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... did I just see on the news that Morrissey is being tipped to represent the UK in Eurovision this year!?

I s**t you not. I was on the phone, with the TV sound turned down, and I saw this headline - on the Beeb no less! Sophie Jolly-Hockey-Sticks Rayworth's telling me so it must be true.

I then looked out of my window to see the hot snow falling up...

yep they even speak about it in Belgium. Welcome to your worst nigthmare

Woooohaaaa!!!!

Maybe you can win it then?!

Oh, Mozzer

Read about it too. It made the news here, go figure. Apparently, he offered to go himself after the last catastrophic UK entry (isn't that a double negative with Eurovision? )...

stefanmoermans wrote:yep they even speak about it in Belgium. Welcome to your worst nigthmare

Welcome to Helsinki´s worst nightmare I´d say...

Ahráyeph wrote:the last catastrophic UK entry

Oooh, did you see that? It was bad and wrong on so many levels.

well for as much as i've followed it it was always wrong except for the belgium entries : pas-de-deux with rendez-vous and a couple called nicole and hugo with goeiemorgen

boudicca wrote:

Ahráyeph wrote:the last catastrophic UK entry

Oooh, did you see that? It was bad and wrong on so many levels.

Actually, the whole thing was so hilarious it entertained the hell out of me and my gay friends. We were in stitches. Too bad our own entry didn't do the whole 'controversial knee wiggle', which would have had the whole of Europe in tears of laughter, I'm sure.
And yes, Stefan, Pas de Deux rocked the whole thing, mhehe. Don't forget Telex either, though. (Marc Moulin rocks!)

Blimey. Eurovision? Surely Lordi proved that the whole thing is just a bad joke anyway?

Ahráyeph wrote:
And yes, Stefan, Pas de Deux rocked the whole thing, mhehe. Don't forget Telex either, though.

seconded

except that I think Marc Moulin kinda lost it years ago...
He did great things in the past, but his last few solo efforts couldn't satisfy me at all

Them winning was so much a case in point. My friends texted three times to make sure they won. And the whole heavy metal community got in gear to text Lordi to the winning position. What better illustration of Eurovision being a travesty than that? Which still begs the question why Mozzer would consider even doing a *shudder* qualifying show in order to go?

radiojamaica wrote:

Ahráyeph wrote:
And yes, Stefan, Pas de Deux rocked the whole thing, mhehe. Don't forget Telex either, though.

seconded

except that I think Marc Moulin kinda lost it years ago...
He did great things in the past, but his last few solo efforts couldn't satisfy me at all

Just heard some tracks of his latest on StuBru last night and although it isn't anything like the old stuff at all, I like it.

even in the gossip rags down here.

Ahráyeph wrote: Just heard some tracks of his latest on StuBru last night and although it isn't anything like the old stuff at all, I like it.

Good for you! Put on your dancing shoes!

When he released 'Into The Dark' some years ago, I really had to look the other way... All in my opinion of course.

I did like the old Sam Suffy album very much.

markfiend wrote:Blimey. Eurovision? Surely Lordi proved that the whole thing is just a bad joke anyway?

NOOO
sorry, but I like them

on topic. I like Morrissey, it wouldn't be a bad thing if he did enter.

christophe wrote:on topic. I like Morrissey, it wouldn't be a bad thing if he did enter.

Yeah at least he's a proper musician (well I know only some people might agree with that!)

i am just tottally stunned on two levels:
morrisey, the miserable moaner from manc land is a complete T*sser

and

you all seem far too well informed on eurovision just to be
casual observers??!!

your'e all a bunch of freaks!

bushman*pm wrote:i am just tottally stunned on two levels:
morrisey, the miserable moaner from manc land is a complete T*sser

and

you all seem far too well informed on eurovision just to be
casual observers??!!

your'e all a bunch of freaks!

Yeah, but you're a scary freak and we're harmless...

Ahráyeph wrote:Them winning was so much a case in point. My friends texted three times to make sure they won. And the whole heavy metal community got in gear to text Lordi to the winning position. What better illustration of Eurovision being a travesty than that? Which still begs the question why Mozzer would consider even doing a *shudder* qualifying show in order to go?

And I won a grand down the bookies on them. Haven't mentioned that in a good while...

I could well believe Moz doing it, the irony of being involved in a tacky show like that would probably appeal to him.

I so know who I'll be voting for....

Poor sod. I hope he's up for competition with Germany for the last place.

'twas on local radio as well. Why, I cannot establish - we're a long way from the Land of Lard.

I'm sure there'll be a rational explanation.

scully

where is my Love emoticon?

Ahráyeph wrote:

bushman*pm wrote:i am just tottally stunned on two levels:
morrisey, the miserable moaner from manc land is a complete T*sser

and

you all seem far too well informed on eurovision just to be
casual observers??!!

your'e all a bunch of freaks!

Yeah, but you're a scary freak and we're harmless...

Ah, you flatter me so!

Ah, it worked!

I think it would be hilariously fantastic for Morrissey to enter the ESC but we need to think about the [many] con's of doing this...

He could lose, if so his reputation as a respected musician would be diminished, he'd open himself up to the entire media and just become even more of a punchbag, and he's not even likely to make it past the qualifying stages because the British public don't know what decent music is and we'd end up with some brainless chav "representing" us again...

Although if Morrissey did get through qualifying stages, and had the whole country behind him (plus the many fans across the whole of Europe) then I think, not only would be in with a chance of winning but Moz would be almost guaranteed his first Number 1!

After all, he is the number 1 MUSIC ICON in the whole of Britain (if you go by the culture shows results).