Eurovision Song Contest 2024 (Mod warning, see OP updated 10/05 and post #3477 11/05)

Painful. I would say she will still be doing fluff gossip reporting and other nonsense at that stage and picking up an easy paycheque (aged 48..lol)

I have to say and it kills me to say this but bar 1997 (but in fairness that was a 5th eurovision in 10 years) RTÉ's eurovisions were the best of that era, and that 1988 show really made what EUROVISION was to become.

The venue is a big issue across the Island but could Eurovision be hosted in one of the Stadia ?

What venue in NI was suggested for the UK's hosting?

goosebumps!

that looks fcuking AMAZING!!!!!!!!

Sounds fcuking AMAZING

I said it before, I’ll say it again. We are winning the Eurovision.

That looks amazing! Roll on Tuesday! 🙂

According to Eurovisionworld.com Ireland has only a 2% chance of winning as opposed to Switzerland which has a 23% chance.
im genuinely baffled as to who people here seem to think we have the remotest chance of winning.

I guarantee you, the percentage chances on Eurovisionworld will have shot up by this time next week (Wednesday). Bambie is rapidly gaining traction and momentum.

The teaser looks great, I really hope it's enough to get Bambie into the main event and get a decent amount of points

We'll hardly hear any boos at home, back in 2015 there was 'anti booing technology' deployed (same thing as in noise cancelling headphones) for the reaction to the Russian song

I have had just a quick glace this year, am I wrong to suggest that there are a lot of similar songs/acts or at least staging? (I have only glace at the last few post here on boards and nothing else!).

I just had a look at teh recap of the 1st semi final rehearsals there, and nothing is really standing out in fairness…

Guaranteed qualifiers look like Baby Lasagna, Windows 95 man, Ukraine, and then 7 others, and at this stage I'd be really surprised if we don't qualify…

If this is the supposed 'strong' semi-final, I quite fancy our chances.

I think it's a really good song (I say song because I heard the song before I saw any video/act), it's different, but it's still very good, and will appeal to a lot of folk.

A day or 2 before Eurosong, Joe.ie posted all the songs so I gave them all a listen, and I remember saying at the time to my OH, that out of all the songs, It was the only one I liked, and I believed it would actually have a chance to win Eurovision, but we wouldn't have the balls to send it…… then a few nights later it was selected (to my shock), and I've been behind it ever since…

If anyone is wondering why the staging for Ireland song looks so far excellent versus the absolute train wrecks most other recent years. It seems it is being directed by a young Spanish fella called Sergio Jaen , i.e. it has nothing to do with RTE would be my guess (he also directed the music video).

wasn’t it mentioned up thread that Bambi’s team were looking after staging/choreography? (Which was a very welcome move)

I think (hope) that is a wise bet.

I was just going to say that taster of the staging looks impressive, the song has plenty of punch to it and holds interest, Bambie has an intriguing stage presence, BUT the whole package seems to me to be just a tiny bit too “out there” in order for some (I’d say a sizable minority) of the cohort who will be televoting to truly embrace it douze points style, so overall I think this could maybe just slide by a whisker into the top 10 or thereabouts, with some help from the juries, hopefully. Just my rough estimation.

In any case, it really, truly, easily beats pretty much everything Ireland had sent in a good long while!

ETA: Yeah, the above is obvs about the Grand final. After seeing that little clip, I have no doubt whatsoever that they will qualify through. The staging is so important in this competition. Croatia is for example a banger of a song and the favourite to win the whole thing, yet I feel its somewhat unimaginative staging could drag it down and cost it, perhaps crucial, votes in the end.

there’s quite a lot of reaction videos up on the Tube for the latest rehearsals, and a lot of the comments are very favourable towards Ireland….. very favourable…

I think we are walking into the Final. Comfortably.

Did RTE have a say in allowing the Israeli entry to compete?