Eurovision Song Contest

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Does anyone know how you enter a song into the Eurovision Song Contest? Too late for this year, but might make it an aim to enter one for next year :D
 
Try writing to the BBC. They used to play a big part in determining which songs the public heard and made a choice on.
 
Thanks GT. I have emailed the BBC, I was just hoping there was a sort of direct path. No links can I find on the Eurovision site itself. This years UK song was written by Pete Waterman. I think last years was Andrew Lloyd Webber. Looks like its the same old faces being chosen to write the actual songs. :mad:
 
I thought from about '67 to when the Brotherhood of man won it with "Save your kisses for me" in '76, the eurovision threw up some exceptionally good songs like "Puppet on a string", "Congratulations", "All kinds of everything", "Beg, steal or borrow", "Power to all our friends", "Waterloo", "Ding dong"....... We used to watch it every year and laugh heartilly when Norway would get 0. They seemed to get it every year or maybe it's just one of those exaggerated memories.....I'd be on the edge because it always ran overtime and preceded "Match of the day" which was the evening's real proceedings for me. The last one I watched was in '83 but if you get one in the prelims next year, that'll give me a reason. :cool:
 
Enter for Ireland! It's a song contest over here (how weird is that!) so anyone can enter. Anyone, that is, with "...valid visas as shall allow that person to travel to and attend (and in the case of the performer perform at) the Eurosong 2010 in Ireland and, if selected as the winning entry of Eurosong 2010, the ESC 2010 in..."

I would think that includes you. Anyway you're from Liverpool so you're probably Irish anyway!

Info here: http://www.rte.ie/tv/eurovision/

In truth its not really a song contest though. Its Euro X-factor. Big difference.
 
Apparently, there's always, right back to the early 60s, been much politikking and shenanigans attached to it.
 
Used to be an open song writing contest here in the UK, baed on an entry and paying a fee.

But in the past couple of years the door seems to have been closed and people like Andrew Loyd-Webber have been given the job of writing the tune.

Another door closed to outsiders !
 
Why would anyone want to take part in this POS of a contest, nowadays?:cool:
 
you're just scared Joey...get that song written for next years Malta entry..."Rockin all Over the EU with Satan and a Eurotrack Ticket"...its got win written all over it :)
 
joeym said:
Why would anyone want to take part in this POS of a contest, nowadays?:cool:
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To escape the day job?
To have their song performed in front of several hundred million audience?
To make essential music biz contacts?
To get noticed?

Same reasons people enter American Idol is suppose.
 
kcearl said:
you're just scared Joey...get that song written for next years Malta entry..."Rockin all Over the EU with Satan and a Eurotrack Ticket"...its got win written all over it :)
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I did try once, Keith, 1998......came in 10th place in the maltese selection festival. It turns out my ass wasn't as sexy as that of the 3 girl band that won it and sang for Malta.....:D

Did it for laughs anyway....and we had plenty of those:drunk:
 
To escape the day job? - dream on...starry-eyed
To have their song performed in front of several hundred million audience? - you mean several hundred million idiots without a taste for good music...?
To make essential music biz contacts? - really??? And how many of the winners in the last 10 years have made an international career by winning the contest??
To get noticed? - if you took a walk naked in Hyde Park you could get noticed too.....:D

Face up to it, this contest would just give you your 15 mins of fame and nothing more. But for some that could be enough.....:cool:

Same reasons people enter American Idol is suppose - AI and all its copies in Europe are a POS too, no doubt about that....:rolleyes:
 
joeym said:
To escape the day job? - dream on...starry-eyed
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Of course it's a dream, doesn't stop people entering, I don't see your point.

joeym said:
To have their song performed in front of several hundred million audience? - you mean several hundred million idiots without a taste for good music...?
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That's your judgement. You don't like the Eurovision, don't watch. Other people might think YOU have poor taste in music! It's all subjective opinion. To those who don't like football everyone who watches the superbowl could be described as an idiot! Doesn't get us very far.

joeym said:
To make essential music biz contacts? - really??? And how many of the winners in the last 10 years have made an international career by winning the contest??
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Virtually all of them have made a NATIONAL career at least. Look them up - google a few. They can make a living for the rest of their days on the basis of winning this contest. Not superstardom, but certainly no need for a day job any more. One success opens doors to other things in life.

joeym said:
To get noticed? - if you took a walk naked in Hyde Park you could get noticed too.....:D

Face up to it, this contest would just give you your 15 mins of fame and nothing more. But for some that could be enough.....:cool:
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15 minutes that change your life - Just because Dana International (Israeli tranvestite winner) may not be shifting records and appearing on TV in your country doesn't mean that she ain't earning a nice living somewhere.

joeym said:
Same reasons people enter American Idol is suppose - AI and all its copies in Europe are a POS too, no doubt about that....:rolleyes:
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Don't get me wrong, I'm not massive fan of these talent comps, but i can understand why people enter, and for some it works - they become full time showbiz people faster than might otherwise have been the case, if ever.
 
That it's a shitty gig in somes' opinions is kind of irrelevant - to others it's the scenic route to the north in a charabang as opposed to driving the faster motorway in a truck.
 
joeym said:
I did try once, Keith, 1998......came in 10th place in the maltese selection festival. It turns out my ass wasn't as sexy as that of the 3 girl band that won it and sang for Malta.....:D

Did it for laughs anyway....and we had plenty of those:drunk:
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lol...I knew your previous posts had bitter written all over them...you know it was your chance of the big time and turning transvestite for the Israeli vote!! :D
 
BTW Joey..AI is a copy of the British programme Pop Idol...it was them that copied the Europeans!!! :D


Apart from that...yes the eurovision is a peice of shit with IRA connections to keep the Brits down :eek: ;)
 
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Because it is there?
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Im almost sure that performing in the Eurovision nowadays could damage a young performers career rather than help it...writing an song for it would be different story but can you imagine coming, say third, in the UK heat to appear in it?

I doubt anyone would touch you with a barge pole you'd be so unmarketable...:o
 
kcearl said:
Im almost sure that performing in the Eurovision nowadays could damage a young performers career rather than help it...writing an song for it would be different story but can you imagine coming, say third, in the UK heat to appear in it?

I doubt anyone would touch you with a barge pole you'd be so unmarketable...:o
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Yeah, Keith....these kids just don't get it.:D
 
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