eurovision and Shay Healy the chance to write in it. Agh sure whats another year!
Quote from: realredhandfan on May 09, 2007, 08:33:23 AM
Ahev withdrawn my watching services this year as thon Dervish bint cant sing, and the songs shite. Malachi Cush was robbed of the chance to sing in Eurovision and Shay Healy the chance to write in it. Agh sure whats another year!
Bring back Johnny L
Israels is nuts
the guy looks like Harry Hill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpWYFoSrmRA
Haven't heard the Irish song yet, but in all fairness, it couldn't be half as bad as the easyjet-english entry!!!!
It's f**king brutal! ;)
This thread is usually my favourite GAA board thread every year. This year I think we are going to plumb new depths, no ballad and no balladeer, these were the attributes that made Logan, Healy, Dana, and Martin household European names for one night only. I used to sit behind O Neill (farting) in English class, singing to myself ......why me!
Quote from: realredhandfan on May 09, 2007, 12:12:18 PM
I used to sit behind O Neill
Just the way you like it RRHF
The English song this year is a f**king joke - making a complete cnut of themselves - brilliant
Ireland wont do much better than them - pure sh1t
It is all about politics now anyway, the less of your neighbours you p1ss off the better chance you have
Does anyone else kind of like the Irish song
I am ashamed to say I do :-\
Yer wan does sound a bit like a t**ker though
Obviously not a competition to be taken too seriously.....but that has to be up with some of Ireland's worst ever entries.....the lead singer is crap, the group look awkward at best, surely this will land Ireland back into the relegation zone for next year.
As for the UK....enough said.
Load of cheesey Oirish muck.
http://www.eurovision.tv/addons/mediaplayer/video/ire.html (http://www.eurovision.tv/addons/mediaplayer/video/ire.html)
Pity as Dervish had a fairly good reputation before this...
Edit: kind of grows on you after a few listens.... Arraghhhh...
I don't actually think its all that bad but I'm used to hearing Dervish and would be biased towards them. Was surprised when I heard they were going to do the Irish song. Anyway, at least we're not doing a mini pageant like the coutries that win it tend to do.
I think our entry is fantastic- hits all the right notes any song that can mention Lisadell and Latvia in the one line and talk about stopping black ;)birds and bees sting must be a contender ;)
I'm sure the Latvian population in Lisadell will be ringing in the votes!
Aisy now f/b
SWITZERLAND
DJ BOBO - Vampires Are Alive
Get your house on it now!
Impress your mates by knowing all the words:
The curtain has been raised
The wall no longer stands
And from Lisadell to Latvia
We're singing as one clan
The curtain has been raised
And Europe's all one stage
And the archipelagic icicles
Have melted like the cage
We don't need no party
Just a party band
A continental choir
Singing hand in hand
They might scare the blackbird
But they cannot stop him sing
They may steal the honey
But they'll never steal the sting
They may crush the flowers
Trample every living thing
But they can't stop the spring
They might scare the blackbird
But they cannot stop him sing
They may steal the honey
But they'll never steal the sting
They may crush the flowers
Trample every living thing
But they can't stop the spring
They might scare the blackbird
But they cannot stop him sing
They may steal the honey
But they'll never steal the sting
They may crush the flowers
Trample every living thing
But they can't stop the spring
And Johnny Foreigner's getting uptight about the Irish entry....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio2/F6718697?thread=3934948&skip=0&show=20
QuoteAnd the archipelagic icicles
Have melted like the cage
That band with those lyrics should guarantee a Father Ted style failure which will keep us all happy, because we know of course that we could win it easily if we wanted. ;)
It was rumoured that RTÉ wanted Brian Cowan singing ' My lovely horse ' while wearing a Liz Hurley style evening dress but apparently he wasn't available and they went for Dervish. Still, as we say in Mayo, there's always next year.
Saw a small preview of the Russian entry and im gonna put a tenner on them,the song was ok but the three quare ones singing it were fine things a bit like Girls Aloud
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-iRycwiynI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-iRycwiynI)
Switzerland didn't make it through to the final. Travesty.
