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Amazing to see an original movie like 'Sinners' performing so well, though it doesn't look like my kind of thing at all from the trailer. I feel so out of the loop at the minute as I've only seen one of the current top 10 ('The Penguin Lessons'). Probably won't be any better with the next chart as I'm going to see 'The Wedding Banquet' today, but it must be quite a low-key release if it's not even included in the list of openings for this week.

I will go Draper in three sets. Doubt it will be as dominant as the Indian Wells victory given how good Ruud normally is on clay, but Casper really had to fight in his SF (and really I think it was Cerúndolo throwing it away, getting broken back each time he broke the Ruud serve)

Jack Draper through to his second Masters final of the year in Madrid, and he's now reached an ATP Tour final on all three surfaces.. If Casper Ruud goes and wins the biggest title of his career now, after just falling outside of the top 10, I will not be impressed

Inspired by the thread that I noticed in the BJSC forum People can do this how they like, but I'm excluding Eurovision live shows and pre-party events as that would tick off all/most acts from any year that I've attended, and going more down the route of acts I've sought out/intentionally seen live themselves outside of the contest Headline shows Sam Ryder (x3?) Saara Aalto (x3?) Cornelia Jakobs (x3 + Euroclub appearance) Benjamin Ingrosso (x2) Marcus & Martinus Olly Alexander (x1 solo, x1 as part of Years & Years) SuRie (at least 3 times, including a Pizza Express gig) Eleni Foureira Go_A (x2) Lucie Jones (x2 + theatre performances) Hatari Käärijä Loreen Duncan Laurence Måneskin KEiiNO Joker Out Måns Zelmerlöw Pasha Parfeni Marina Satti (pre-"Zari") Ladaniva Wild Youth (joint show with Joker Out) Bambie Thug Victoria Baby Lasagna Netta (x2) Kate Miller-Heidke ABBA (hologram versions ) ---upcoming--- Sakis Rouvas Nemo Damiano David (solo) The Rasmus Club nights/Pride events/support acts etc Emmelie de Forest (60th anniversary of ABBA win concert) Charlotte Perrelli (Euroclub in Liverpool) Katrina Michael Rice (Eurobash & Pride event) Nicki French (Pride event) Lindsay Dracass (Eurovision cruise & Pride event) Jemini (Euroclub in Liverpool) Euroband (Eurofest) Anna Bergendahl (Eurofest) Robin Bengtsson (Eurovision cruise) Jerry Heil Sanna Nielsen Fame Paula Seling and Ovi (EuroStarz) Teya and Salena (EuroStarz) TuralTuranX (SF2 watch-party in Liverpool) Gustaph (Eurobash & Eurovision cruise) Anne-Marie David (Eurobash) Hera Björk (Eurovillage performance 2024) Johnny Logan (60th anniversary of ABBA win concert) Linda Martin (Eurobash) Claudia Faniello (EuroStarz) Slavko (Eurovision cruise) Esther Hart (Eurobash) Elisabeth Andreassen (Eurobash) Luna (support act for Loreen) Suzy (Eurobash) Luke Black (Eurobash) Scott Fitzgerald (EuroStarz) No doubt forgetting some people that I've seen at a EuroStarz or a Eurofest, but I think that's a long enough list as it is 😅

The past few weeks I've been so bad at judging how well new releases are going to perform, I'm glad it's not just me from reading your commentary Lewis 😅 I'm now up to 19 cinema trips this year, and I don't remember seeing the trailer for "The Amateur" once, only noticed the poster for it a few times. Meanwhile, I was seeing the trailers for "Novocaine" and "Death of a Unicorn" constantly, thought both looked like fun movies with cool concepts and both opened with half of what "The Amateur" has managed 🤨

Wow at Minecraft, I didn't expect it to be beating the opening of Bridget Jones level of huge (especially as it was quite a good weekend weather wise) - everyone conveniently forgot about the trailer looking awful then? And how we should all be boycotting Jack Black 😂 Not that it was going to interest me as I've never played the games. Very impressive for Six, and very well deserved as it's an excellent show.

Racing from one track to the next looks cool, as does the knockout mode! Will pre-order Switch 2 purely based on this being a launch title, amazing that it's only two months away. 😍

You're old enough to have a nephew of working age? 🤔🤔🤔

Numbers for Novocaine look really underwhelming this week, I'm surprised, I really enjoyed it and had seen the trailer every time I went to the cinema over the past couple of months (excluding before the U & PG releases like Flow and Snow White obvs) Compared to A Working Man, I don't recall seeing the trailer for that once, and I think I'd only seen posters in cinemas rather than whilst out and about.

The running orders have been revealed Watching the videos without looking at the order beforehand, the gag of 'Gaja' (the only solo female entry in semi 1, excluding the AQs) being shoved on second 😦

Raducanu is through to the fourth round where she'll face Amanda Anisimova, a player who has won a WTA 1000 already this year, but also someone that Emma beat at the Australian Open this year 🤔 So that could be an interesting match

I don't think I realised just how similar they are until I was at a Eurovision quiz the other night and "Strobe Lights" came on, and one of my friends was like 'I'm not really a fan of this one, it's Cyprus isn't it'. On first listen I thought it was quite messy, but I'm really coming round to it, had it stuck in my head all day yesterday. And ngl, he's definitely the eye candy of the year.

During the live reveal I got caught up in the whole 'oh this isn't the nailed on Eurovision winner that we were all hoping for', but with the studio version and now knowing what to expect when I listen to it, this is really beautiful and builds really nicely throughout. Still a potential jury winner at the very least, perhaps it'll come down to the staging as to whether this or Austria takes the jury?

Amazing performance, not facing a single break point. If I hadn't got out of work slightly early, I probably wouldn't have caught any of the match, he got it done so quickly Up to #7 in the rankings tomorrow and extremely close to #5. Second consecutive Masters title for Mirra Andreeva in the women's side

Definitely a race worth being up at 4am for. Glad Piastri managed to get back into the race and into the points, I felt my heart breaking when it looked like he might have been out in not just the first race of the year, but his home race, after managing to complete every lap of 2024! Nice to have someone else leading the drivers championship for the first time since Spain 2022(?)