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It was about the only thing that was any good on SNL last night. The cast are super talented but they were let down by the material.
Hope you’re all enjoying a sufficiently restful or productive Bank Holiday weekend, depending on what you need.
Snooker tickets for next year were bought quickly and easily enough yesterday, thank goodness. The price seems to creep up year on year, but then I suppose it costs quite a bit to keep Rob Walker in waistcoats and lacquer.
That aside, the other project successfully crossed off has been to start recovering as many of my previous Eurovision pieces as possible from whichever active and dead parts of cyberspace I’d scattered them previously, and stick them all in the one place on my blog. Digital preservation in action? My colleagues at the library will be pleased.
Anyhoo. I’m sure these all enjoy little more than curiosity status given the Contests in question have all passed, but feel free to have a gander if you want reminding of the highs and lows of the previous five years (plus 2017). I’m sure I’ve done more than these, though – will keep looking.
That Eurovision Postmortem – 2017
That Eurovision Postmortem – 2021
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Israel have drifted bug time in the market
I was going to say bombed but thought better of it…
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I believe it’s semi final on Thursday, in place of Race Across The World, which got moved to Wednesday. Not watched Eurovision since Terry Wogan’s days.
You've got to accentuate the positive.
Eliminate the negative.
Latch on to the affirmative.
Don't mess with mister in between.Hope you all had as lovely and productive a weekend as you’d wished for.
Me? I sat down and, um, accidentally wrote a review of all of the Eurovision songs.
It’s almost certainly too long, and full of questionable takes, but then that’s my writing generally (I’ll say it before any of you do😜).
It’s almost certainly also the only Eurovision review that namechecks all of John Shuttleworth, Junior Wimbledon, Cardiacs, Arkle, Stewart Lee, Adamski, ParkRun, Bunny vs Monkey and the official motto of Rutland, though. Because you’re worth it and I care.
Feel free to agree with as much or as little of it as you fancy. See also if you can guess which song is my favourite (not entirely clear) and which has annoyed me more than any other in 45 years of watching (not at all unclear)!
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Moldova, Sweden, Croatia, Greece, Finland, Israel, Poland, Serbia, Lithuania and Estonia in a Semi Final 1 qualifying acca
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Israel have drifted bug time in the market
I read somewhere that there’s a lower limit on the number of votes an individual can cast in the public ballot. Wonder if that’s got anything to do with it.
Apparently, the number of times any one person can vote has been reduced from twenty to ten.
Not sure why it isn’t one. 🤷♂️
Personally I thought Montenegro was very good.. The performance was best of the night for me
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I had Portugal to qualify instead of Estonia, but the end result is the same – nine out of ten.
The quality of quite a few performances was down on the equivalents in the entrants’ respective national finals – nerves, or technical issues, perhaps? – and I’m clutching my each-way slip with Lithuania stamped on it somewhat more nervously as a result. You could clearly hear Lion trying to shout his way out of trouble towards the end of his piece.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Tonight’s 10 acca
Romania, Denmark, Australia, Ukraine, Albania, Malta, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Cyprus and Luxembourg
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Nine out of ten again – nice work, sir!
I had Armenia through instead of Cyprus, the latter of whom can consider herself highly fortunate to make the final after by far the worst vocal performance of either semi (following similar in front of the juries, I understand).
As to who wins the whole thing? Pass. Moldova and (especially) Australia had the momentum in the betting the last I checked, but whether it’s sufficient in either case to usurp Finland is moot.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
That Music List #254 compiles my personal faves from Eurovisions 2019-2026, including Daði Freyr, Käärijä, Circus Mircus, Joost Klein, Serhat, Voyager, Erika Vikman, Zalagasper, Maro, Baby Lasagna, Tautumeitas, Keiino, Sal Da Vinci, Lion Ceccah, Gåte and more.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
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