Quote from: aontroim on May 09, 2007, 03:28:33 PM
SWITZERLAND
DJ BOBO - Vampires Are Alive
Get your house on it now!
Quote from: ONeill on May 10, 2007, 11:28:07 PM
Switzerland didn't make it through to the final. Travesty.
Glad i didn't put my house on it
Which countries made it through to rhe final?
Harry Hills version of push the button for Israel didnt make it either!
John 'Everyone's Agin Me' Waters must have been watching Fr. Ted before he wrote this ...
Is that John Waters from the Irish Times/Hot Press?
paddy power were offering betting in running on the semi final last night.
A friend of mine backed Belarus last night as 4/1 after hearing the performance. The results however were called out in random order and knowone knows who topped the vote. Surely Paddy Power must have known the format for the semi final, i wonder was it another one of their publicity stunts??? anyone know is the thursday night results announced after the final has taken place?
Serbia were excellent last night. Dark horses.
I see the Dutch are calling on Western Euros to boycott it as the Eastern countries voted for each other and got through.
Quote from: The Real Laoislad on May 10, 2007, 10:46:26 PM
Saw a small preview of the Russian entry and im gonna put a tenner on them,the song was ok but the three quare ones singing it were fine things a bit like Girls Aloud
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-iRycwiynI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-iRycwiynI)
Well knock me down with a f**king feather, Laoislad you may be onto something there (cant believe I am agreeing with you about women)
Few raunchy layrics in it & they look fine, therefore appealing to the hornballs among us
What price are the bitches?
QuoteIs that John Waters from the Irish Times/Hot Press?
Fraid so Donagh!
Ireland: Sunflower and new dress
Ireland's 2007 representatives DERVISH were the third to go on stage in Helsinki, rehearsing for the second time. Front singer Cathy JORDAN promised at the press conference yesterday that she would try out different dresses in order to find out, which one would suit the stage and background the best. Today Cathy wore another traditional Irish dress in white and dark-red colours. Various backgrounds were tried out: the new addition on the LED projectors was a huge sunflower, which unfolds during the very beginning of the performance. This of course resembles the upcoming of spring and works beautifully with the song's title: They Can't Stop The Spring.
Cathy's voice performance was stronger than yesterday, and she was on stage barefoot. During the Irish entry steady cameras are used a lot, but also the spider camera is in use, flowing over the audience towards the stage. Estimated from the applause from the present delegations and the accredited press, Ireland seems ready for the Final on 12th May.
(http://www.eurovision.tv/images/stories/galleries/Rehearsals_Tuesday_morning/images/dsc_9310.jpg)
(http://www.eurovision.tv/images/stories/galleries/Rehearsals_Tuesday_morning/images/dsc_9353.jpg)
(http://www.eurovision.tv/images/stories/galleries/Rehearsals_Tuesday_morning/images/dsc_9369.jpg)
Cant see us getting the prize, even if we are really good, havent heard our song so cant comment on that, sure nowadays it seems as if the countries are voting for their neighbouring countries or just voting for the most stupid act!! Pity it has gone to this! Switzerland probably should have got through the other night, could be just another example!
Quote from: full back on May 11, 2007, 11:25:08 AM
Quote from: The Real Laoislad on May 10, 2007, 10:46:26 PM
Saw a small preview of the Russian entry and im gonna put a tenner on them,the song was ok but the three quare ones singing it were fine things a bit like Girls Aloud
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-iRycwiynI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-iRycwiynI)
Well knock me down with a f**king feather, Laoislad you may be onto something there (cant believe I am agreeing with you about women)
Few raunchy layrics in it & they look fine, therefore appealing to the hornballs among us
What price are the bitches?
:D :D :D :D
10/1 with paddypower.ie
Quote from: ONeill on May 11, 2007, 10:47:05 AM
Serbia were excellent last night. Dark horses.
I see the Dutch are calling on Western Euros to boycott it as the Eastern countries voted for each other and got through.
