Post by Neko Bazu on May 21, 2008 13:59:52 GMT -1
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7411958.stm
At least you guys are spared the humiliation our song's gonna get at the main event
I did say in a previous thread that the rest of Europe probably wouldn't 'get it' though.
Ireland will not appear in this year's Eurovision Song Contest final after its entrant, Dustin the Turkey, failed to qualify from the first semi-final.
The glove puppet was not among the 10 successful countries, which included Greece, Romania, Armenia, Finland, Israel, Poland, Russia and Bosnia.
Norway also succeeded, along with Azerbaijan in its Eurovision debut.
A second semi-final on Thursday will determine another 10 countries to proceed to Saturday's final in Serbia.
The line-up will include Sweden's former winner Charlotte Perrelli, who emerged as the favourite in a Europe-wide vote of fans carried out by the BBC News website.
Dustin the Turkey, who sang Irelande Douze Pointe, has previously recorded six albums and performed with artists including Bob Geldof and Chris De Burgh.
Keith Mills, editor of Irish Eurovision website All Kinds of Everything, said: "It was a three-minute joke that wasn't especially funny, didn't work for an international audience and looked very messy on screen."
The number of points Dustin picked up in the semi-final will not be made public until the overall winner has been chosen on Saturday night.
In both semi-finals, the qualifiers are announced in random order and the number of votes for each is not revealed until the contest is over.
The glove puppet was not among the 10 successful countries, which included Greece, Romania, Armenia, Finland, Israel, Poland, Russia and Bosnia.
Norway also succeeded, along with Azerbaijan in its Eurovision debut.
A second semi-final on Thursday will determine another 10 countries to proceed to Saturday's final in Serbia.
The line-up will include Sweden's former winner Charlotte Perrelli, who emerged as the favourite in a Europe-wide vote of fans carried out by the BBC News website.
Dustin the Turkey, who sang Irelande Douze Pointe, has previously recorded six albums and performed with artists including Bob Geldof and Chris De Burgh.
Keith Mills, editor of Irish Eurovision website All Kinds of Everything, said: "It was a three-minute joke that wasn't especially funny, didn't work for an international audience and looked very messy on screen."
The number of points Dustin picked up in the semi-final will not be made public until the overall winner has been chosen on Saturday night.
In both semi-finals, the qualifiers are announced in random order and the number of votes for each is not revealed until the contest is over.
At least you guys are spared the humiliation our song's gonna get at the main event
I did say in a previous thread that the rest of Europe probably wouldn't 'get it' though.
Forever without exception. x
(I personally thought Scooch deserved to be somewhere near the lower middle last year, but I think 'out of the bottom five' is the best we can hope for nowadays :
(Something by Katrina and the Waves)