EUROVISION THE BIG FINAL IS HERE. FOLLOW THE ACTION LIVE AS IT HAPPENS AT GRUMPY OLD BLOGGERS. FOR COMMENTARY THEY CAN'T BROADCAST CHECK BACK THROUGHOUT THE CONTEST FOR LIVE UPDATES ON EACH ENTRY AS IT HAPPENS.
Russia here are still favorites going into the final.
Sweden have entered three lumberjacks lady football players who are also well fancied to do well.
British hopeful Andy thinks his song has a great chance.
How will the Grumpy Old Blogger score it?
Find out here the show starts at 8.00pm
The grumpy scoring method has been simplified for the live blog.The highly complex statistical method with expedential smoothing has been replaced by MARKS OUT OF TEN .
Ten (10) would be good enough to make you leap up and down.
One (1) would be bad enough to make you weep and run outside to avoid it.
Of course nil(0) zero points can be awarded if you do not like the contestants countries policy on global warming/human rights/or all the women look like men or vice versa, or any reason not to do with the actual song or performance.... see....simple. ?
Here we go.. Eurovision 2008 Belgrade last years winner(an overweight Harry Potter) opens the show.
ROMANIA ARE FIRST UP WITH A NOT QUITE IN TUNE BALLAD............. 5 POINTS.
UNITED KINGDOM GREAT SINGER AVERAGE SONG PERFORMED WELL.......7 POINTS.
ALBANIA WITH THE FIRST BARE MIDRIFF PRETTY GIRL PRETTY AVERAGE SONG.....5 POINTS.
GERMANY 4 GIRLS WITH THE WORST HARMONY EVER SPICE GIRL WANNABEES......4 POINTS.
ARMENIA TRUE EUROVISION THIS GIRL ENJOYED HER PERFORMANCE GOOD ...... 8 POINTS.
BOZNIA & HERZEGOVINA ANDY PANDY MEETS LOOBY LOU WITH A REAL CATCHY CLASSIC EUROVISION SONG COULD BE A SURPRISE CONTENDER STADIUM AUDIENCE LOVED IT....8 POINTS.
ISRAEL WRITTEN BY DANA INTERNATIONAL A FORMER WINNER ATTEMPTED POWER ANTHEM DIDN'T QUITE WORK SUNG WELL BUT NOT A WINNER.............................................. 5 POINTS.
FINLAND OH DEAR MORE GOTH ROCK GOOD ROCK VOICE LOST IN THE MESS OF NOISE....4 POINTS.
CROATIA GRUMPY OLD MEN MAKE AN ENTRY(MUST BE THE WINNER) UNFORTUNATELY ALL A BIT DATED AND FORGETABLE...........................................................................6 POINTS.
POLAND 10 SONGS IN AN ORANGE COLOURED LADY WITH OSMOND WHITE TEETH WITH A WEAK POWER BALLAD SHE LOOKED ODDLY PAINED SINGING THIS...................................5 POINTS.
ICELAND A POLISHED PERFORMANCE FROM THE BOY GIRL DUO CLICHED LYRICS COULD BE A VOTE CATCHER (FROM DENMARK)........................................................................7 POINTS.
TURKEY A GUITAR BAND HOW NOVEL. THE SONG UNFORTUNATELY IS NON-DESCRIPT...6 POINTS.
PORTUGAL 13 TO GO A VERY LARGE LADY WITH A BIG VOICE TO MATCH SADLY DRAMATIC SONGS LIKE THIS DON'T DO TOO WELL BUT A GREAT SINGER ........................................7 POINTS.
LATVIA PIRATES OF THE SEA HI HI HO...... JACK SPARROW IT ISN'T AND ADAM ANT DID IT YEARS AGO A GOOD GOING SONG HI HI HEY COULD STEAL A FEW VOTES ....... 8 POINTS
SWEDEN HERO WHY DO I FEEL I'VE HEARD THIS BEFORE WHAT A SPOOKY LOOKING LADY NOT THE STANDARD WE EXPECT FROM SWEDEN EVEN WITH THE KEY CHANGE AT THE END...........8 POINTS.
DENMARK CATCHY TUNE FROM A NORMAN WISDOM LOOKALIKE MORE SHOW SONG THAN EUROVISION WILL PICK UP VOTES FROM FRIENDS OF DENMARK.................................8 POINTS.
