mikelincs

Thw EU is currently arranging for enough tugs to tow Australia to just off Lands End, well they must be going to do someyjong like that, how else will they qualify to take part in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2015. It will be the first time Australia has taken part in the 60 years of the concert
No it's not April 1st, it's actually going to happen.

Australia in Eurovision 2015: our music critics react | Music | The Guardian

DeadVim

Eurovision is very popular here, I don't see the big deal with guesting for a year.

It's hardly a diplomatic incident given the artistic standards and the voting is rigged anyway.

GarryP

Eurovision has always been a joke, musically. Anything good that turns up there, turns up by accident.

Thus there is no point trying to push an kind of decent music towards it - what would be the point?

I see it as a tourism possibility mainly - pushing the idea of visiting Australia to the European market. Thus good looking, bikinis, and light banal pop.

Either that or Rolf Harris.....

knockoff nige

Excuse me but Ireland was winning it when it was cool. Not cool I guess but not as naff or camp.

And we did introduce River Dance to world in one which then didn't stop tapping it's feet for about 15 years. Maybe it's still going.

And then Jedward happened. Sorry about that.

mikelincs

It also gave the world ABBA

GarryP

As I say, anything good turning up there was basically by mistake. Those were the only two good mistakes over the many decades involved.

The rest of it was/is banal (specifically INCLUDING the irish wins).

So forget it as musical contest. From a European perspective it's a chance to laugh at the neighbours and piss them off - unless you are gay in which case its an opportunity to act camp.

For Australia it's basically a musical tourism leaflet.

mikelincs

What the organisers need to do, is this year put the fiz in so that Australia win, then next year it must be held in the winning country, so all over to yours them

GarryP

Apparently even if Australia won, it would have to be held in Europe.

Which is daft, coz it would be fun to see it held on a beach in the morning sunshine, whilst people in Europe were in the cold and dark.

knockoff nige

It also introduced us to the Hot House Flowers.

If you want to hear a truely awesome Irish tune, do a YouTube on 'Si do Mhaimeo'.

Charismatic

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Pollyana

Australia could never match that!!!

irishbloo

Oh,I think they could.

Swerv-o

I suspect it will be completely huge in Australia, right up to the point where they don't win, and then there will be no mention of it again...


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scrubbedexpat098

Yu lot are forgetting the mighty Johnny logan and Bucks Fizz, it's brilliantly shite and I think Australia has a lot to offer. It's a bloody shame that land down under and tie me kangaroo down have already been released, both of em dead set winners.

knockoff nige

They should be so lucky.