Eurovision 2023 Liverpool: Semi Final 2

[RedToothBrush]

BBC1 8pm Thursday

10 to qualify. 6 to bin.

1 Denmark
2 Armenia
3 Romania
4 Estonia
5 Belgium
6 Cyprus
7 Iceland
8 Greece
9 Poland
10 Slovenia
11 Georgia
12 San Marino
13 Austria
14 Albania
15 Lithuania
16 Australia

Top picks to look for: Austria (though rehearsal looked underwhelming) and Australia (very heavy on the props!)

There's a few more typical Eurovision songs in there than semi one. This semi is more your guilty Eurovision pleasure than your Eurovision winner.

The Ukrainian entry, UK entry and Spanish entry also get a preview. The Ukrainian one is surprisingly good - when I first saw it I thought it was awful but it's really grown on me and the staging looks good.

This reminds me v much of A-ha.

I'm voting for this - just for the car!
Toyota MR2

Some staging!

Get out yer wind machine!

Strewth!

Yes! A-ha. Thank you.

I like this

Animal (muppets) = drummer for Australia. I want them to get thru just to see more of the Drummer.

Maybe a bit more Uh-Huh?

I like this love the guitar solo and glittery tuxes

He has a Morten Harkett voice.

Maybe not his looks.

this is actually better than the studio version

That's like waking up from a nightmare from the 1980s

1 Denmark - pink revolving door kid
2 Armenia - squirly laced up lady
3 Romania - pink suit guy in lava
Estonia - ghost piano bond theme
Belgium - gay disco pussy
Cyprus - mahoosive arms advertising perfume
Iceland - p-p-p-p-pick up a penguin
Greece - Steve Irwin's secret baby
Poland - spanish holiday
Slovenia - gay Margo Leadbetter
Georgia - Vienna tissue box
San Marino - smelly animals
Austria - Poe Poe Poe
Albania - Von Trapps Meets Ming the Merciless
Lithuania - Shoot a lot of blue dough
Australia - Toyota 80s Nightmare

Australia was good
Liked that

I bloody loved that one!

Great recap @RedToothBrush

Anyone ends heat Duran Duran?

With numbers

1 Denmark - pink revolving door kid
2 Armenia - squirly laced up lady
3 Romania - pink suit guy in lava
4 Estonia - ghost piano bond theme
5 Belgium - gay disco pussy
6 Cyprus - mahoosive arms advertising perfume
7 Iceland - p-p-p-p-pick up a penguin
8 Greece - Steve Irwin's secret baby
9 Poland - spanish holiday
10 Slovenia - gay Margo Leadbetter
11 Georgia - Vienna tissue box
12 San Marino - smelly animals
13 Austria - Poe Poe Poe
14 Albania - Von Trapps Meets Ming the Merciless
15 Lithuania - Shoot a lot of blue dough
16 Australia - Toyota 80s Nightmare

I enjoyed Australia.

Peppa pig!

Gay Margo leadbetter
And Emily Thornbury in one night

Well, that's the first time I've been glad we let Australia in.

Is Alesha wearing a bin bag on her side? whats that about? otherwise perfectly fine dress?

I liked Austria and Albania. I think Belgium, Poland, Slovenia and Australia deserve to go through. I kind of didn't mind Greece. Last night's semi was stronger. Some of them going through tonight will be lucky.

The re-cap sounds a better than the actual perfomance did for some of them. Maybe they've tweaked the sound.