Too right O'Neill, since the Easterners started voting for SH!TE the vaguely aveage hasn't a shot anymore. Eastern European taste in Music is crap, look at Polands entry it was talking, not singing or rap, they would have been better singing in Polish and not mauling a crap song in Pigeon English
The Ukraine entry looks like the bastard child of Elton John and Su Pollard!
http://www.eurovision.tv/addons/mediaplayer/video/ukr.html (http://www.eurovision.tv/addons/mediaplayer/video/ukr.html)
So, basically, the BBC and RTE entries will be relying on each others viewers for points again this year by the looks of it.
The Western Europeans and the Brits in particular look upon this as a light-hearted joke, whereas the Eastern ones treat it as if they have arrived on the world stage. Coupled with similar linguistic and cultural likenesses, and the plethora of new countries from break-ups (USSR, Yugo and Czechoslovakia), all Eastern influences, the change in the contest is there for all to see - it's an Eastern Europe carve-up. Also, until the mid 1990s, each country had to sing in one of its official languages, now they don't. That used to mean that the British and Irish entries had a bit of an advantage, because many Europeans had a reasonable understanding of English, especially sung English. That advantage has now gone.
The money that the BBC (UK taxpyers) puts into subsidising this crap could pay for good drama, etc. Some other European countries dont bother with it any more, time to pull the plug after tonight, and RTE could do worse than to pull-out with the BBC.
Does anyone actually watch the full programme, or do they just wait for the voting. Although it should be remembered that RTE used to treat the Irish wins as something between an Olympic Gold Medal and a World Cup Final. Some of the Eastern European countries are just where we were a few years ago. If by some accident Ireland ever win it again, I can see a bandwagon of huge proportion being created by RTE. :-[ :-[ :-[
Ever since the voting was taken away from a 'panel of experts' within each country and replaced by a money making scheme of phone-ins, the best song stopped winning.
Here, some deadly innuendos in thon UK entry....
Yes, I watch her all from start to finito. Usually seeing trebles by the end though. Great party.
God that Brit song is pish, Nil points please.
Quote from: ziggysego on May 12, 2007, 03:20:36 PM
The Ukraine entry looks like the bastard child of Elton John and Su Pollard!
http://www.eurovision.tv/addons/mediaplayer/video/ukr.html (http://www.eurovision.tv/addons/mediaplayer/video/ukr.html)
Ziggy your right, theres a bit of Tellytubby in there as well
Prediction:
Ireland to score between 30-40
UK to score 80-90
Right
whos gonna win? just the country, gonna think about it and post later.
1. Serbia
2. Sweden
3. drag queen
The Ruskies
How come UK are shorter odds than Ireland to win it yet head-to-head Ireland are favourites to beat them?
An oversight?
http://www.paddypower.com/bet?action=go_type&category=SPECIALS&ev_class_id=44&ev_type_id=437&promo=nov_EUROVISION&crea=lnk
Ireland are on now :o
Its pish poor
Thought she looked as nervous as hell,and it was so obvious they weren't playing the instruments
I couldn't make out some of the words she was singing,It got a good reaction from the audience though
That Irish performance was awful fake but the Europeans love that type of folk music. They could do really well!
Check out the legs on the Macedonian singer :o :o :o
Dervish. An amateur singing performance with seriously dodgy intonation, a truly awful song. We'll either win or get null points
Jazes we are all sad feckers.
That Dervish performance was muck of the lowest order.
Shamrock you should be in bed you have a big game tomorrow you'll have to be fresh!!
Go Russia that lead singer is gorgeous :o
"Put a cherry on it and taste my cherry pie" Oh yes how i would love to :-[
Russian Lyrics
It's a dirty money track
Yeah
Girls kick the flow!
Listen to me
All my girls get ready
We'll make it easy
When I catch you picking me
You better get a chill
Boy you wanna take on me
Cuz I'm your killing pill
Can't you see the way I move
My dress my flashy skin
Listen up you know I got
The place you've never been :o 8)
Slow down
Boy you don't wanna let me down
You better stop you know what!
Oh! Don't call me funny bunny
I'll blow your money money
I'll get you to my bad ass spinning for you
Oh! I'll make it easy honey
I'll take your money yummy
I've got my bitches standing up next to me
So come and check it
So come and check it
So come and check it
My bad ass spinning for you (2x)
Watch out!
