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to think that we have a chance in Eurovision this year

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Polyanthus2 · 10/03/2022 18:46

news.sky.com/story/eurovision-tiktok-singing-sensation-sam-ryder-will-perform-for-uk-with-track-space-man-12562140

Good looking and a good voice - I'm not on tiktok so this singer is new to me!
Even the song seems ok!

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ldontWanna · 12/03/2022 14:10

@GreenFingersWouldBeHandy

Haha it has very little to do with the actual song. Everyone hates us!
Rather arrogant to think "everyone " cares enough to hate you.Hmm
LondonDadToBe · 12/03/2022 14:12

@AdoptedBumpkin

We won't win again for a long time due to block voting and being widely unpopular as a nation.
Is Israel a particularly popular nation with lots of neighbours to block vote for it?
GreenFingersWouldBeHandy · 12/03/2022 14:16

@IdontWanna

Erm... some people may not like us very much? Is that better? Talk about pedantic! This is about Eurovision FGS...

LondonDadToBe · 12/03/2022 14:29

Tickets go on sale at different times of year. I think tickets for this year haven’t gone on sale yet (but that’s probably because the organisers are waiting to be sure how many people they can have in the venue with Covid).

Before Covid, they often went on sale around November to January. You can sign up on the Eurovision website to receive email alerts. You can also join fan groups on Facebook or follow fan blogs on Twitter etc - they will usually be buzzing as soon as a ticket sale date is confirmed.

Be prepared for a very competitive effort to get tickets. Treat it as you would any other concert you know will sell out in a matter of minutes.

Also, decide which show you want tickets for. You can get tickets for any of the live shows - the Semi finals on Tuesday and Thursday, or the Final on Saturday. The tickets for the Saturday night show are obviously like gold dust. You can also get tickets for the rehearsal shows - usually a day time ‘family’ rehearsal (good with kids, the easiest to find tickets for and the one a lot of locals will go to) or the jury rehearsal which is the night before the actual live show. Rehearsals are great shows to get to - tickets are easier to come by (and cheaper) but still loads of fun. I actually prefer going to the Friday night jury rehearsal than the Saturday night live show.

Also decide where you want to sit or stand. The organisers will often release the layout and ticket price bands before they go on sale. This is a matter of preference - I’ve had more fun standing (or rather dancing) but sometimes these can be restricted to registered fans or people getting tickets through fan club packages. If you’re sitting, tailor your seat if you can to whether you want to be up and dancing in your seat or prefer to sit and watch.

Hotels and accommodation books up QUICKLY, especially if it’s hosted in a relatively small city. Dates are usually provisionally in place well in advance and most countries usually only have a choice of three or four realistic host cities. So you might want to book a free cancellation hotel for the possible host cities on the most likely date. That way, once dates and cities are confirmed, you’re in ahead of the game and don’t have to compete with everyone rushing to book once city is confirmed.

To get the most of the experience, join fan groups to find out the best places to hang out while you’re there. You can find out the best places to watch the shows you’re not attending (they’re often shown in public squares in the host city). You can also find out the details of getting access to the official nightclub or the fan nightclub - arrangements vary from year to year but these offer great places to dance the nights away and often you’ll be hanging out near the participating artists. They often have live performances etc. lots of fun. Sometimes anyone can buy a ticket for entry, sometimes only registered fans can, sometimes it’s entirely restricted to the delegations.

The main thing for me is always making it a real Eurovision trip. Enjoying Eurovision music in bars and clubs, hanging out with other fans etc. its much more than just the show you go to. So even if you didn’t get tickets you could also consider just hanging out in the host city for a few days to soak up the atmosphere.

StColumbofNavron · 12/03/2022 14:41

Thanks @LondonDadToBe that’s the exact kind of info that I need, all the ancillary bits that go alongside.

balalake · 12/03/2022 14:53

Not a chance, let's hope that for the sake of the singer it is not 'nil points'.

Hope Ukraine win.

Whattodoniw · 12/03/2022 15:13

@dangerrabbit

No because the votes are political not about the "music"

Yep.

sashagabadon · 12/03/2022 15:40

I like it! 12 points!
He looks like a long haired Prince Harry to me Grin

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 12/03/2022 16:23

As many have said, we won’t win because everyone hates us. With good reason!

ilovesooty · 12/03/2022 16:26

We do badly year after year because we treat the whole thing with a lack of respect and put no effort into researching and selecting the the song. The political situation is neither here nor there.

samsalmon · 12/03/2022 16:34

For everyone saying that we won’t win as everyone hates us, I have no idea if everyone hates us but at Eurovision, you vote for what you like rather than dislike. With 25 songs in the final, most people who vote will vote for a couple of songs maybe? The most popular wins, not the least popular loses. Loads of great songs and artists do badly on the night.

