Who should Ireland send to Eurovision 2009?

mollydolly271

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Ah dammit. I cant be angry now.
You have melted my icy heart with a hot island song.

ahhh thats a sweet image?? this is u on that hot island-:cool:

Hyzepher

Surely the Hoff could win it for us?

RobertFoster

Hyzepher wrote: »

Surely the Hoff could win it for us?

We'd have 12 points from Germany at least!

JP Liz

Brian Cowen

rednik

Where Dustin failed give Bosco a try.:D:D:D

loloc3

CHECK THIS CHICK OUT WITH HER LOVELY IRISH VOICE CATCHY SONG AND THERES A BIG PERFORMANCE TO GO WITH IT



http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=LAUREN+WHITE+a+new&aq=f

its called a new way to fly...

i think its brilliant and they would be crazy not to pick it!!

let me know xx

Pigman II

worth a shot.

loloc3

CHECK THIS CHICK OUT WITH HER LOVELY IRISH VOICE CATCHY SONG AND THERES A BIG PERFORMANCE TO GO WITH IT



http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=LAUREN+WHITE+a+new&aq=f

its called a new way to fly... her name is LAUREN WHITE

i think its brilliant and they would be crazy not to pick it!!

let me know xx

LordSutch

Westlife doing a Rap version of 'All kinds of everything'

Yo, my man Louis ...............

Baby4

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anladmór

loloc3 wrote: »

CHECK THIS CHICK OUT WITH HER LOVELY IRISH VOICE CATCHY SONG AND THERES A BIG PERFORMANCE TO GO WITH IT



http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=LAUREN+WHITE+a+new&aq=f

its called a new way to fly... her name is LAUREN WHITE

i think its brilliant and they would be crazy not to pick it!!

let me know xx

nice song, in fact real good but id be up for the entry of marketa irglova and glenn hansard

Nightwish

grenache wrote: »

get rid of the stupid acts and razzamatazz - the likes of Lordi should not be anywhere near the Eurovision, bands like these have turned it into some sort of freakshow. Bring back the real musicians.

Hey leave Lordi alone! I've loved that band for years and when they made it into the Eurovision I voted for them, because I genuinely liked the song. They are real musicians. They play all of their own instruments, write their own songs and just happen to like theatrics and therefore wear costumes.

On the topic of the Irish entry, I think something decent a la the Voice song by Eimear Quinn could get us through to the finals.

1966

tenandtracer wrote: »

It has gotta be Johnny Logan - he is the only person in the universe who can return us to Eurovision supremacy, not that I give a sh*te TBH:D

couldn't agree more............think he mentioned in Tubridy interview last year that he'd do it again too.....

anladmór

grenache wrote: »

I honestly think this represents the best course of action to take. We could send Elvis with Hendrix on guitar and we'd still not even make it past the semi's. There are several things wrong with the current Eurovision format -
1. the televote - get rid of it, and bring back the jury system, which actually tries to choose the best song. The farce of neighbours voting for each other is gone beyond a joke, and i'm surprised that the ESC has not seen fit to change it.
2. get rid of the stupid acts and razzamatazz - the likes of Lordi should not be anywhere near the Eurovision, bands like these have turned it into some sort of freakshow. Bring back the real musicians.

Until these changes are made, we should follow the Italians and opt out of this farce. The Eurovision i knew and loved has been well and truly killed by the Eastern and Cetral European countries.

they tuk ar votes?

994

grenache wrote: »

I honestly think this represents the best course of action to take. We could send Elvis with Hendrix on guitar and we'd still not even make it past the semi's. There are several things wrong with the current Eurovision format -
1. the televote - get rid of it, and bring back the jury system, which actually tries to choose the best song. The farce of neighbours voting for each other is gone beyond a joke, and i'm surprised that the ESC has not seen fit to change it.
2. get rid of the stupid acts and razzamatazz - the likes of Lordi should not be anywhere near the Eurovision, bands like these have turned it into some sort of freakshow. Bring back the real musicians.

Until these changes are made, we should follow the Italians and opt out of this farce. The Eurovision i knew and loved has been well and truly killed by the Eastern and Cetral European countries.

It's already been changed to 50% vote, 50% jury. And "razzamatazz" is hardly the word to describe Lordi.

Leaderbored

grenache wrote: »

2. get rid of the stupid acts and razzamatazz - the likes of Lordi should not be anywhere near the Eurovision, bands like these have turned it into some sort of freakshow. Bring back the real musicians.

Yeah! A group of musicians who write their own material, play their own instruments and have had chart success?