Keep on taking over you
It's kinda getting free
Baby boy you know I still
Got sexy freak in me
Gotta tease you nasty guy
So take it don't be shy
Put your cherry on my cake
And taste my cherry pie
Maybe I'll take you with me tonight
Maybe you'll show me another way
And find a reason for me to stay
But something I must tell you!
Feel my vibration
Russian Babes
(http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m266/laoislad/serebro-eurovision-rusia.jpg)
there a bit raunchy lyrics.
see the tellytubbies are on now
UK singing on behalf of Ryanair next
hope that doesnt win. its an annoying little ditty
Pull Suck Blow Jaysis who wrote them lyrics :-\
Liked the Russian entry lads ;)
Macedonia one had a great set of pins on her, good man Terry W, told us to watch out for them
Great to see the UK entry was shite, makin a show of them
Go Romania
reminds me of the end of a wedding, all up dancing to the Blues Brothers or something.
your woman needs a good slappin "On a scale of 9 to 10, how beautiful am i"
The Montenegrins top 4 is Slovenia, Macedonia and Serbia. Why did they bother breaking up Yugoslavia if they are all such pals!
Two votes in.... Fcuk Ireland would need to move its self somewhere between Moldovia and Romania to get any points!!!!!
I put 20 each way on Russia
Fingers crossed for Top 3........
Scottish independence would help out with the Irish vote!
Quote from: The Real Laoislad on May 12, 2007, 10:40:31 PM
I put 20 each way on Russia
Fingers crossed for Top 3........
I think your bet is safe, also think that we are nailed on for last, as Tel said "we stuck the finger in our own eye"!!
Fuckin Brits didn't even give us a vote
best looking woman all night was the voter from Iceland, one hell of a good looking woman indeed.
Quote from: The Real Laoislad on May 12, 2007, 11:00:19 PM
Fuckin Brits didn't even give us a vote
They invariably do - that they didn't shows how awful it was. It must be the worst Irish entry ever, embarrassing. The UK's was awful too.
I stand by my earlier comments - time for the BBC and RTE to ditich this garbage, it's a waste of the licence fees and taking part only encourages them.
Bring back Johnny Logan :D
Quote from: Square Ball on May 12, 2007, 11:04:20 PM
best looking woman all night was the voter from Iceland, one hell of a good looking woman indeed.
Agreed
The Serbian singer looks like Hayley from Coronation Street
Quote from: GweylTah on May 12, 2007, 11:06:04 PM
Quote from: The Real Laoislad on May 12, 2007, 11:00:19 PM
Fuckin Brits didn't even give us a vote
They invariably do - that they didn't shows how awful it was. It must be the worst Irish entry ever, embarrassing. The UK's was awful too.
I stand by my earlier comments - time for the BBC and RTE to ditich this garbage, it's a waste of the licence fees and taking part only encourages them.
You could be right about bailing out. Either that or bring back Johnny ;D
f**king Brits absolute shite did better than us, says it all
Quote from: Square Ball on May 12, 2007, 11:04:20 PM
best looking woman all night was the voter from Iceland, one hell of a good looking woman indeed.
She was a stunner alright! :o
Quote from: Louth Exile on May 12, 2007, 11:13:49 PM
Quote from: GweylTah on May 12, 2007, 11:06:04 PM
Quote from: The Real Laoislad on May 12, 2007, 11:00:19 PM
Fuckin Brits didn't even give us a vote
They invariably do - that they didn't shows how awful it was. It must be the worst Irish entry ever, embarrassing. The UK's was awful too.
I stand by my earlier comments - time for the BBC and RTE to ditich this garbage, it's a waste of the licence fees and taking part only encourages them.
You could be right about bailing out. Either that or bring back Johnny ;D
f**king Brits absolute shite did better than us, says it all
Absolute wan*ers the Brits, they could have at least given us a sympathy vote!!!
We screwed ourselves, gave them 7, then gave the Lithuanians 12!! plus the Lativans 10, non of the feckers gave us anything, not even the Romanians or Poles!!!!
