After a morning of sore heads and very little sleep, we whip around the online world to bring you the latest in the past 24 hours of Eurovision news.
Linda’s Battle of the Eurovision
The star, who won the competition 21 years ago, insisted Ireland and England are the only countries that ridicule the event, and called on the public to get behind our hopeful Ryan Dolan this week. Linda revealed: “In the UK and Ireland it’s trendy to slag the Eurovision and to put people down for being connected with it, and that’s mainly thanks to Terry Wogan. However, people here don’t realise the work that Eurovision gives to dancers, musicians, recording studios, all those people who are otherwise without work.
Read more at The Irish Sun.
The British complex at Eurovision
In what has become a British tradition, everyone from soccer stars to media pundits to rank-and-file viewers publicly bemoaned the politics of Eurovision after last year’s loss. Just days before this year’s show, the BBC’s Eurovision Facebook page is peppered with cynicism. “It’s all political, underhand block voting, and, everyone hates us so we will never win it!!” complained Craig Studd in one post. “They support each other” on the continent, said Brandon Ham, an 18-year-old musical theater major in Cardiff who sent out a tweet likening the Eurovision competition to a popularity contest. “I think they see us as something completely different.”
All the discussion can be found at NorthJersery.com.
Stars (minus Anouk) officially welcomed to Malmo
Whilst some people were rejected for being 2 minutes late to the party, others managed to cover the red carpet action for Malmos’ opening party from the best seat in the house. The whole shebang went out on Swedish TV and streamed directly to the cinema based in Euroclub, however if you missed all the action you can find it uploaded online.
Check out the footage on the official Eurovision.tv website.
Bonnie’s Bond Ambitions
The Welsh lass is working the press as hard as possible prior to her Saturday night appearance, and information has surfaced that she turned down the opportunity in the 70s to record a Bond theme. The only other artist to do the Bond/Eurovision double has been Lulu, and we all know how that turned out. We still live in hope that Adele may be asked one of these days. Perhaps in 20 years?
Read all about what could have been for Bonnie at the India Times.