Eurovision rewatch: Belgrade 2008 (20/06, 20:00 BST)

[D5K]

Really looking forward to this one!

 

[dmlaw]

I'll be watching, but I suspect this might be a bit of a quiet thread.

 

[Tisch]

I'm out. Can't be arsed.

 

[D5K]

I'll be watching, but I suspect this might be a bit of a quiet thread.

Probably; I'm definitely watching though. And keeping an eye on FDS of course.

 

[dmlaw]

They'll probably all stumble in drunk in an hour or so.

 

[VoR]

Here for this utterly fabulous yet heartbreaking year.

 

[dmlaw]

Harry Potter seems to have gotten on the pills.

 

[VoR]

Imagine if Salvador had put a donk on it like this in Lisbon?

 

[D5K]

I’d forgotten this version, I need to look it up when this is done

 

[dmlaw]

You have admire the Serbs for going for such subtle and restrained staging here.

 

[D5K]

I love the stage but that actual performance plinth is tiny!

 

[D5K]

2008 was probably my looniest year in terms of Eurovision.

 

[VoR]

Were these hosts OK? I feel like they were OK.

 

[dmlaw]

For a moment there, I though the hosts were going to say 'the biggest fireworks display in Belgrade since the NATO bombing'.

 

[D5K]

She is AWFUL

 

[dmlaw]

I wonder if we'd have done better if we had sent Michelle Gayle.

 

[VoR]

I wonder if we'd have done better if we had sent Michelle Gayle.

I reckon we could have DOUBLED our total score!

 

[dmlaw]

Albania feels like it would have been improved with a lower cut top.

 

[D5K]

I’d forgotten how weak the opening of this year is. I guess that means all the BANGERS are compacted later on

 

[dmlaw]

Germany is not helping matters.

 

[D5K]

I used to really like No Angels. But this song was pants.

 

[D5K]

Okay NOW we’re driving!

 

[dmlaw]

I still want to know who this Kelly girl she keeps going on about is.

But, yes, a big improvement.

 

[D5K]

Is this the best ever Armenian entry?

 

[VoR]

Is this the best ever Armenian entry?

I'd say Jan Jan, but this is right up there.

 

[D5K]

I'd say Jan Jan, but this is right up there.

Good point but it’s close to call.

 

[D5K]

Oh not this insufferable tit

 

[dmlaw]

Oh, what the fuck is happening now? This performance can surely only end in a knife murder.

 

[D5K]

Apparently they’re brother and sister!

 

[dmlaw]

Well, that only makes it more unsettling.

 

[VoR]

This Finnish one is camp as tits, isn't it?

HOO! HA!

 

[Suomi]

02 Romania
03 U.K.
02 Albania
09 Germany - this is good I swear
08 Armenia
10 Bosnia-Herzgovina

 

[D5K]

This Finnish one is camp as tits, isn't it?

HOO! HA!

This is much better than I remember! And yes it is

 

[dmlaw]

Bold decision for Finland to go back to this well so soon. Given their recent entries, they should do it again.

 

[D5K]

Oh not this insufferable tit AGAIN

 

[D5K]

I assume he’s just hurling racial epithets from the side of the stage?

 

[dmlaw]

I assume he’s just hurling racial epithets from the side of the stage?

I think that might have been cwej.

 

[VoR]

I FORGOT ABOUT ISIS

What an absolute ICON

 

[D5K]

I’ll be honest this year isn’t as amazing as I remember so far.

but then I know what’s still to come so there’s hope!

 

[D5K]

Right now we’re onto one of my favourite Eurovision songs of all time.