If I can't get tickets for the final, I'll try for the semi-finals, as I think some semi-final tickets were left this year just a couple of weeks before. Good tickets, reasonable price, the only thing that really stopped me going were flight prices, and the fact there didn't seem to be any direct flights left. Once I knew I couldn't get flights, I didn't look into hotels either.

 

I'll try and re-watch the voting. There is someone on YouTube who posts it with BBC commentary. Graham was good again this year, though I think I may have missed a bit since I talked over it :lol:

 

I really want to go to Eurovision next year as well. Does anyone know when the actual tickets for the event are released, like roughly?

 

I'd say February/March 2011 time.

 

Ireland should pull out. Something is wrong with the process for picking our song.

I plan to get a ticket for next year's Eurovision. Wherever in Germany it may be.

 

But for now, I am at the stage where I wish Eurovision was on again tomorrow :(

I don't think Ireland should pull out at all....

 

There's a saying my dad has and it's very true.....if you're not in you can't win.

 

The only fair reason imo to pull out is money issues (or maybe if there's a war going on)......anything else and it's just sour grapes. -_-

Edited May 30, 201015 yr by Sabrewulf

Ireland should not pull out. They have as much chance as anyone else next year, though I agree Niamh was robbed :(

 

Although, I'd even be inclined to just get dress rehearsal tickets and then hang around in the city to watch the final, wherever it might be.

 

I know what you mean. I almost feel like the rehearsals would be more fun, for some reason.

Ireland should not pull out. They have as much chance as anyone else next year, though I agree Niamh was robbed :(

 

 

That is a total fallacy. Haven't you spotted the voting trends? This is not a level playing field so Ireland do not have the same chance as every one else. Look at how many votes the ludicrous Russian song got.

Edited May 30, 201015 yr by toneski

That is a total fallacy. Haven't you spotted the voting trends. This is not a level playing field so Ireland do not have the same chance as every one else. Look at how many votes the ludicrous Russian song got?

 

Yes I have seen how much the Russia song got.

 

But looking at Germany's entry last year you wouldn't have been blamed for thinking they would never win again, but they have. If we can get the right song, something youthful like Germany or the Romania Song we could do well with it. Before you say anything, yes Germany has many neighbors but that didn't help them in previous years did it? Also Norway won and they didn't have many neighbors either....just had Scandinavian countries for support

 

It's a contest, you may lose but you pick yourself up and you give it another go. That's how contests work. Negative so called realistic people like you will be the reason Ireland never wins again not block voting.

Edited May 30, 201015 yr by Sabrewulf

The Irish entry got lost a bit. It wasnt the most exiting of songs and really I think similar songs were just a lot more memorable. Still Ireland managed to qualigy for the first time in years, so they should be relatively pleased with that surely?

I really dont like the idea of countries oulling out just because they havent been doing well recently. It's all a bit childish surely.

Yes I have seen how much the Russia song got.

 

But looking at Germany's entry last year you wouldn't have been blamed for thinking they would never win again, but they have. If we can get the right song, something youthful like Germany or the Romania Song we could do well with it. Before you say anything, yes Germany has many neighbors but that didn't help them in previous years did it? Also Norway won and they didn't have many neighbors either....just had Scandinavian countries for support

 

It's a contest, you may lose but you pick yourself up and you give it another go. That's how contests work. Negative so called realistic people like you will be the reason Ireland never wins again not block voting.

 

 

I don't think a few years of withdrawing would do any harm. I'm not upset or anything - I never liked Niamh's song and I'm not bothered she did so badly. If it was a fantastic song I'd be more irritated by its lack of success. 5 Years away from the whole thing could do us good.

That is a total fallacy. Haven't you spotted the voting trends? This is not a level playing field so Ireland do not have the same chance as every one else. Look at how many votes the ludicrous Russian song got.

True, but due to cultural and ethnic ties (the vast majority of the people who voted for the Russian entry share a similar cultural heritage where the kind of humour in the Russian song actually, er, somehow makes sense :lol: In addition to the fact that, especially in the Belarus - who gave Russia their only 12 - pretty much everybody IS Russian or half-Russian! It's no different to British people giving their vote to Ireland by default) it's pretty much impossible to eradicate. Does that mean we should stop? I don't really think so. It affected Russia big time, yeah, and we're likely at a point where only isolating Russia in a semi away from all her neighbours is going to stop her from qualifying by default, but I'd say last night's top ten was pretty much deserved for all who made it.

 

Ireland had the poor luck to be drawn after essentially the same track - a standard, slowly building power ballad with a subtle-as-a-brick key change as the main selling point. Norway and Belarus didn't have any luck with the formula either, so I'd say it was more that they all scrapped for the same votes and cancelled each other out than that Ireland doesn't 'get' Eurovision. Had they sent it in 2007 where ballads were pretty light on the ground in the final (and the thing was eventually won by the only proper ballad in there!), Ireland would probably have come top five!

Ridiculous BBC article from someone who clearly hasn't been paying attention. The bolded parts in particular offend me...

 

With her runaway victory at the Eurovision Song Contest, German teenager Lena has ushered in a new era for the annual music jamboree.

 

Not only has she signalled an end to a politically-motivated, 13-year losing streak for the "big four" countries who help fund the competition, but her winning song, Satellite, has reclaimed the contest's musical credibility.

 

With echoes of Lily Allen and Paloma Faith, it is the first contemporary pop hit Eurovision has produced in decades.

 

And Lena was not alone in embracing the charts, with the top three songs all displaying a welcome maturity.

 

Turkey's entrants, maNga, are a nu metal band who picked up an MTV Award last year; while Belgian singer-songwriter Tom Dice moulded his song on the hit singles of David Gray and James Morrison.

