did anyone watch tonights preliminary round ?
did you think any of the performances were worth watching ?
I liked the rockband from Finland. they were among the 10 countries that qualified for saturdays final evening.
There is a lot of enthusiasm in here Iceland for this event.
not much rock an roll though

puleaze..!

lot of views, no comments .. too shy ?

ROCKMAN

Fly on the wiiiiings of loooove. Fly baby flyyyyyy. YUCK!!!!!!!! I'm ashamed to be Danish.

JumpingKentFlash

I watched it. It's turned into a freak show. I kind of liked it back in the old days when Sandi Shaw sang "Puppet on a string", but that must'ave been in '67 or something.
Today, it's all about costumes and appearance. Not so much about music. And very little about song skills. There was extremely little of exactly that - song talent - yesterday. I recognized two voices, ladies who could sing. One was from Poland (but she sang this really terrible song) and the other one was from Norway (and her song was not much better). The rest of them were clowns, drag artists and people who should not have entered the competition had they had any self respect. Or respect for the tv spectators. It was honestly horrible. But we had several evil laughs during the show.

Wow!!! I must check that out on "You - Tube", because in Italy the show isn't broadcasted and there's no italian competitor either. last year I loved Magdi Ruzsa's song, I think she would have deserved to win!



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For once, Norway has a decent song.

Dustin The turkey will win it for Ireland.

Went out with a bang yesterday

you're correct- my mistake.
Ireland must be shocked by this.

these were the countries that got through the first night: Azerbaijan, Armenia, Greece, Romania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Finland, Russia, Israel, Poland and Norway.

Just curious - but is the irony of the Finnish performer - that heavy metal group - recognizable? I mean, they are not tend to be a kind of 'real' or 'serious' band but a kind of joke of the heavy metal clisches (a sort of Spinal Tap).

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puleaze..!

exactly

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puleaze..!

exactly

triple that!

...and, there's this Bon Jovi thread also - yikes^^

<I mean, they are not tend to be a kind of 'real' or 'serious' band but a kind of joke of the heavy metal clisches (a sort of Spinal Tap).>

Don't be too sure...

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Dustin The turkey will win it for Ireland.

Going on recent years I think there's a good chance that Ireland can win it with whatever old crap that they enter, if Dustin wins that'll just prove it.
It's not Irelands fault that everyone loves them! (can I get a smiley with guiness?)

I think I've bust a button on my trousers....

Open ears is always a good thing. I will follow it as always.
But its called: "Eurovision Song Contest".

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Dustin The turkey will win it for Ireland.

Going on recent years I think there's a good chance that Ireland can win it with whatever old crap that they enter, if Dustin wins that'll just prove it.
It's not Irelands fault that everyone loves them! (can I get a smiley with guiness?)

Don't want to spoil the fun - but...

Ireland's Dustin The Turkey won't be in Eurovision final
By Jody Thompson, Mirror.co.uk 21/05/2008
Ireland are out of this Saturday's Eurovision Song Contest final after Dustin the Turkey failed to qualify from the first semi-final.

The comedy puppet failed to ruffle feathers with it's song Ireland Douze Pounts.
bla bla bla
[www.mirror.co.uk]

This gay parade should be forbidden ..........or switch back to the 70ties

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Gay parade is spot on. Still diamonds & gems are to be found among the ECS contributions
Here Hari Mata Hari "Lejla" Bosnia-Hercegovina 2006 .... Worthless song?????






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Baboon, Hari Mata Hari has represented Bosnia & Herzegovina in Athens, 2006. Take a look at the live perfomance from that beautiful night.
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I was in the hall twice at the Eurovision finals, since my job is Tv engineer. In 2004 Serbia had also a great song: Lane Moje by Zeljko Joksimovic and Ad Hoc orchestra . Zeljko is the host of this year's contest in Belgrade.
Yes, a lot ( too much ) of "gay pride" content in Eurovision but look at 2004's winner Ruslana or 2005, Helena from Greece. The quality will always win over kitch.

Here is Ruslana from Ukraine, Istanbul 2004:
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Srbija!

Dustin my arse...we should have gone for this...

Awfully sorry, Grizzly: Bosnia of course.
Actually I became mislead by the Youtube-labellin'.
Now, listen to this, punks & say again ESC is 100% rotten!

Nothing wrong with it being a gay parade; that's the main reason I watch it. The more queens, transvestites and general OTT camp the better. You'd hardly watch it for the music, would you?

I don't think it is just a gay parade though. Plenty of attempts to win by flashing a good pair of tits too.

Saw an interview of that finnish rockband on tv and being asked if they could say something in german, one went:

"Ich habe Sauerkraut in meiner Lederhose" rotfl

do I need to translate? ok, I will...

I have Sauerkraut in my Lederhose (leatherpants)



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I hope the one from Serbia wins, because her song is the best and it's not a rip-off some american songs, but actually resembles the home country of the singer.

I haven't heard this years entry from Serbia but I did think the winning song last year was very good. And she didn't use sex to sell the song either. Amazingly for Eurovision, the best song won on merit alone.

tonight my nation Iceland opens the show.
i kindly ask you ( those who can..) to vote for them (us)
a review would be appreciated..