Eurovision 2015 - 2018....

[cloughie]

Is it just me or are this year's selection even more dismal than usual and are the singers just not very good or is the link to their backing not good - intonation appears poor - it seems that many are singing under the note. Now we have Mahler 2 finale for the voting interval - best tune on all evening.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Maybe you should have been listening to this instead.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05w84fh

[Petrushka]

I've never understood why people watch television programmes that they know in advance they will absolutely hate.

Remember the title of that children's programme - 'Why don't you switch off your television and do something less boring instead?'

Life's too short.

[cloughie]

Maybe you should have been listening to this instead.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05w84fh

'appen you're right alps but I reckon I won't change the annual habit of a lifetime.

[Nick Armstrong]

the annual habit of a lifetime.

I caught 10 seconds of it just now. How can you?

[jayne lee wilson]

Is it just me or are this year's selection even more dismal than usual and are the singers just not very good or is the link to their backing not good - intonation appears poor - it seems that many are singing under the note. Now we have Mahler 2 finale for the voting interval - best tune on all evening.

OK...right.
When I said that it was a "terrible dilemma" to choose between Eurovision and Oramo's Nielsen 6th...
I didn't really mean it...

[Nick Armstrong]

OK...right.
When I said that it was a "terrible dilemma" to choose between Eurovision and Oramo's Nielsen 6th...
I didn't really mean it...

[BBMmk2]

Havn't watched this programme in ages! thank goodness! :)

[Roehre]

Can someone tell me what Eurovision Song contest 2015 is ?

[Anastasius]

Is it just me or are this year's selection even more dismal than usual and are the singers just not very good or is the link to their backing not good - intonation appears poor - it seems that many are singing under the note. Now we have Mahler 2 finale for the voting interval - best tune on all evening.

Oh rats...that was when I went out of the room to make coffee. I like Mahler 2.

I stopped watching after the nth ex-Soviet bloc country gave yet another 12 points to Russia. The song was OK but only OK. Interesting to hear the audience's negative reactions to this and even more interesting to hear their knuckles being rapped by one of the presenters! Graham Norton's asides were one of the highlights, as ever.

Sweden's song...mmm..like most other songs, two minutes later and I'd forgotten how it went. Heard it again briefly this morning on the R4 news and it really is weak. It was the rather clever presentation that made it stickout, I think.

The best song IMO was the Belgian one. You can see it here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjH-HYAFICg
The only one where I rewound the PVR and listened again.

[Anastasius]

I've never understood why people watch television programmes that they know in advance they will absolutely hate.

Remember the title of that children's programme - 'Why don't you switch off your television and do something less boring instead?'

Life's too short.

Ah, but with a PVR you can fast forward over the boring songs and rewind and replay those that interest you. We never watch any TV live (well, hardly any). As you say, life's too short. If we're not sure about a new programme, PVR it, watch it for a bit then cut if it doesn't live up to expectations. Like 1864, for instance. What possessed the BBC to buy that series?

[Roehre]

... Like 1864, for instance. What possessed the BBC to buy that series?

I think it's great - I like the frame work in which the developments around Schleswig-Holstein are set; the developments themselves and the main backgrounds of the Prussian-Danish war of that year are to the point. I prefer Bismarck and Wilhelm IV speaking German and Queen victoria and Palmerston speaking English in stead of all speaking the language of the film maker's country (I hate Germans speaking English or vice versa the German dubbing over of English-spoken films)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Can someone tell me what Eurovision Song contest 2015 is ?

It's a competition for countries in Asia, Europe and Oceania, the object of which is to produce a song less bad than all the others. It was much more exciting when the songs were not known in advance of the final.

It confirms my assertion that Europe as a continent does not exist.

[Anastasius]

I think it's great - I like the frame work in which the developments around Schleswig-Holstein are set; the developments themselves and the main backgrounds of the Prussian-Danish war of that year are to the point. I prefer Bismarck and Wilhelm IV speaking German and Queen victoria and Palmerston speaking English in stead of all speaking the language of the film maker's country (I hate Germans speaking English or vice versa the German dubbing over of English-spoken films)

I think you have proved the comment made by one critic, namely that you need to have a genuine interest in the period and specifically events in Schleswig-Holstein to appreciate it! I agree with you re speaking in the actual language - which is why I rarely go to the ENO. Wagner sung in English ? Yuk!!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I think you have proved the comment made by one critic, namely that you need to have a genuine interest in the period and specifically events in Schleswig-Holstein to appreciate it! I agree with you re speaking in the actual language - which is why I rarely go to the ENO. Wagner sung in English ? Yuk!!

Heaven forbid that anyone in the audience should understand it.