Posted August 3, 200816 yr Andy Abraham gives up on music career Sunday, August 3 2008, 12:02 BST DigitalSpy.co.uk By Daniel Kilkelly, Entertainment Reporter Andy Abraham has decided to call time on his music career after being "humiliated" at the Eurovision Song Contest. The former X Factor star funded his own entry into the competition, but his track 'Even If' finished joint last with just 14 points in May. Veteran Eurovision commentator Terry Wogan immediately claimed that political voting was to blame. Abraham has now told friends that he will not release any further material. Instead, he will concentrate on becoming a property developer. "He was absolutely gutted at the result," a source told the Daily Star Sunday. "He said he felt he had put in the 'performance of his life', so to be given 'nul points' by 22 countries was humiliating, especially after he staked in a large amount of his own cash. "The result was both a personal and financial blow and as a result Handy Andy has decided to turn his hand to property developing. He's got a few properties he's working on at the moment. It's not a great economic climate - but it's marginally better than the music industry." 22? 42 more like. :smoke: Muahahaha.
August 3, 200816 yr He might have put in "the performance of his life" but he is completely deluded if he thought his very mediocre song was remotely good enough to do well at Eurovision.
August 3, 200816 yr I feel sorry for him though, he is quite a good singer but the song wasn't doing him any favors. :(
August 3, 200816 yr Author Just reading an interview with the lead singer of BWO on Digital Spy... hits the nail on the head tbh. You're known for being a big fan of Eurovision. From the UK's point of view, what's going wrong? "I love Eurovision - I call it the gay soccer tournament! What you need to do is get rid of the rule that the UK entry has to be written by UK songwriters. If you allow foreign songwriters to submit entries, you'll have much, much better songs competing. Andy Abraham placed last this year because he had an awful, awful song. The reason he got to be the UK's entry is because the other songs were even worse. BWO were once offered the chance to compete to become the UK's entry, but we turned it down because they wouldn't let us write our own songs. They sent us these really crappy songs written by second-rate British songwriters and we said, 'Why would we do this? It would be suicide to perform this crappy song.'" Can the UK ever win Eurovision again? "If you put in more of an effort you can win it. If you put in a good song with a good performer you have a chance. You can't put in a second-rate artist like Andy Abraham singing a really crappy song and expect people to vote for it. Come on, that song was so, so awful."
August 3, 200816 yr Andy Abraham's song was by no means a winning song, or even among the best, but I still stand by what I've always said. He did NOT deserve to come last and his performance was one of the strongest. I don't blame him for quitting because he certainly deserved neither his terrible result, nor the slating he has been subjected to since winning EYD.
August 4, 200816 yr His performance may have been strong, but the song was still awful...I agree he didn't deserve last, but with such a forgetful song he didn't deserve anything outside the bottom five.
August 5, 200816 yr Rex Features Former X Factor star Andy Abraham has denied claims that he is giving up on his music career. An article in the Daily Star Sunday at the weekend suggested that Abraham would launch a career in property development after finishing joint last in the Eurovision Song Contest earlier this year. However, the singer's manager Denise Abraham told DS: "We have an up and coming theatre tour booked in starting from Oct 31st. Andy has never been involved in the property development business and has an active career in the music business. "He has released his current album Even If on his own record label B-Line Records and has further projects in the pipeline." Veteran Eurovision commentator Terry Wogan blamed political voting after Abraham's track 'Even If' received just 14 points at the contest in May. Meanwhile, Simon Cowell described the competition as "empty and meaningless". Abraham was the runner-up in X Factor's 2005 series, losing out to Shayne Ward in the final episode. Even If is his third album since he appeared on the programme.
August 5, 200816 yr Cowell describing the ESC as empty and meaningless? That's a bit f***ing rich of him :smoke:
August 5, 200816 yr 22? 42 more like. :smoke: Muahahaha. No - 40: There were 43 countries in the Contest this year. You can't vote for yourselves, so that puts it down to 42. Ireland and San Marino gave us points (8 and 6 respectively), so that puts it down to 40. No-one else voted for us, and I have to agree with them. Edited August 5, 200816 yr by DitzyNizzy
August 6, 200816 yr Author Just seen on OikoTimes that the United Kingdom got eight points from the Turkish back-up jury. :o So that's eight from them and ten from Bulgaria that we know of. Bizarre.
August 6, 200816 yr I'm hardly surprised...its very much the sort of song a jury would go for... the general public tend to vote more for performance over song I suppose
August 6, 200816 yr Author It'd be interesting to see all of the jury votes from everywhere, but they're not widely available at all. Bring back the national juries I say! :arrr: It actually would make the voting procedure so more exciting though.
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