http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/tags.php?tag=eurovision The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Tue, 21 May 2013 10:26:29 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=7340#post-19704 Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:04:08 +0000 Peter 19704@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>English football fans were celebrating again today as news emerged that Germany were 100% guaranteed to not win the current world cup.</p> <p>Many leading tabloid newspapers this morning reported on the work of Edwin Jenkins, a leading professor of statistics at Durham University who claims that no country has ever won the Eurovision Song Contest and a major international football tournament in the same year. Prof. Jenkins is quoted as saying "Thorough research has shown that once a nation had claimed glory in Europe's premier popularity contest it becomes statistically impossible for that country's football team to win a major competition." When asked about the apparently unrelated nature of the two events Jenkins replied, "Just look at the facts, in the 54 year history of the competition no country has done the double."</p> <p>One paper even went so far as to claim that a winning Eurovision entry significantly increases the likelihood of cancer amongst footballers of the same nationality.</p> <p>In a press conference this afternoon German Eurovision winner, Lena, has apologised to the national team, and fellow countrymen for costing them the world cup. "I know I had a good song, but lets face it I didn't expect to win. With all the political voting, we all expected one of the Balkan states to win. Germany has never been too popular with our neighbours," she said, "Anyway at least we beat the English." </p> <p>Meanwhile in the UK, Pete Waterman is being hailed as a hero for giving England the best possible chance in the World Cup by entering the song 'That Sounds Good To Me' into the 2010 competition. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5569#post-15159 Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:23:53 +0000 andrewmellor 15159@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>EU leaders assembled in Brussels today in an attempt to break the deadlock over what constitutes ‘tasteful’ popular music. The crisis talks follow Saturday’s Eurovision Song Contest in which nation states demonstrated ‘woeful misunderstanding’ of previous directives on so-called Euro-Pop and unwittingly voted for a song without a kitsch dance routine and with no obviously discernable upward key-change as the contest’s winner.</p> <p>‘It’s deeply concerning that contestants should be denied points despite following the letter of the law on Eurovision’, said a spokesman for the contest. He referred by implication to Iceland and Georgia, who despite offering relentlessly up-beat songs employing obvious harmonic progressions and synchronized dance routines, still failed to score highly.</p> <p>Veteran Eurovision commentator Andre von Strunckel railed against what he called ‘clueless’ voting patterns on the night of the contest. ‘For nations to take it upon themselves to reward fringe, quasi-indie acoustic musical styles at Eurovision is a gross dereliction of duty’, he said. His sentiments were immediately echoed – though a semitone higher – by a group of Georgian backing vocalists. </p> <p>After Germany initiated an emergency appeal to Eurovision’s general council this week, Iceland and Greece have agreed to plug the country’s Euro-Pop black hole with ‘appropriately naff, nostalgic and camp’ songwriters and choreographers in time for next year’s contest in Berlin. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5334#post-14599 Sun, 30 May 2010 13:32:26 +0000 virtuallywill 14599@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><img src="http://hub.tv-ark.org.uk/images/itvsouth/southern/continuity/southern_television_closedown_261277b.jpg"> </p>