Ourselves and Malta saved what was the worst song in the contest, from getting Nil points.
God bless Albania!
So many Lithuanians and Latvians here no wonder they got them points
Why didn't the Norn Iron boys here not mass vote for Ireland?
That said it was an awful song, performed badly and the fact that only Albania voted for it speaks volumes.
Poor ole Dervish. An unwanted stigma.
QuoteWhy didn't the Norn Iron boys here not mass vote for Ireland?
they are too tight to spend the 20p for the text!
Quote from: Shamrock Shore on May 13, 2007, 12:04:08 AM
Why didn't the Norn Iron boys here not mass vote for Ireland?
That said it was an awful song, performed badly and the fact that only Albania voted for it speaks volumes.
The RTE entry is usually good, and usually gets points from the UK, probably helped by votes from NI.
But is was absolutely awful - the Brits entry took the piss, and back-fired, Dervish was just an awful, awful entry.
Didn't see the contest last night, though there's little point these days as although its not a competition to take too seriously anyway, it's became a carve-up amongst Eastern European and Scandinavian counties, along with the obligatory Greece-Cyprus back-slapping.
A little bit surprised that the Swiss entry didn't even make the final, DJ Bobo has been a major chart act in mainland Europe now for some 12-13 years.
The BBC, France Televisions, TVE (Spain) and ARD (Germany) together fund the majority of the contest, were these four countries to pull out, like the RAI in Italy has done, the contest would be finished. Even if it continues the voting system needs an overhaul.
So disappointing yesterday, shocked the UK gave us absolutely nothing, this is the worst we've been at in the competion ever, LAST!!! Need I say anymore.
Quote from: Redgreenery on May 13, 2007, 10:05:34 PM
So disappointing yesterday, shocked the UK gave us absolutely nothing, this is the worst we've been at in the competion ever, LAST!!! Need I say anymore.
Actually, we didn't even qualify a few years ago.
Quote from: ziggysego on May 13, 2007, 10:07:06 PM
Quote from: Redgreenery on May 13, 2007, 10:05:34 PM
So disappointing yesterday, shocked the UK gave us absolutely nothing, this is the worst we've been at in the competion ever, LAST!!! Need I say anymore.
Actually, we didn't even qualify a few years ago.
Yeah but I mean in the final of the competition.
Everybody knows its a load of s**** and watches the scoring for the political connotations, but how stupid are people to text in and give those english f****** any points.
Only two countries vioted for them, Ireland and Malta. Has this fact eluded anyone? Or maybe everyone is listening to that p***k Ray Darcy and his pc bullshit about our "neighbours". I just can't understand why people in Ireland would vote for that s****, please someone tell me
so has a new word been introduced/redefined?
Dervish: completley f*%K up
as in
Jeez they made a complete devish of it.
or
it all went dervish after that
Where does the career of Dervish go from here.....it is an awful stigma to carry from now on, no matter what they do, the Eurovision will always haunt them. I'd say RTE will have a problem getting any recognised performer to take part next year.
Heard on the radio this morning that Johnny Logan is 5/1 favourite with the bookies to represent Ireland in 2008. ::)
It was a clever plot by FF and their Castlerea stooge to divert attebntion from Bertie's financial foosterings, by manufacturing an even bigger national crisis.
I heard some senior RTÉ executive this morning, summoned by Morning Ireland to account for this national embarrassment and to explain at once what she was going to do about it. I was delighted to learn of her grasp of the situation and reassured that as long as these people are in charge, there's no chance of us ever being saddled with hosting this tripe again. For example, she pointed to the fact that Ireland gave big votes to Latvia and Lithuania as evidence that Irish people were in the forefront of the new eastward movement in European pop!
Finger on the pulse or what?
irish entry was a complete joke and made a fool of the irish people... (IMHO)
all that was needed was a bit of this..... ::)
Malachi Cush was robbed and youse all know it now. :-*
Watching the eurovision on saturday i couldn't help getting the feeling that as a nation we are going a bit soft on the English..... Was it not always the first commandments of being Irish that "thou shalll not vote for the Brits in the Eurovision"...
