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Eurovision Bingo 2024 Live Blog!
No live blog is complete without some bingo card suggestions. Of course, if you want to have a glass of drink every time you spot one of these things, you’re welcome, but drinking is optional. Instead, you can simply shout “Rim Tim Tagi Dim!” or “Ram-di-dum-dum-dum!” or what part of the text is already stuck in your brain. Here are my suggestions…
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✨✨✨ Costume change! ✨✨✨
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✨✨✨ Keytar! ✨✨✨
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✨✨✨ One of the leading rapiers! ✨✨✨
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✨✨✨ Someone says the night/songs were “wonderful”! ✨✨✨
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✨✨✨ The show is designed to look great on TV, but it looks terrible in the hall! ✨✨✨
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✨✨✨ Unexpected use of French! ✨✨✨
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✨✨✨ An artist has his dog in his postcard! ✨✨✨
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✨✨✨ A painfully high note is delivered! ✨✨✨
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✨✨✨ The song features a middle eight that seems entirely made to facilitate the choreography! ✨✨✨
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✨✨✨ Twelve points from Greece to Cyprus! ✨✨✨
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✨✨✨ You are a live blogger, you make a typo! [THAT’S THE JOKE] ✨✨✨
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✨✨✨ A cynical “uplifting” key change right at the end of the song! ✨✨✨
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✨✨✨ The wind machine is activated! ✨✨✨
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✨✨✨ Too long pause delivering Douze points when we’re already behind! ✨✨✨
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✨✨✨ Joanna Lumley! ✨✨✨
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✨✨✨ Someone presses the button to make fire appear on the stage! ✨✨✨
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✨✨✨ The boys are bare chested again! ✨✨✨
Key events
As everyone reminds everyone, no one ever won after coming in second. This will be close to the top but not a winner?
✨✨✨ The wind machine is activated! ✨✨✨
2: 🇺🇦 Ukraine: alyona alyona and Jerry Heil – Teresa and Maria
There’s a bit of Bronski Beat’s Smalltown Boy in the opening chord sequence, but it soon starts to sound like a cross between the traditional Ukrainian chant we’re familiar with from past Ukrainian records and some sort of religious chant. I think this will do well. Full disclosure: I have to interview them this week and they were lovely, so maybe i’m biased.
It looks like a strong presentation with Matrix/Kraftwerk style graphics, I’m not sure the extra dancers added much to it.
1: 🇸🇪 Sweden: Marcus & Martinus – unforgettable
Sweden couldn’t do it again, could they? It’s a gorgeous little piece of electronic pop with some delightfully hissing, analog-sounding undertones. The biggest disadvantage for them is probably being first. But with voting open from the start this year, who knows if all the usual rules and omens about running order have to be thrown out?
Here’s how the voting works Tonight.
They joked that the show was going on until eight hours, so I’ve already filed an overtime claim just in case. Now we get a recap of the joy/madness that is Eurovision after a few seconds. It doesn’t include live blogging coverage as a highlight, so I need to up my game.
If you’re wondering why you haven’t seen it Jost Klein from The Netherlands in the parade, it’s because he was disqualified “due to an incident involving a female member of the production team.”
More details here…
I’ve said before that the parade of flags is an annoying waste of time imported from the Olympics, although tonight it will be useful just to see if everyone’s shaken up…
Sweden, jointly the most successful nation in Eurovision story, opened his show with Bjorn Skiffs singing Addicted to the feeling. And now the parade of flags…
Okay, let’s get ready to go. 68th edition of Eurovision the song contest is about to start…
Last year Alexis Petridis undertook the unenviable task of ranking of every single Eurovision winner about us. I recently ranked every Doctor Who so understand exactly the kind of pressure involved in making a list like this.
He put the 1984 Swedish winner Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley from The Herrey’s at the bottom of the pile. But what did he put first? You’ll have to click to find out… but it wasn’t Bucks Fizz, so I belatedly lodged a complaint.
In preparation for tonight’s main event, Scott Bryan spoke with Eurovision hitmakers from Bucks Fizz to Käärijä to get them to reveal their tricks of the trade. Here is the piece…
My dog doesn’t seem at all impressed with her Eurovision scorecard printout, but feel free to send in pictures of your dogs enjoying Eurovision and any other comments you may have eurovision@theguardian.com.
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