TheHoptimist · 12/03/2022 16:35

ukraine will win
we all know that

ldontWanna · 12/03/2022 16:36

@sashagabadon

I like it! 12 points! He looks like a long haired Prince Harry to me Grin
Definitely not. It's a good song, he seems like a good artist but that is not a 12 points song for Eurovision .
samsalmon · 12/03/2022 16:44

@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER

Do people - at least in the U.K. - still watch/care about Eurovision any more? To me it’s been a bad joke for ages.

I’m just old enough to remember when we won it, though - back in the Dark Ages with Sandie Shaw’s Puppet On A String. Though even if we had a song as instantly catchy as that, I don’t suppose we’d still have a cat in hell’s chance - as pps have said, it’s political.

So you haven’t watched it in years (decades?) but you know it’s all political??
StCharlotte · 12/03/2022 16:46

Every year I say I will go and I just have not yet. If you have the time can you give us a breakdown of how we go about this - is there a particular time tickets are released, do they sell out, how far in advance do you plan? What else do you need to plan other than hotel, flight and ticket. I really really want to do it.

First things first: as soon as the city and date are announced, book flight and accommodation. Register via the official site for tickets. Yes it does sell out - probably quicker than Glastonbury. Tickets normally start being sold in November but Italy have dragged their feet on everything this year so you still have a chance! We bought our tickets for Lisbon from Viagogo..

This year - amazingly - one of our partners is working on it so has sorted us passes.

A tip: we've had tickets before for the final dress rehearsal (Sat. lunchtime but they also have a dress rehearsal on the Friday) and then watched the final from the main city square - the atmosphere was off the scale. A beautiful loving European party.

I really hope you get to go one day Smile

samsalmon · 12/03/2022 16:51

@LondonDadToBe thanks for your observations! 😃
Honestly, the number of people saying stuff that makes it clear they don’t actually watch it….🙄….but they are very sure that it’s all just a huge vendetta against poor old us 😂

StCharlotte · 12/03/2022 16:53

In other words what LondonDadToBe said! Grin

samsalmon · 12/03/2022 17:01

@Pebbledashery

Nowhere near enough gimmick for this to win.
Have a quick scan of the winners of the last 10 years and then get back to us! 😂
willstarttomorrow · 12/03/2022 17:35

This thread is really funny. I love Eurovision, it is a lovely bit of fun. All those saying we would never win 'even if we send Adele, Ed Sherin' or who ever obviously never watch it. Good songs and staging win and we have not taken it seriously for years. I also find the whole 'Europe hate us' rhetoric a bit bemusing and self indulgent. Studies have shown that regions have similar culture and tastes, hence vote for each other. Most countries are just getting on with their own national agenda and politics and rather than spending energy 'hating' the UK. The rest of Europe are just a bit perplexed why a tiny Island with no real industry would want to leave the biggest free trading block in the world. My favourite quote re Brexit was from the NY times who likened it to watching 'some one decide to end it but not yet working out how to do it'.

StColumbofNavron · 12/03/2022 17:42

@StCharlotte thanks for your advice too. I won’t make it this year, but I’m definitely going to plan for next year.

Teastheword · 12/03/2022 19:06

@GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing

As many have said, we won’t win because everyone hates us. With good reason!
Nothing whatsoever to do with the songs?
KTheGrey · 12/03/2022 21:08

@Cherrysherbet and @dangerrabbit have it. Our only chance is to demand separate entries and voting for England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and then one of the latter three can win. They are less detested than England.

Gotajobthrunepotism · 12/03/2022 21:17

Ukraine for the win. Even if they don’t turn up. They should win

Thewindwhispers · 13/03/2022 00:42

Hahahahahahaha I haven’t listened but I can tell you that this close to Brexit and being so slow to respond to Ukraine we will be scoring VERY low. It’s got nothing to do with the actual song.

mathanxiety · 13/03/2022 04:54

The singer they've picked may be talented but he's also utterly boring - eurovision is about fun and flashy, everyone remembers the wild outfits and dramatic specially effects, one beardy bland bloke just standing there singing a song like a busker is utterly forgettable. We make this 'mistake' every year because the people in charge are too uptight and worried about looking silly to get into the spirit of things.

And yet the Netherlands won a few years ago with an act featuring a man sitting alone at a synthesiser singing a sad song.

And Portugal a few years before that sent a man singing a sweet ballad.

The song that came second last year could have been written and sung by Edith Piaf.

Nobody remembers wild outfits or special effects unless they are accompanied by songs that stand out. Think Lordi, and last year's Icelandic number.

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