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Another year, Another contest.
Once all the talking has stopped about last years contest (let's move on - we really didn't do well!), what are the hopes for this year?
No news yet on the BBC website, but whats the lowdown so far on Making Your Mind Up 2006?
bbc.co.uk/eurovision
Once all the talking has stopped about last years contest (let's move on - we really didn't do well!), what are the hopes for this year?
No news yet on the BBC website, but whats the lowdown so far on Making Your Mind Up 2006?
bbc.co.uk/eurovision
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I think it's gonna be another week or two before the BBC announces anything. Lisa Scott-Lee was mentioned but think it was a false rumour. It would be quite amusing to see her defeated again.
I know Brian Kennedy is definitely singing for Ireland and Rednex are one of the favourites in Sweden.
Not that it would matter to Radio 1 anyway, they don't bother to play our Eurovision entrant EVER!
Also, on Radio 2s Sold On Song website, you can hear 10 songs written for MYMU, only one will feature in the final programme though, I'm not sure any of them are any good.
it's a shame only one will feature in the final programme
the quality of the sound is a bit iffy in all of the tracks, but
imo there are several songs better than last years winner
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/soldonsong/whatson/searchforasong.shtml
if it has to be just the one i'm going for the singer of song 8
X-Factor star Chico Slimani is one of the five acts who'll do battle to represent the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest. The ex-stripper and former Moroccan goatherder takes on fellow reality TV act Liberty X, Atomic Kitten cutie Natasha Hamilton, and up and coming perormers DJ Daz and Four Story. Chico, 34, who now lives in South London, is likely to sing his X-Factor hit Chico Time. Viewers will vote for a winner next month on the BBC1 show Making Your Mind Up. An insider said "competition is fierce".
It's very very believable. Liberty X are in desperate need of something like this because their album sales have been poor recently - Natasha needs some sort of gimmick. DJ Daz is the same guy who was behind Bus Stop's 1998 cover of "Kung Fu Fighting" and released The Whoah Song in parts of Europe last year (I know his manager) see www.djdaz.com and Four Story are a new grown-up ish boyband who are about to release their first single. http://www.music-house.co.uk/fcl/si...p?SingleID=1030
I must say I'd be rather annoyed if Chico won... great stage presence but very cheesy, was actually told he ought to do Eurovision by one of the judges on X-Factor (bit like Idols..). He'd be almost certain to win with Chico Time because everyone knows it already. Trying to remember the lyrics... you could get delerious if you take life too serioussssss! It's Chico Time! Awful.
Please not Chico :eek:
Liberty X on the otherhand, could do the damage and get a good result with a strong song.
After many successfully mounted a 'Stop Jordan Representing the UK' campaign last year, I fear we will have to mount a 'Stop Chico Representing the UK' campaign. Please no, why do the BBC persist with this. Putting in a credible act (oh please let it be true that Liberty X are doing it) and force them into a competition with an act of pure cheese!
If the Liberty X rumours are true : LIBERTY X - 12 POINTS!
Keep it on bbc.co.uk/eurovision for more
the eurovision song contest has been hijacted by vested interests..
we own the bbc not the record companies
The BBC have no intention of having a credible act having a decent song winning MYMU and thus having any chance of the UK winning (I think the Beeb remember the cost last time it was staged in Birmingham and have thoughtfully nobbled us forever more).
....hindsight suggests nobody will vote for us anyway so why bother (partisan voting, political voting, voting for the country next to you and what not).
Liberty X versus Chico will be a laugh and it'll be reminiscient of Javine vs Jordan. I expect Chico will be nobbled as the BBC don't want to be a complete laughing stock (internet vote will probably be the only one who'll make Chico their number one choice just like Jordan last year).
http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/5485?PHPSESSID=acd73b57c225c8584e0b3d187531b831
Mind you, they also denied last year that Jordan was taking part, so who knows if there is any truth to it?
Have heard, however, that Chico is releasing Chico Time as a single on February 27 - and since one of the rules of Eurovision is that your entry can't have been recorded before (correct me if I'm wrong, fellow Eurovision fans!), that would rule that song out of the running at least!
Out of interest, who would people like to see represent the UK? Any suggestions......?
I'm not entirely sure, but I think you can send a song in if it has been recorded since the last contest, which this will have been. Four Story's vid is on The Box too and James Fox released his song a few weeks before the 2004 contest.
unfortunately the balkan states, the eastern european
countries and the uk still treat it with contempt..
And it would be an event of high quality music if people like the BBC took it more seriously!
If we enetered a really good song and a really good singer we could win it - however with the BBC providing us with Chico and LSL we don't have that oportunity...which is a shame.
Regarding novelty entries, it depends whether we want to win it or not, we will never win with a novelty entry.
And yes, Political voting does take place but overall this does not greatly affect the overall result!
There we go...thats all my opinions... I'd love to see some talented singers, Journey South perhaps? - Two guys on a guitar, won for Denmark in 2000, Did well for Lativa last year - could do well for us!