[Morgsie]

A Little Bit More

[Birchington]

It still is a brilliant song despite the cheese. The funniest thing about her Eurovision performance is the random retro 1990s computer monitors that aren't even switched on!

[obi_adorno_kenobi]

Really though, we'd kind of have to win it with some kind of god-awful Europop number. Kind of like:

[Birchington]

That's the sort of thing we need! The rest of Europe love cheese. I had forgotten about Alphabeat but they did have a few good songs a while back. Here's hoping the Fast Food Rockers regroup.

[Morgsie]

2007 again?

We had Europop in that year, Flying the Flag by Scooch

[Mechie]

(Original post by Morgsie)
2007 again?

We had Europop in that year, Flying the Flag by Scooch

That was quite obviously a pisstake

[Birchington]

The amount of innuendo Scooch managed to get away with was brilliant.

[JPKC]

I was rooting for Albania just for having the sheer chutzpah to send an experimental jazz singer. Ukraine sent a black woman, probably the first most of Eastern Europe have ever seen let alone voted for, so a bit of progress there.

[Mechie]

(Original post by Birchington)
The amount of innuendo Scooch managed to get away with was brilliant.

Would you like something to suck on during landing, sir?

[obi_adorno_kenobi]

There's Europop and then there's camp pisstakes. Britain does the latter.

[Mechie]

(Original post by obi_adorno_kenobi)
There's Europop and then there's camp pisstakes. Britain does the latter.

And long may it continue!

[Morgsie]

(Original post by davidmarsh01)
Would you like something to suck on during landing, sir?

Would you like a complimentary drink to go with your nuts?

[Birchington]

Anyone remember Cyndi? She might have flown our flag instead of Scooch that year. Undecided about which is the better song.

[Thunder and Jazz]

I'm sorry, if we don't take it seriously, why do we care?

[Birchington]

I would love us to win again at some point, but we do need to be more serious about it. It would be awesome to see Eurovision held in somewhere like the O2 - an amazing venue.

[obi_adorno_kenobi]

The reality is that for a long time we did take it quite seriously. For instance:




The intro stuff is in Dutch, alas, but look at the images of early 1990s Britain. Amazing how far we have developed in the last 20 years.

[Morgsie]

(Original post by obi_adorno_kenobi)
The reality is that for a long time we did take it quite seriously. For instance:




The intro stuff is in Dutch, alas, but look at the images of early 1990s Britain. Amazing how far we have developed in the last 20 years.

Better the Devil You Know by Sonia.

Both times we came second.

[Birchington]

Imaani from 1998 was also a great entry. Until we stop sending dross, we're not going to win. Jade Ewen and Andrew Lloyd Webber did well in 2009 because it was a great, powerful song.

I still have a soft spot for Love Shine a Light.

[obi_adorno_kenobi]

(Original post by Birchington)
I still have a soft spot for Love Shine a Light.

Yeah. That whole year seemed like a completely different country was coming together. No more Tories, winning Eurovision with a cracker of a song, and the rise of true Britpop and various phenomena like Cwl Cymru. How naive we all were!

[TopHat]

In fairness, historically we're joint 2nd for most Eurovision wins.