Eurovision Rewatch: Birmingham 1998 - 20.00 GMT tonight (25/3)

[octophone]

Oh, were we meant to do scores? Sorry.

 

[lolly]

12 Israel
10 Netherlands
08 Portugal
07 Ireland
06 UK
05 Sweden
04 Germany
03 Malta
02 Belgium
01 Croatia

 

[Penelope]

Voting open for 5 minutes!

To think we still can't text!

Pagers ALL THE RAGE!!

 

[AGinAg (37)]

How are you THAT QUICK.

Hang on...

It's been 22 shitting years!

 

[Lucille]

Imma jack it in...can't cope with the scoring.

I'd be up for another of these tho'. Maybe one a bit less hokey and without an obvious nonce as a supposed highlight.

It’s the best bit!

 

[straightorbroken]

I'm only now appreciating just how much hairspray must have been involved in Ireland woman.

 

[Penelope]

Dawn Martin utterly RESPLENDENT in recap

 

[Tisch]

12 Israel
10 UK
08 Poland
06 Netherland
05 Ireland
04 Croatia
03 France
02 Germany
01 Estonia

 

[Lucille]

I’d give Norway 8 (it’s an innuendo!)

 

[Dark Carnival]

12 Israel
10 UK
Can't be bothered with the rest

 

[straightorbroken]

Imagine Dana with today’s staging budget

I hear silent prayers

 

[Lucille]

12 Israel
10 UK
Can't be bothered with the rest

AMIRIGHT.

God Wogan is INSUFFERABLE. He’s dead now right?!?

 

[Tisch]

It's been 22 shitting years!

Actually a very good point

 

[Madison]

Something like this:

12 Israel
10 Netherlands
08 Cyprus
07 Croatia
06 United Kingdom
05 Switzerland
04 Sweden
03 Poland
02 Ireland
01 Slovakia

 

[Tisch]

AMIRIGHT.

God Wogan is INSUFFERABLE. He’s dead now right?!?

yes

 

[Lucille]

Bagpipes to Bangra! This is where Brexit started.

 

[win_the_game]

12 Israel
10 France
08 United Kingdom
07 Ireland
06 Finland
05 Netherlands
04 Malta
03 Sweden
02 FYR Macedonia
01 Greece

 

[straightorbroken]

Are we not getting a Walking on Sunshine interval act?

 

[Lucille]

I fucking love ‘Jupiter’ though.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

So VoR WASN'T the first Moopy poster to appear on Eurovision @Jonathan King

 

[VoR]

12 Israel
10 Netherlands
08 United Kingdom
07 Croatia
06 Sweden
05 Malta
04 Ireland
03 Slovakia
02 Belgium
01 Portugal

 

[Madison]

My real 12 points go to the interval act.

 

[Dark Carnival]

Honest question, around what year did Eurovision become actually FUN?

 

[Lucille]

Honest question, around what year did Eurovision become actually FUN?

SERIOUSLY!

 

[VoR]

Poor Katrina relegated to BRIEF SHOUT OUT ONLY while all this goes on.

 

[Lucille]

What happened to Bangra! You never hear about it anymore!

 

[VoR]

Honest question, around what year did Eurovision become actually FUN?

1999

 

[Tisch]

What the fresh hell is this and where is katrina?

 

[octophone]

It’s the best bit!

Mebbez but I'm going to have to listen to some Nurse With Wound to recalibrate my brain.

 

[Dark Carnival]

1999

Well it was a great year for pop!

 

[Penelope]

So VoR WASN'T the first Moopy poster to appear on Eurovision @Jonathan King

Don't forget DAZ!

 

[Lucille]

 

[AGinAg (37)]

Ah the empire.

 

[COB]

Vanessa Mae!

 

[AGinAg (37)]

Vanessa Mae!

Now what the FUCK happened to her!

 

[Penelope]

1999

From @Tetris-Rock and I's rewatch when @Suomi went to BED halfway through, I BEG TO DIFFER

2000

 

[Dark Carnival]

Vanessa Mae?

 

[Madison]

I never knew olympic skier Vanessa Mae could play the violin.

 

[Lucille]

Is that actually Vanessa Mae??? HONESTLY.

This is so New Labour! Remember when WE LIKED multiculturalism!

 

[Tisch]

Why have they put Vanessa Mae in one of those wrap around things they put round people when they finish marathons?