Eurovision Song Contest 2006

Bosnia & Herzegovina (both of them) are performing a song called "Layla". Uh, I seem to remember that title being taken already...

Lol, Lithuania United...

"we are the winnners! we are the winners..."

Catchy...

Kudos to Lithuania for making a proper mockery of the whole event. Top 3 right there.

Daz Sampson singing performing for the UK now. There are 5 white men on this planet capable of rapping. Daz is not one of them.

EDIT: He finishes by shouting "vote for the music!". The only basis for that deserving a vote.

oh my god. what wtf was that UK entry???

@pootle -- do you not feel well-represented?

A couple great comments there ... couldn't agree more. I particularly liked when the "serious" guy from Lithuania walked up and then had a fit.

YES! FINLAND!

EDIT: I'm surprised he got through security with that big ole axe.

The cheeky little Romanian chappie who apparently has a five and a half octave range (of which he used about a ninetieth) looks like an extra from the Monkees but sounded OK. Baldi likes the Brit entry (has he got a thing about schoolgirls?) though all those singing schoolkids remind me of the bad old days of the hit parade (There's No-one Quite Like Grandma et al). They seem to be trying to get value for money out of the wind machine - now the Greek lady in the, er, uniquely designed floaty robe is flailing around in a howling gale, by the look of it (probably all that flailing is her trying to keep warm). Oh, sorry, the floaty robe is by Gaultier and cost thousands. I failed the fashion test.
Oo, Finland next, goody... f*ing great, sound like Lemmy and look like extras from Dr. Who, brilliant.

OK, that's the first time I've actually seen the Finnish Klingons perform. If they win, it's only for the costumes. Those are some of the WORST metal lyrics I've ever heard. Spinal Tap wrote far better songs!

I've only watched a few so far but my favourite has been Bosnia & Herzegovina (he reminded me of Patrick Bruel for some reason). I started off disliking LT United, but it was so obvious they were taking the piss that they should win. Finland was crap, it wasn't even hard rock, more like Rocky Horror meets hair metal. Funny though. The Greek song was ok... but her voice was too soft. I loved what she was wearing though. Spain las Ketchup - ugh, they can't sing.

aROCkalypse...

What a lyric...

Mrs. thejarvii just commented that Ukraine is the the Euro-Shakira (sp?).

EDIT: I liked the good looking singer and the jump roping.

If the Ukraine doesn't win after using a jump rope in the act, then this whole thing is obviously fixed.

Extra points to Ukraine for the muscly legs.
Song? Oh yeah.
Crap, including the mandolin solo. She sounds like a gym teacher.
Edit: Baldi understood the lyrics as "Show me your love, I hate your mother, dear". Shurely shome mistake.

The German announcer agrees with you!

The song reminded me of Alice Cooper for some reason... Certainly not what I was expecting.

Certainly they could have found someone in all France actually able to hit the right notes

Wow, France sucks.

Comment about France from Peter Urban on ARD - "Contemplative song, pity about the bum notes"

Shall we hook Croatia off right now?

edit: did I hear the words "Shits! Shits!" among the lyrics?

what's that with croatia
folk festival now ;-)

Has France ever sung a song not in French in this competition? If I recall correctly, they are also stuborn when announcing the results with the whole language bit. I'm looking forward to that already.

BOOOOOOOOOOOONG ... oh, there goes the gong. (ok, nobody probably knows of the gong show so disregard this post.)

if i am to trust my boyfriend as a news source, the croatian girlie is a former pornstar...he "read" about it somewhere

did she just sing "africa-paprika"???!

yeah right

what's with the grey-haired short munchkin back-up singer for the irish??!!!

the going to sleep song now ;-)

Brian Kennedy looks like someone woke him up from under a bridge. And what's with the leprechaun in the background? No wonder Brian keeps shaking his head, he's not convinced either.
Baldi is going mad. "Get up you bollix, stand up like a man, get up off yer knees you fckin' eejit!"
edit: persik beat me to it.

Was Finland's song a cry for love?

I was looking forward to Ireland since I've actually heard of Brian Kennedy, but it was the wrong song. He's got the pipes to do so much better.

Is Ireland's singer Colin Farrell's brother, or what? Even the bushy eyebrows!

invincible vs. we are the winner ...tough fight for sure ;-)

Sweden's outfit is a cross between a hot-air balloon and an explosion in a spangle factory.

the white flags really make a great match for the invincible topic ;-)

I particularly liked how the backup singers had to double as the skirt fanners while they sang.

what is that with the turkish guys wearing stars...shouldn't it be halfmoons? ;-)

There's something sort of ... wrong about Turkey's features. Not just that she has tattooed bingo wings and spare tyres. Just... wrong...

can the shortness of the turkish singers dress be topped?

is this an SM scene portrayed by this armenian group?

ummmm...croatia...ukraine???!!!

What's with the girl singing on her own at the back in Armenia's entry...?

Or is she going to do a Lt United, and have a fit in a minute...

As the last entry, Armenia obviously had to make do with whatever was left over in the wardrobe and stage set department (sorry mate, no more pianos to jump around on, but here's an old cheese grater)

Looks like you were correct.

ummm...croatia...ukraine??!!

edit: don't know why that posted weird...

@hmspresident: if that was her solo, she blew it

are you guys going to vote? for whom?

OK everyone...post your top 5.

Where can I score one of those gold suits?

i love it how they described the host maria menounus or whatever her name is as "successful american acctress"...jesus, she was just a reporter for that crappy show "entertainement tonight"...

they're digging out the old greeks now...next we're gonna see aristotle and euclid ;-)