GEORGIA STRANGELY DRESSED SUN GLASS WEARING LADY WITH A DEPRESSING DIRGE OF A SONG THE COSTUME CHANGE WAS THE BEST BIT..................................................................6 POINTS.
UKRAINE 18 IN AND NOTHING STANDS OUT SO FAR HOTLY TIPPED SHE LOOKS GOOD SINGS GOOD MAYBE A RUNNER AS THE VOTES COME IN............................................................ 8 POINTS.
FRANCE THEIR BEST CHANCE FOR A LONG TIME SAY THE FRENCH LADIES WITH FALSE BEARDS NOT THE BEST OF STARTS MRS GRUMPYOLDBLOGGER LIKES THIS A LOT........................8 POINTS+(PLUS)
AZERBAIJAN DRAMATIC FALSETTO START FROM ANGELS WITH WINE POURED OVER A DANCING DEVIL WHO KNOWS WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT BUT THE CROWD WENT WILD .......................7 POINTS.
GREECE MID PERFORMANCE COSTUME CHANGES ARE THE THING THIS YEAR A BRITNEY COPY IF EVER WE SAW ONE NOT BAD COULD BE A CONTENDER.........................................8 POINTS.
SPAIN WEIRDEST PERFORMANCE OF THE NIGHT A TRULY STRANGE GUY WITH THE WORST DANCERS EVER REPETETIVE RUBBISH OUR FIRST NIL POINT OF THE SHOW WELL DESERVED TOO...................................................................................................0 POINTS.
SERBIA AND WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME FOR A BLOW OUT WINNER TO EMERGE THIS WELL SUNG FOLKY BALLAD DOESN'T SOUND LIKE OUR..............6 POINTS.
RUSSIA COULD OF COURSE WIN THE POLITICAL VOTE THE FIDDLE PLAYER IS GREAT WHAT ARE THE SINGERS BARE FEET ABOUT AND AN ICE SKATER ?????NOT A BAD SONG WELL DONE .......7 POINTS.
NORWAY LAST SONG MRS GRUMPY SANG ALONG TO THIS...SO THAT SAYS SOMETHING NO GIMMICKS HERE JUST A POLISHED PERFORMANCE COULD BE A BALTIC WINNER?..........................................................................................8POINTS.
WITH THE HIGHEST STANDARD OF ENTRIES IN MANY A YEAR WE DO NOT HAVE A CLEAR WINNER BUT THE GRUMPOLDBLOGGERS FAVOUR THE UKRAINE MRS GRUMPY SAYS FRANCE SO WE COULD USE A DECIDING VOTE OR EVEN YOUR FAVOURITE WHO IS YOUR WINNER?????
WELL WE STARTED THE LIVE BLOG EVER HOPEFUL THAT THE BLATANT POLITICAL VOTING WOULD NOT TURN IT INTO A FARCE. HOW WRONG COULD WE BE.
RUSSIA ARE THE WINNERS. MAYBE DESERVEDLY SO, BUT AS IT HAS CEASED TO BE A SONG CONTEST WE DO WONDER IF THERE IS ANY POINT IN ENTERING IN THE FIRST PLACE WHEN POLITICAL VOTING MEANS THE PROSPECTS OF DOING WELL ARE ALMOST ZERO REGARDLESS OF HOW GOOD YOUR SONG/ARTIST ARE. MAYBE IRELAND WERE WISE TO ENTER A TURKEY PUPPET?
RUMOUR HAS IT THAT THE WORD WENT OUT "ITS RUSSIA'S TURN" SO THEY NOW HAVE THEIR FIRST EUROVISION WIN. HOW LONG CAN THE FARCE GO ON ????????
YAY for the Grumpy Eurovision blog!
Posted by: Amber | May 24, 2008 at 03:56 PM
While I admit that Spain's song was horrible, a bit of context may help.
That performer is not a musician, he's a comedian in one of the late night shows here. He's always dressing up as exaggerated characters and doing short skits.
Somehow the show decided to use one of his recurring characters and to make an entry for Eurovision, as an extended joke I suppose.
The last thing anyone expected was that, using the power of the internets, the song would be embraced by all those people in Spain who are sick of never winning because we just don't have enough neighbours.
Or, to put it simply, Spain sent the kind of song it thought Eurovision was worth.
Funny how France and Ireland had similar ideas...
Maybe if next year all of the "loser" countries send similarly stupid songs, Eurovision organisers will finally get the message.
Posted by: C | May 28, 2008 at 12:11 PM