Never Kyiv Up On UK: It's Eurovision 2017!

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Come one come all and welcome to Suffolk's annual Eurovision bonanza!

Brexit smexit as we join Mel, Scott and Graham for another year of big ballads, unusual visuals and quite frankly bizarre promos.

This year we are in Kyiv in Ukraine after they won with a not so subtle dig at Putin, what will this year bring?

Poland - Sia but not as good
Portugal - werewolf in plaid

Romania - YODELLING! Full blown yodelfest
Russia - getting back at Ukraine winning

San Marino - club classic from 1994
Serbia - couldn't focus on the song as the video is just weird
Slovenia - zzzzzzzzz
Spain - surfer dude, ad for Aussie hair products
Sweden - corporate bonding weekend
Switzerland - I like this one but I don't know why

The Netherlands - Dixie Chicks

Ukraine - Metal. Like it.
UK - might as well give up

www.google.co.uk/amp/www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/eurovision-song-contest-2017-russia-not-taking-part-yulia-samoylova-a7683761.html%3Famp

Russian entry is banned from entering Ukraine.

Cyprus is definitely 50 Shades of Orange

Hush your mouth
Who's your favourite overall then?

Moldova definitely

Or put it this way, is there any you can still remember and even hum?

Are not is. Off to listen to Moldova again. Enrique Inglesias likes Montenegro allegedly.

With the long swishy plait?!

I quite like Armenia, Belgium and FYR Macedonia.

Please, please, please don't let me get Portugal in the work sweepstake again this year.

Not bowled over by Moldova
Not sure whether it's the sax or the virginal bride staging.
Yes, Slavko has the dancing plait and wants to write a story with your body. Or something. Am sure Enrique likes his...musicality. Slavko is the Montenegro Rylan, right down to the eyebrows. Here he is getting his Bey on, bless.
m.youtube.com/?gl=GB&hl=en-GB#/watch?v=d5Amj1hZK_U

I like the Belgian entry very much. It's a decent indie track. She's a Voice of Belgium alumnus apparently.

Swedish guy and his backing dancers look like they should be doing an ad for Top Man
But I am we have no Russian grannies, singing pirates, slutty washerwomen, el Michael Jackson moves, skirts being ripped off and the like. Tis either dancy, moody or angsty.
I miss cheesy pop.

Fuck, I knew I should have made the thread earlier! I wanted to make one, I even had a name for it and all. SAD!

If there's a country, can I have one please?

Have you seen Montenegro's, I think it was them, entry? What a fabulous creature.

The UK has the ready made excuse of Brexit as to why we are going to lose, so that's good, I guess. Will get very boring having to keep on listening to that excuse though.

I'm mainly supporting Moldova because I have connections there, but I do love their general propensity for randomness.

I'm looking forward to the staging tonight, hopefully some truly stunning light shows (as we have seen in the past couple of years) but the props do make me take more notice.

Please please please let there be a hamster wheel this year!

I have to do lots of running-around-after-children this evening. Hopefully I'll be done in time to watch semi-final number one...

Honestly why tonight of all nights Oubliette?!

Hope you make it back to enjoy it will us, blue cocktails and all 🍸

I know. It should be DH doing the pick-ups, but apparently he had to go to Wales for a meeting and won't be back in time. Humph.

LTB

Evening All. Good to see a few old familiar faces knocking about.

4:30am here in Aus and Norwegian DH and I are up and ready.

Not a fan of Australia's song this year though.

Home. Wine open. Phew!

Welcome Red, was hoping to see you here

Yay!!

So excited!!