Little enough being made of the threat to this great competition. Typical modern journalism really - everyone burying their heads in the sand and praying it will be fine.
Greece and Cyprus the latest to the consider pulling out of the 2013 tournament. Poland and Portugal are already confirmed absentees. Hungary, Czech, Montenegro and Andorra all refused to take part last year.
I’m not sure how we should best deal with the rebel republics. Portugal and Greece should have bailout funds stopped immediately obviously. Little surprise that two countries who can’t manage their domestic economies can’t manage their Eurovision entries either. For the rest it will just have to be economic, sporting and musical sanctions. This great institution should not fold because backward cultural cesspit cannot sustain their interest.
Spot on. It’s bitterness dressed up as an economic decision for most of them. Greece are saying they “can’t afford” it yet I bet they’ll be well able to keep the Parthenon open for another year.
Portugal are blaming tv ratings. Obvious solution would be to put it on more channels but they decide to pull out completely. Fools.
Poles pulled out because they said they can’t afford to host next year if they won it. The fact that they can never get past the first round has nothing to do with it. Can never understand how they can’t pick a few lookers that everyone would vote for.
Mairead Farrell from the Ray Darcy show is involved with song 5. I can’t like this song apart from the fact that Farrell likes to show a lot of cleavage on her TV appearances.
2 is the only choice here. It doesn’t sound like a winner on first listen but the rest are so bad that no other possible decision can be arrived at. I don’t think we’ll be gracing the final this year whatever happens.
Austria and Lithuania sound like they’ll make a strong push this year based on those snippets. I’ve been quite impressed with the solid, classic Eurovision nature of the Austrian entries in recent years.