 

2010's competition got off to a rousing start, as Azerbaijan's Safura took to the stage in a dress that literally lit up like a Christmas tree.

 

Her song, Drip Drop, was widely tipped to win but her look (lion-maned temptress) and song choice (over-wrought power ballad) was replicated too often to stand out.

 

Indeed, there were so many seductive women with manes of hair billowing into the wind, that you began to think the audience consisted entirely of wind machines.

 

One plucky soul was determined to prove otherwise, however, and ran onto the stage in a jester's hat during Spain's performance - the first Eurovision stage invasion since 1964.

 

Daniel Diges got to perform his song again but, to be honest, it was better the first time.

 

Romania, on the other hand, made actual sparks fly when male-female duo Paul Seling and Ovi shot flames out of their sleeves; while Belarusian group 3+2 marked the climax of their song by sprouting butterfly wings.

 

Gimmicks aside, it was a clutch of uptempo numbers that received the best reaction inside Oslo's Telenor Arena.

 

Among them were Greece's tub-thumping machismo-fest OPA! and France's rambunctious Allez Olla Ole.

 

If your bottom didn't wiggle to that one, then your bottom was malfunctioning.

 

But amidst all the hotpants, fireworks and questionable haircuts (I'm looking at you, Serbia) it was a lone 19-year-old pop singer who made the biggest impression.

 

Lena had no complicated choreography, no inexplicable backing dancers and she wore a simple black dress - the sort of thing you could pick up tomorrow in any high street store.

 

Her refreshingly direct performance reflected a vivacious, playful personality.

 

Following her victory, she ran into the press centre, showering photographers with champagne and chanting "Ich liebe Deutschland".

 

She joked that she had been in a relationship with last year's winner, Alexander Rybak "since three years and four months" and answered one question simply by blowing kisses at the assembled journalists.

 

"I think it's unreal! I'm very happy," she exclaimed. "I hope everyone's going to make it to the party tonight!"

Contest cliche

 

At the other end of the scale, UK entrant Josh Dubovie will be drowning his sorrows after taking last place, with a measly 10 points.

 

His fatal mistake was to cling stoically to decades-old Eurovision cliche, in a year when the contest finally dragged itself into the 21st Century.

 

That Sounds Good To Me was written by Pete Waterman and Mike Stock - bankable hitmakers in their heyday, but that heyday was 20 years ago, and their song sounded like it had been pulled off a shelf marked "Jason Donovan rejects (1988)".

 

By contrast, Julia Frost, who co-wrote Lena's song, works for RedZone entertainment - the US company responsible for Rihanna's Umbrella and Britney Spears' Me Against The Music.

 

Her writing partner, John Gordon, told the BBC that Satellite was composed three years ago and "wasn't even written for Eurovision".

 

"We were just so ahead of our time and finally the rest of the world caught up with us!" Frost joked.

 

She may not be wrong.

 

Yes, I understand that it's finally getting a positive viewpoint of Eurovision, but it just demonstrates how ill-informed they are about Eurovision. Especially when they can't even get the country that finished third right :/

Hmm...well at least they're not banging on about political voting and all that bollocks I suppose. And good job they picked up on our horrendous song choice. Shame they seem to have just skipped over last year's numerous successes though...

Also Norway won and they didn't have many neighbors either....just had Scandinavian countries for support

 

Even Iceland & Finland didn't give Norway anything last night :o

True, but due to cultural and ethnic ties (the vast majority of the people who voted for the Russian entry share a similar cultural heritage where the kind of humour in the Russian song actually, er, somehow makes sense :lol: In addition to the fact that, especially in the Belarus - who gave Russia their only 12 - pretty much everybody IS Russian or half-Russian! It's no different to British people giving their vote to Ireland by default) it's pretty much impossible to eradicate. Does that mean we should stop? I don't really think so. It affected Russia big time, yeah, and we're likely at a point where only isolating Russia in a semi away from all her neighbours is going to stop her from qualifying by default, but I'd say last night's top ten was pretty much deserved for all who made it.

 

Ireland had the poor luck to be drawn after essentially the same track - a standard, slowly building power ballad with a subtle-as-a-brick key change as the main selling point. Norway and Belarus didn't have any luck with the formula either, so I'd say it was more that they all scrapped for the same votes and cancelled each other out than that Ireland doesn't 'get' Eurovision. Had they sent it in 2007 where ballads were pretty light on the ground in the final (and the thing was eventually won by the only proper ballad in there!), Ireland would probably have come top five!

Exactly what I was going to say. There are a lot of Russians in the countries of the former USSR. A lot of them are bound to vote for what they still see as their home country. The same applies to the countries that used to make up Yugoslavia. The fact that general musical tastes will also be similar just adds to it. The Belgian entry was probably the only song of its type in the competition. Therefore, anyone who likes that sort of thing voted for Belgium. Our song was different but only by being 25 years out of date.

I'm gunna come out and say, I liked Didrik!

Ireland did badly because it got lost amongst the million other ballads and it wasn't a very current sounding ballad either?

I have depression now :( WHY! I want Eurovsion back!

I currently have the single version of 'Drip Drop' on on repeat... It's absolutely stunning. :heart: Shame they had to cut the last 40 seconds off for the Eurovision.

I ate like a pig during eurovision last night :( I'm paying the price today :puke2:

 

The Pringles were there and I just couldn't stop....I had loads of guacamole too

Edited May 30, 201015 yr by Sabrewulf

To those who think the second performance helped Spain: juries had voted based on dress rehearsals so it might have given them more public votes but not juries'