Eurovision Apocalypse
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The best, worst and weirdest from the selection stages of the Eurovision Song Contest!
Your annual reminder that just because you don't like or understand a song, it doesn't mean it's a bad song – nor are the people who voted for it the idiots you claim they are. This kind of talk reflects more upon you and your field of experience rather than being an original hot take. #eurovision
May 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Your annual reminder that just because you don't like or understand a song, it doesn't mean it's a bad song – nor are the people who voted for it the idiots you claim they are. This kind of talk reflects more upon you and your field of experience rather than being an original hot take. #eurovision
Lots of folks are putting pics of their first Eurovisions up. I can't find anything from my first two, but here's me at my third, 25 years ago, with my old pal Chicky from Ping Pong. At that point I'd never have imagined that I'd go a further 21 times!
#Eurovision
#Eurovision
May 14, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Lots of folks are putting pics of their first Eurovisions up. I can't find anything from my first two, but here's me at my third, 25 years ago, with my old pal Chicky from Ping Pong. At that point I'd never have imagined that I'd go a further 21 times!
#Eurovision
#Eurovision
Anyone got a link to that grumpy-assed moan from the Azeri singer about their non-qualification? Someone posted it up, but I can't find it now.
May 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Anyone got a link to that grumpy-assed moan from the Azeri singer about their non-qualification? Someone posted it up, but I can't find it now.
Lean in troops, the oracle has spoken. The fragrant Mrs A, after watching last night's songs, has confidently proclaimed that she hasn't seen a winner yet.
Interesting. Very interesting.
#eurovision
Interesting. Very interesting.
#eurovision
May 14, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Lean in troops, the oracle has spoken. The fragrant Mrs A, after watching last night's songs, has confidently proclaimed that she hasn't seen a winner yet.
Interesting. Very interesting.
#eurovision
Interesting. Very interesting.
#eurovision
I've been having my annual look at all the runners and riders in that Eurovision next week, and I've come to the conclusion that none of them are going to flipping win! Read here for a lot of compelling reasons, and very many niche cultural references…
oneurope.co.uk/featured/why...
#Eurovision
oneurope.co.uk/featured/why...
#Eurovision
Why Your Favourite Song Won’t Win Eurovision 2025 - Really, it won’t! - oneurope.co.uk
So here we are again, happy as can be… then thirty-seven songs of variable quality come along and spoil our Spring. So we’ve given our regular curmudgeon Roy
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May 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I've been having my annual look at all the runners and riders in that Eurovision next week, and I've come to the conclusion that none of them are going to flipping win! Read here for a lot of compelling reasons, and very many niche cultural references…
oneurope.co.uk/featured/why...
#Eurovision
oneurope.co.uk/featured/why...
#Eurovision
We've said it before and we'll doubtless say it again - fun isn't necessarily joke, you old snobs!
May 4, 2025 at 9:36 AM
We've said it before and we'll doubtless say it again - fun isn't necessarily joke, you old snobs!
The thought that a small corner of Eurovisionia are checking out the John Cage original to see how it compares amuses me mildly.
Good work #TommyCash!
#Eurovision
Good work #TommyCash!
#Eurovision
April 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The thought that a small corner of Eurovisionia are checking out the John Cage original to see how it compares amuses me mildly.
Good work #TommyCash!
#Eurovision
Good work #TommyCash!
#Eurovision
If there's one good thing that's come out of the whole sorry affair it's that we discovered that the father of Måns's now ex-wife played Herr Flick in later episodes of 'Allo 'Allo!
March 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
If there's one good thing that's come out of the whole sorry affair it's that we discovered that the father of Måns's now ex-wife played Herr Flick in later episodes of 'Allo 'Allo!
