Eurovision 2026

It finishes late. Very late for most of Europe.

Are the times for a US audience.

Australia winning would be funny.

It would be easier to enjoy if not for the whole "competition" rubbish. I know that's a contradiction in terms.

I had to go out shopping after 17:00, arrived back home shortly after 21:00, switched on tv, and after some channel-hopping, including Andy Burnham on ITV News, and Romesh Ranganathan's Parents' Evening on ITV Quiz, I turned back to Eurovision, just before the UK entry started.

It was a great performance, and whoever among the songwriters, including the guy himself, thought of a partly German chorus, wasn't being merely perverse, with it's actually being staged in a German-speaking country.
Unlike many UK entries, historically, it's a certain kind of very 'traditionally' continental Eurovision song, sound wise, which ironically, makes it rather unlike the more typical types of entry, in recent times.

I was surprised to find that 2023 was the only previous year that I've posted about Eurovision.
I wrote interlinked and adjacent posts: https://www.babeshows.co.uk/showthread.p...pid2783998 including a potted history of the music industry, via Eurovision.

Before I left the house earlier, I did switch YouView to BBC 1 HD, so I've just used live rewind to go back two hours, to just a few minutes into the show.
It seems shorter this year so far.
Maybe the semi-finals has made the final shorter, if only for the first time.

I didn't quite catch what was being said about Eurovision in Asia, Bangkok specifically, but with the established participation of Australia, following the expansion into Eastern Europe, it could be the Eurasian Pacific Contest, eventually....

I've just found out that the blonde Finland violin player in the short dress is 56 years old.

(16-05-2026 21:12 )Doddle Wrote:  Australia winning would be funny.

It would be easier to enjoy if not for the whole "competition" rubbish. I know that's a contradiction in terms.

Very surprised they are 2nd favourites as they have never done anything.

(16-05-2026 22:23 )Charlemagne Wrote:  I've just found out that the blonde Finland violin player in the short dress is 56 years old.

Get her on Babestation right now lol.

^ In her younger days she was in Playboy and on Baywatch.

So Bulgaria wins , i reckon her big tits gave her the title.

Also on another note it's nice to see someone that looks normal win i know to be on Eurovision you have to look not normal but yeah.

UK getting just 1 point and finishing last......

(17-05-2026 00:29 )Rammyrascal Wrote:  UK getting just 1 point and finishing last......

But, as was explained in the final, it does not mean that the UK did not get any public votes at all. It means that the UK could have been in 11th place across umpteen countries, but that does not earn the UK any points on the board. And as for the jury vote, getting 1 point amongst the national juries is a poor showing, given that in the past few years the UK has done reasonably well with the national juries. It strikes me that we (the UK) have not learned the right lessons from what Sam Ryder achieved 4 years ago (finishing in second place overall and winning the jury vote)?