Welcome and bienvenue to Eurovision 2015! This year's contest will be held on the 19th, 21st and 23rd of May in Vienna, a city of former imperial glory and statues of dudes who punch horses.
If you clicked on this thread, you probably know what this is all about (that is, aluminium costumes and
giant rotating hamster wheels), but here's a quick summary: the Eurovision Song Contest is a song competition held annually by the European Broadcasting Union, a union of European public service broadcasters. Each member country is eligible to enter one song to be performed live on television and radio. Generally these songs are considered to be of questionable quality or they're songs which would work in no other context.
Here's a map of all participating countries, courtesy of Wikipedia user Sims2aholic8:
red - countries in the first semi-final (19 May)
pink - finalists voting during the first semi-final
dark blue - countries in the second semi-final (21 May)
light blue - finalists voting during the second semi-final
violet - This year's special guest and Eurovision debutant,
Australia!
Where can I watch the contest, you might ask? Everything will be streamed under
http://www.eurovision.tv/. Various national TV stations will also offer commentated broadcast, with various degrees of outright disdainfulness or patriotic fervour. If nothing has changed, all shows will begin at 19:00 GMT/20:00 BST/21:00 CEST.
So please enjoy the contest and use this thread to post videos of your past favourites!
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Israel is too!
Well no
we don't want riff raff turning up now do we
Satans..... hints.....
Sure, may as well close the barn door now that the horse is out
This is awkward, didn't really think the rest of you would hear about it.
We uh...only invited our friends, you see?
.... and Russia
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
OK.
*removes Europe from Moonvision invitation list*
I want to see, oh-oh
I want to see Lasha tumbai
Look, sometimes you fall out with old friends for a while, but deep down you know that you still love each other.
Having a following outside Eurovision usually doesn't really translate into success
/obligatory
There is sorta its own culture to Eurovision
Nobody who is actually a successful popular musician would touch Eurovision with a barge pole, at least in the UK
Besides you don't win Eurovision for actually being any good
But that is sorta the area where the market is dominated by American and British artists
then they picked Guy Sebastian and it was the equivalent of running the Declaration of Independence through a shredder
I wish I could get other people in America excited about this thing
I would have a big ol' party and we'd all get drunk and laugh and laugh and laugh
Ideas:
- everyone comes as a previous year's entry.
- everyone comes as the 2011 Moldovan entry
- play exploding darts with a photo of Jedward
- invent a new national drink for every entry, you have to the end of the song to finish it
god I could do this forever
GOOD MORNING EUROVISION THREAD
Might not happen until it's all over though. The plan is to watch everything in one sitting.
I'm not mad Australia is in it, just baffled.
But yeah Guy Sebastian is an embarrassing option.
Clearly the right choice is Hilltop Hoods.
Singer in the Switzerland act.
HTTP://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys88XX7QMco