What are your Eurovision memories?

my memories are mostly 70s and early 80’s - Johnny Logan, Red Hurley, CT Wilkinson, Linda Martin, Sheba,, The Swarbrigs, Tina.

Clodagh Rodgers, Jack in the Box, 1971 - I recall the the death threats she received from Sinn Fein-IRA, but mainly her gorgeous legs.

All Kinds of Everything

remind me of Eurovision.

The pride that night, first time I felt national pride 😃

I'm an old fart. My memories of it mostly involve almost every song being staggeringly sh*t Apart from Abba, of course.

Probably my most abiding memory is one of being at a Eurovision party in the house of two gay friends (the LGBT community think the Eurovision is the greatest thing ever). A lot of drink was taken and I bashed my ankle off the corner of a wooden table dancing. I was crippled for the rest of the **** week.

probably this pop earworm, how everyone joined in energetically, and she does the last chorus in svenska

If anyone remembers the Wombles as the 1974 Eurovision interval act … it wasn't a hallucination (induced by sugar, booze or something stronger!)… on BBC4 now in the replay of the entire contest.

Riverdance Johnny Logan singing pat Kenny was a young presenter when it was held in Ireland Eurovision was a big deal in the 80s before mtv existed and we only.had rte bbc itv if you had cable tv

Or put a big aerial on the roof to get uk tv

I only watched bits of the Eurovision for Terry Wogan's quips and haven't watched it since he died. It must be about sixty years since I first walked past a TV when the Eurovision was on. 😛

There's a Mill Street in our hometown, and we had sheds/lock ups on it. The auld fella had me convinced that's where the eurovision was coming from in 93!

I think he has toned it down since then, but still witty… maybe it helps I am usually watching the show accompanied by a glass of something. One year it was even a bottle of Graham Norton's wine :)

I remember the stage in 1988 with its criss cross lines, thinking it was the best stage ever.

I got to go to the pre recorded show in 1995 (in case anything went wrong with the live version) and we were to told to arrive in shirt and tie or we might not get in! When my daughter who loves it is older i hope to go to the real one.

For about 10 years we used to host a party where we would cook the food from the host nation, i'd do about 7 dishes, start shopping/preparing on Friday go to bed about 2am and be up about 7 to start cooking, discovered some great meals and still cook some today. We had people from Germany, Italy, Ireland and Japan over and it was a great reason for a get together with friends but everyone started having kids and numbers got to big to host but hopefully it can start up again.

Random eurovision songs have stuck in my mind, 2005 song Walters and Kazha - The War is Not Over is one that always gets an airing at eurovision. The "gimmick" back then was they did some sign language

Suppose winning the contest 3 years in a row and Riverdance. And the level of production that RTÉ put into each of the productions that they did, I vaguly remember 1988s show. And after that its deterioration into what it has become. (Prob shouldn't say this but from watching the voting last night I found show to exemplify what it has become since the 1990s, though that is not to say that prior to 2000s there weren't strange and bizarre Eurovisions, on top of the numerous recaps and the hellos from the voting juries, I wish they'd go back to the old format, say hello and give us the results without a fuss), I honestly thought Eurovision had turned a corner in 2021.

Anyway I am Eurovision'd out can't see myself returning to the competition ever again.