What did we expect with John Waters writing our entry and writing it about the Prague Spring too ffs.
All a bit high-brow for the Eurovision when you need some boom-bang-a-bang type lyrics sung by some Amazonian sex Goddesses with legs up to their armpits or a gang of Mad Max rejects.
Maybe we should just do the dignified thing like the Italians and pull out altogether.
Or put the Wolfe Tones in it like Finland last year.
(Hint about the vote for Britain - as mentioned above, Latvia and Lithuania got big votes from Ireland too. If Poland had been in it, they'd have got the deuze points. The only other country that voted for Britain was Malta. There's more Brits than Maltesers in Malta.)
Quote from: hectorsheroes on May 14, 2007, 10:45:15 AM
Everybody knows its a load of s**** and watches the scoring for the political connotations, but how stupid are people to text in and give those english f****** any points.
Only two countries vioted for them, Ireland and Malta. Has this fact eluded anyone? Or maybe everyone is listening to that p***k Ray Darcy and his pc bullshit about our "neighbours". I just can't understand why people in Ireland would vote for that s****, please someone tell me
Too be honest i doubt anyone did vote for them i reckon RTE just gave them the points regardless of what the text vote results were
Malta slates Eurovision's voting
Malta has called for phone votes in certain countries to be scrapped at the Eurovision Song Contest until they can be monitored more closely.
Robert Abela, who headed Malta's contingent, said many results were "not based solely on the public vote".
He added "five or six" other countries during Saturday's contest were angered by block voting - where neighbours back each other regardless of the song.
Serbia's Marija Serifovic won the contest, watched by 10.9m in the UK.
The show, which was broadcast on BBC One on Saturday night, drew 50.8% of the viewing share.
Scooch
Britain's votes plummeted with the invasion of Iraq
Paul Gambaccini
Mr Abela said he had received some reports indicating how many points Malta would get from certain countries even before the semi-finals, which saw Malta knocked out of the contest.
"If the EBU (European Broadcasting Union) cannot 100% monitor how the system is being done in some of the ex-Soviet countries, I think they should do away with (phone voting)," he said.
"I know it is not 100% tele-voting, and I personally believe these countries are messing with them."
He said he would be willing to approach the EBU, along with several other countries, to take action over the "block voting".
He also confirmed that the 12 points Malta awarded UK entry Scooch - over half their final total - was a protest at the way so many countries vote for their neighbours.
Criticism has also surfaced in Germany where local tabloid newspaper Bild questioned why Western European countries should pay the largest amount for a competition they seem have no chance of winning.
Malta's Eurovision entry
Olivia Lewis performed Vertigo for Malta at the contest
It quoted singer Nicole, Germany's sole Eurovision winner, as saying: "It is obvious that Eastern European countries engage in dirty trade with points every year.
"Germany should withdraw from the competition."
The EBU were unavailable for comment.
BBC DJ Paul Gambaccini told Radio 4's Today programme he thought about half of the voting was for political reasons.
He said: "Britain's votes plummeted with the invasion of Iraq and have stayed in the basement with the occupation.
"It may be the strangest reason for ending a war but if you want to win the Eurovision Song Contest again, bring the boys home."
He added: "There has always been a political dimension to Eurovision, the love-fest between Greece and Cyprus has been noted for a long time.
"Now with the public voting instead of the panel voting it is really extensive."
'No borders'
Sir Terry Wogan, who commentates for BBC One on the contest each year, told the BBC News website on Saturday he was genuinely aggrieved at the political machinations of the competition's voting.
"It's a pity it's not about the songs any more," he said.
"There's a definite Baltic bloc and a Balkan bloc and they've been joined in recent years by a Russian bloc.
"I've said it so many times it has become a cliche. We won the Cold War but we lost the Eurovision."
Marija Serifovic said she did not think about these issues: "I don't know anything about politics, I'm just a singer.
"There are no borders for music. The only important thing in my life is music."
Even with Malta's protest vote the UK entry, Scooch, finished joint 22nd out of 24.