My first stab at the old Gerbear was probably to be expected - only with the occasional surprise…
March 19, 2025 at 2:11 PM
My first stab at the old Gerbear was probably to be expected - only with the occasional surprise…
Another important Eurovision calendar landmark has finally dropped. Ignore the pale imitators, go direct to the original… the one and only Mr Gerbear's Sorter!
esc.gerbear.com/sorter2025.htm
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esc.gerbear.com/sorter2025.htm
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Mr. Gerbear's Eurovision 2025 Favorites Sorter
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March 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Another important Eurovision calendar landmark has finally dropped. Ignore the pale imitators, go direct to the original… the one and only Mr Gerbear's Sorter!
esc.gerbear.com/sorter2025.htm
@gerbear.bsky.social
esc.gerbear.com/sorter2025.htm
@gerbear.bsky.social
Just found a piece on the future of voting at ESC that I wrote 7 years ago that seems even more apt today. It's clear that nations have finally worked out how to game the televote, and the current jury system is flawed. So what can we do next to ensure fairer results?
escinsight.com/2017/03/21/v...
escinsight.com/2017/03/21/v...
Maintaining Trust In The Eurovision Voting System
There have long been rumours of multiple simcards, friendly call centres and dodgy backroom jury arrangements. But in an increasingly corruptible world, how can we be sure that our winner is genuinely...
escinsight.com
March 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Just found a piece on the future of voting at ESC that I wrote 7 years ago that seems even more apt today. It's clear that nations have finally worked out how to game the televote, and the current jury system is flawed. So what can we do next to ensure fairer results?
escinsight.com/2017/03/21/v...
escinsight.com/2017/03/21/v...
I hate to break it to you now you've gone all serious and jury loving, but Finland are winning this…
#eurovision
#eurovision
March 16, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I hate to break it to you now you've gone all serious and jury loving, but Finland are winning this…
#eurovision
#eurovision
Well there's certainly a lot going on in that Georgian song. I don't dislike it at all, but there's nothing you can hang your elaborately embroidered cloak on either.
March 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Well there's certainly a lot going on in that Georgian song. I don't dislike it at all, but there's nothing you can hang your elaborately embroidered cloak on either.
Anyone manage to get a clip of that mental voting sequence from FdC last night?
Mrs A couldn't keep her eyes open and had to bail, but it bears watching in full just for the very strangeness of it all!
Mrs A couldn't keep her eyes open and had to bail, but it bears watching in full just for the very strangeness of it all!
March 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Anyone manage to get a clip of that mental voting sequence from FdC last night?
Mrs A couldn't keep her eyes open and had to bail, but it bears watching in full just for the very strangeness of it all!
Mrs A couldn't keep her eyes open and had to bail, but it bears watching in full just for the very strangeness of it all!
What the actual heck DID just happen?!
March 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM
What the actual heck DID just happen?!
We think we've done it. We think we might have found the apogee of awfulness in this thankless quest of ours. Click the link, scroll forward to 59:01, then sit down and soak it all in. San Marino - what a place!
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San Marino 2025 - Farmacy - Bæd
NOTE: CLICK ON THIS VIDEO PANEL AND GO TO 59:01 OTHERWISE YOU'LL HAVE TO WATCH THE WHOLE DANG SHOW. ALTERNATIVELY, CLICK THE LINK BELOW FOR ...
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February 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
We think we've done it. We think we might have found the apogee of awfulness in this thankless quest of ours. Click the link, scroll forward to 59:01, then sit down and soak it all in. San Marino - what a place!
eurovisionapocalypse.blogspot.com/2025/02/san-...
eurovisionapocalypse.blogspot.com/2025/02/san-...
I've just watched two Samarinese semis back-to-back. Now I'm watching Serbia S1 and everything sounds amazing. But I can't work out if they actually are amazing, or if the hours spent prior have somehow lowered my judgement threshold.
February 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I've just watched two Samarinese semis back-to-back. Now I'm watching Serbia S1 and everything sounds amazing. But I can't work out if they actually are amazing, or if the hours spent prior have somehow lowered my judgement threshold.
Folk have grudgingly decided that it's all done and dusted, and Måns has got it in the bag. But there's three unlikely blokes from a Finnish outpost singing about saunas in a language almost nobody understands who are building quite the bandwagon.
