It’s the second semi-final of this this evening – BBC3, 8pm-10pm. Paddy O’Connell and Sarah Cawood are your guides.
As ever, if you’re watching, feel free to give your opinions on the songs along with marks out of ten. Someone will tot them up to form a result for the Bother’s Bar jury.
And this is the semi-final we can vote in by telephone if you live in the UK.
Georgia
Pretty.
…Umm. Wait. Meant to be commenting on the song not the guys chests.
Generic ballad. Suffers from being after Croatia… Did not like that sudden volume change.
Dancing.
Doesn’t quite work for me, but a well performed not quite working for me.
…Oh, dropping half a point for that ending.
5.5/10
Croatia: Average. 6/10.
I presume you mean Georgia there.
Yeah, them.
Turkey: I voted for them. Pretty much my favourite entry through this entire contest. Nice bit of Anatolian angsty rock. Well, because Finland won’t any more…9/10.
Well this is a crazy act from Turkey.
A guy dressed like a Power Ranger, and flashing lights that you’d think could cause the odd seizure…
Turkey
Flashing light, strobe, leather, and Stig striptease warnings, apparently.
…Generic Glam Rock then.
Unfortunately that carries over to the tune, not just the stylings.
Oh, it’s a CylonStig.
Not seen the promised strip tease yet.
Oh. strip tease with a circular saw. Umm.
8/10
Right, our predictions
Slovenia 8.75 tied 12pts
Turkey 8.75 tied 12pts
Lithuania 8.67 8pts
Romania 8.25 7pts
Armenia 8 6pts
Bulgaria 7.75 5pts
Ukraine 7.5 4pts
Cyprus 7 3pts
Denmark 6.75 tied 2pts
Switzerland 6.75 tied 2pts
I recorded my 9 as a 9.5 argh. Anyway, switch Lithuania with Turkey, as Turkey’s now an 8.5.
Unformatted results from the Bar:
Gizensha Alex Pyro Des Average
Lithuania 8 9 9 8.666666667
Armenia 8 8 8 8
Israel 6 7 6.5
Denmark 8 5.5 6.75
Switzerland 7 6.5 6.75
Swedon 6.5 6 6.25
Azerbijan 6 5 5.5
Ukraine 8 7 7.5
The Netherlands 9.5 3 6.25
Romania 8.5 8 8.25
Slovinia 10 7 8.5
Ireland 6 7 8 7
Bulgaria 7.5 8 7.75
Cyprus 7.5 6.5 7
Croatia 6.5 5.5 6
Georgia 5.5 6 5.75
Turkey 8 9 8.5
…Isn’t this sort of thing banned under the genevia convention?
…My sort is refusing to work.
I did it manually. But I suppose it’s the same.
Wait, I have this quite wong.
Slovenia 8.75 tied 12pts
Lithuania 8.67 10pts
Turkey 8.5 8pts
Romania 8.25 7pts
Armenia 8 6pts
Bulgaria 7.75 5pts
Ukraine 7.5 4pts
Cyprus 7 tied 3pts
Ireland 7 tied 3pts
Denmark 6.75 tied 1pt
Switzerland 6.75 tied 1pt
…But only on the averages. Odd. I’ll be doing the score thing between me Alex and the metamind, Alex will do for the Bother’s Bar jury results, though I don’t think includes Pyro’s two votes or Des’s one.
Actually, after looking at the run-through of all of tonight’s acts, it doesn’t look like the chances of Niamh and Ireland getting through are tremendously high… 🙁
Turkey and Lithuania will be back on Saturday for sure after their crazy displays, and I wouldn’t say no about Armenia, Romania, Ukraine and Slovenia either.
Plus expect at least one act that hasn’t rated highly here, like Azerbaijan (one of the pre-contest favourites, don’t forget) or Georgia to be performing again in two nights’ time…
I’ve still got my fingers crossed for Niamh, mind.
I missed Des’s vote. That was it.
I think we can all agree that this semi was far better than Tuesday’s, though.
Paddy doesn’t think there’s any doubt we’re watching Eurovision.
“There are a lot of rules” says one of the hosts.
“And they change every year.” comments Paddy.
Those child doubles again – plus two senior doubles…
…We follow Greece, apparently.
Slovinian commentators are using Paddy’s wall as a drum kit.
The ‘magic envelopes’ (i.e. cgi) again.
Georgia.
I said at least one act not rated highly here would go through…
Finalist #1 – Georgia
Ukraine. No surprise there.
Hey, yesterday a 5.75 from us would have been in our midtable.
Ukraine’s the second finalist.
Finalist #3 – Turkey
Glad Georgia made it through
Finalist #4 – Israel
One would have been a fool to say that Turkey wouldn’t go through.
Finalist #5 – Ireland.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Finalist #6 – Cyprus
Good to see Cyprus through too.
Really hoping that Romania gets through, but so far, I’m liking the top 5
Finalist #7
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan. No real surprise.
Azerbaijan people are sexy. I voted for tem
Paddy suspicious of just how random these envelopes are
Finalist #8
Romania
Romania. Yep.
Finalist #9
Armenia
Ok I’m happy Romania in
Armenia. Yep again.
Finalist #10 – Denmark
Alex got 6/10
I got 6/10
The bar metamind got 6.5/10
Wow I’m suprised Lithuania didnt make it though, they were a favorite from what I heard
R.I.P Slovenia and Lithuania. I’ll remember you 🙁
Lithuania NOT through!!!
I take back what I said about them being back on Saturday for sure.
RTE’s Marty Whelan is surprised that Sweden didn’t make it – but I’m not really. Nice to see Denmark through, though.
But it’s GREAT that Niamh will be on again in two nights’ time!!! 😀 😀
Here we go, the finals