I'm assuming it was in the Swiss reaction to getting 12 points - something off-air that Graham may have heard. We, the UK, need to get a point to do better than the last Contest as we scored nul points in 2019. Might add up not even bettering that. Hilarious scoring nowt - we can't do worse!
The Swiss boy is quite sweet. Looks like he's got a good chance of winning.
I hope so if he was the one that swore. I only heard "oh my God" from someone alongside him - hardly worth Graham apologising for. At 11.25pm for goodness sake (which he did acknowledge)! What is this: 1971? Not 2021? Mind you, with me going back to the past and being old-fashioned tonight. Amusing to hear Graham of all people that uses plenty of Fs himself on his own show giving an apology for something I didn't see or hear.
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Whether we liked Euro or not, we could have watched Glastonbury for free. Their live stream failed earlier, for which people had paid £20. It's been made available to everyone for nowt here: watch.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/livestream-1/backup/livestream1.html (perfectly legit. as BBC news website has linked to it.)
Of course I shouldn't be linking to this given my 'disagreement' a few years ago! I don't know whether it will be available for you if you return here in daytime, but available for me now for the next five hours.
After the awful year that Italy has been through the win is bittersweet for them. Hosting the contest next year will bring them much needed tourism, but the event costs a fortune and I don't think their economy is in a good place at the moment.
The song itself was poor in comparison to others, a lot of voters must have zigged when they should have zagged.
Nil points. I agree with Katie Price - it's funny. I'd been misled (not by Katie Price, probably by myself instead) as the UK didn't get nil points in 2019 - apparently we got 11 - but nil points was our lowest score before (Jemini in 2003) that we had to beat. And we didn't.
I’ve heard excerpts from our entry several times but when I tried listening to it all the way through it was really grating on me. Probably a good sign!
Though what perturbs me there now is not the music (one of my favourite records of all time that I've heard) but the fact the artist's name is given as one word. When this record came out in 1999 (top 40 pop chart music - number 39), the artist was styled as Solar Stone and therefore, to me, revising that now is inaccurate. Such things do stand out for me on the spectrum! It was elsewhere on the website earlier and I think as "Radio Edit" there, I can't find the relevant page that is exactly the same record so may have been taken down and of course I have it as Solar Stone's Atlantis Edit and not as Solarstone's [sic] Atlantis Radio [sic] Edit - so the addition of the word "Radio" also creates an inaccuracy now I realise the 1999 CDs don't have that word in their descriptions of this track. It is not correct. They are not right.
It was the same week that Bedrock reached number 35, as everyone will remember(!). Although in fact I'd become tired of how often I was hearing Bedrock (Heaven Scent) up until then although actually listening to the radio version more recently, that would have been on the Top 40, and it now seems a better record than it was at the time. Played it as well a number of times recently, a bit like I got onto Lost Witness' Happiness Happening (Lange Radio Edit) and the original radio edit of Red Sun Rising (as opposed to the Lange Remix or Lange radio edit that I was listening to at the time) a bit after they had gone into the charts for a week or two.
Nothing to do with Eurovision, just what those mentions of the number of cities now in the running in relation to it made me think.