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eurovisionapocalypse.blogspot.com/2025/02/swed...
Sweden 2025 - Kaj - Bara Bada Bastu
(Click here if you fancy a good steaming…) There's a most curious subplot bubbling up in this year's Melodifestivalen. It's long been assu...
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February 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Folk have grudgingly decided that it's all done and dusted, and Måns has got it in the bag. But there's three unlikely blokes from a Finnish outpost singing about saunas in a language almost nobody understands who are building quite the bandwagon.
eurovisionapocalypse.blogspot.com/2025/02/swed...
eurovisionapocalypse.blogspot.com/2025/02/swed...
Is it just my grubby mind, or is Milkshake Man a really unsubtle metaphor for oral sex?
#dirtyeurovision2025
#dirtyeurovision2025
February 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Is it just my grubby mind, or is Milkshake Man a really unsubtle metaphor for oral sex?
#dirtyeurovision2025
#dirtyeurovision2025
If #Eurovision was held this afternoon, with only the confirmed entries performing, what would the top three be?
February 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
If #Eurovision was held this afternoon, with only the confirmed entries performing, what would the top three be?
Now I've got no beef with Måns. He's a proper gent. So it's disappointing to discover that Revolution is kinda like what would happen to Heroes if all the fun and good stuff was sifted out to leave a dry, empty husk. I'm sure it'll look great, but, y'know...
#melodifestivalen #eurovision #måns
#melodifestivalen #eurovision #måns
February 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Now I've got no beef with Måns. He's a proper gent. So it's disappointing to discover that Revolution is kinda like what would happen to Heroes if all the fun and good stuff was sifted out to leave a dry, empty husk. I'm sure it'll look great, but, y'know...
#melodifestivalen #eurovision #måns
#melodifestivalen #eurovision #måns
So Germany might be going down the medieval metal route this year if this song finds favour at home. Although perhaps they hammer home the punchline just that once or twenty times too often…
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#germany #raab #feuerschwanz #eurovision #chefsache
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#germany #raab #feuerschwanz #eurovision #chefsache
Germany 2025 - Feuerschwanz - Knightclub
(Click here if you can't see the panel above to get all medieval…) We've already lost a couple of this year's likely noisy contenders, in so...
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February 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
So Germany might be going down the medieval metal route this year if this song finds favour at home. Although perhaps they hammer home the punchline just that once or twenty times too often…
eurovisionapocalypse.blogspot.com/2025/02/germ...
#germany #raab #feuerschwanz #eurovision #chefsache
eurovisionapocalypse.blogspot.com/2025/02/germ...
#germany #raab #feuerschwanz #eurovision #chefsache
Calling all "Doctor Who's gone w*ke!" peddlers. All you're telling me is that you either never actually watched it, or that you were too young/dumb to understand the subtexts. The stuff you think you're calling out runs right through the show from Hartnell Season 1 till now. Dopes.
#doctorwho
#doctorwho
February 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Calling all "Doctor Who's gone w*ke!" peddlers. All you're telling me is that you either never actually watched it, or that you were too young/dumb to understand the subtexts. The stuff you think you're calling out runs right through the show from Hartnell Season 1 till now. Dopes.
#doctorwho
#doctorwho
Yep, we solved the puzzle behind this most curious of all songs…
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#armenia #depievretasil #kamil #arsen #eurovision
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#armenia #depievretasil #kamil #arsen #eurovision
Armenia 2025 - Arsen feat. Kamil - Will You Marry Me?
(Click here for the strangeness if you can't see the video panel above. Then update your browser…) If, like us, you had nothing better to do...
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February 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Yep, we solved the puzzle behind this most curious of all songs…
eurovisionapocalypse.blogspot.com/2025/02/arme...
#armenia #depievretasil #kamil #arsen #eurovision
eurovisionapocalypse.blogspot.com/2025/02/arme...
#armenia #depievretasil #kamil #arsen #eurovision