How dare they enter this Sacred & serious competition, which , in it's heyday, gave us the Beethovenesque Diggy-Loo Diggy-ley, J'aime J'aime la Vie and boom bang a bang. Real music. With meaning.

(Agree about the text voting though. Get rid. Having it there doesn't mean the best song wins, it just means that the winning song is the one most popular with gullible gobshítes with mobile credit to waste.)

meatusmusique

Gareth Nugent, The Days of our Lives

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7aEbwe5RAo

I must now dash your hopes and say that it didn't get through though there is hope of a turn around. See what you think and let me know if you think I've judged well. If you have a youtube account then go rate it and leave a comment before we end up with Daisy the Dancing Donkey for 2009.

peejay1986

meatusmusique wrote: »

Gareth Nugent, The Days of our Lives

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7aEbwe5RAo

I must now dash your hopes and say that it didn't get through though there is hope of a turn around. See what you think and let me know if you think I've judged well. If you have a youtube account then go rate it and leave a comment before we end up with Daisy the Dancing Donkey for 2009.

That is a brilliant song, I love it! Did it really not get through?

meatusmusique

peejay1986 wrote: »

That is a brilliant song, I love it! Did it really not get through?

I know the guy now and he's getting quite a fan base going, there are a bunch of people in an uproar because they felt it is just what they need, something Irish , written by and sung by the artist and it is uplifting. It's also an allrounder for other celebrations as well!

Wheels

When you say 'bunch' of people I assume you mean his family and maybe local shop keeper?? It sounds like every failed rubbish song we sent in the 90s mixed with the Glenroe theme.

meatusmusique

Thank you for your comment,

The usual bunch yes but also a quickly growing network who would just like to have more of a say than Dustin the Turkey's manager did. I don't think there's any real danger of anything like that being successful anyway, many people seem to love it whether or not it's a Eurosong. I only posted it for interest, no offence to auditory senses intended.

I'll leave it there now but perhaps you can tell me about your entry of earlier days. Can I hear it somewhere?

jill_valentine

Neil Hannon, bitches.

You know it makes sense.

Nolanger

Dave McSavage

Kat Slater

Gareth Nugent should have got a look in at least. The song isn't fantastic but it's a hell of a lot better than last year's Eurosong entries. He's also a good vocalist, I recognize him after he came second on Nollaig No 1. Will be interesting to see what they end up with for entries - can't be long now till they're revealed???

robo

jill_valentine wrote: »

Neil Hannon, b*tches.

You know it makes sense.

My lovely horse!!! It would be great!

tintin67

Fresh from RTE. This year's Eurovision entry will again be Dustin the Turkey. But as a change from last year's entry "let's all take the piss out of you very poor East Europeans who really take this thing seriously cos we are the rich Irish, the new cocks of Europe" it will have Dustin down on his knees in front of the Community Welfare Officer praying for the few euro to pay the ESB bill. Set to music obviously.

meatusmusique

tintin67 wrote: »

Fresh from RTE. This year's Eurovision entry will again be Dustin the Turkey. But as a change from last year's entry "let's all take the piss out of you very poor East Europeans who really take this thing seriously cos we are the rich Irish, the new cocks of Europe" it will have Dustin down on his knees in front of the Community Welfare Officer praying for the few euro to pay the ESB bill. Set to music obviously.

Hopefully Dustin ended up on the Christmas Menu in RTE canteen. Bet he sang all the way to the oven!

meatusmusique

So is everyone happy with the Irish finalists then?

anladmór

i only see a few of the songs, one contestant is latvian, does that not defeat the purpose of the competition? her song is decent, but like compete for latvia.

EnigmasWhisper

ddddd wrote: »

After extremely disappointing recent results I am trying to find who would be Irelands best representative with the biggest chance of winning !!!

Could it be Samantha Mumba?? Laura Izibor?? Leona Daly?? Brian McFadden?? Or should we just withdraw from the competition altogether?

Open to any suggestion!!!

Typical Ireland. The panal to pick Irelands entry consists of Linda Martin, a washed up 'star' and Louis Walsh. Not to mention that their dear friends Ronan Keating (whom Louis managed in westlife), Shay Healy (who wrote songs for Linda) and Phil Coulter (who is great friends of both judges) have all submitted songs to the competition this year! Its pathetic, and a disgrace that we must yet again accept such blatant cronyism. What a sham of a contest and so unfair to the hundreds of talented songwriters who enetered their songs into this years competition. Why do tax payers accept this crap ?