Eurovision 2011

[parrish]

Theo,
are you back yet?
Im looking forward to your comments and the normally excellent photos of the night
Steve

[Tas131]

So who won it, I couldn't be bothered sitting through the voting count crap.

[simon131]

The winner is.......Azerbi......Azerbaij........Azerbaijan.......or something like that I didn't even think they were part of Europe . The fact that Azerbaijan has borders with various former Russian states and is an 'oil producing' country (which supplied most of the Russian military's fuel needs during WW2!) has nothing to do with the huge amount of votes it's mediocre (IMHO at least) song recieved! Who said political voting was dead?

It won't be long before China appear on Eurovision at this rate...........

Also interesting to note that some of the performers of the winning entry live in London, ENGLAND, a very long way from their home Capital of Baku.

So Theo, will you be driving to Azerbaijan next year?

[Thotos]

Yes, I'm now back from D?sseldorf after an excellent, as always of course,  Eurovision Song Contest!  

You know you shouldn't have asked but you did   so here I go  

It was another great Eurovision Song Contest although for me it was missing something which makes attending the Eurovision a special event. I don't know if it's a case of I've been to too many and the novelty is wearing off or the special buzz of these events was missing. I think it's the latter and I'll have to go to next year's  Eurosong to find out  

So Theo, will you be driving to Azerbaijan next year?

No, but I will be flying. BMI fly direct to Baku apparently but it seems the better way is to fly with Aeroflot via Moscow (I've started my research already). So I may get to see Moscow for a couple of days as well; something I've been trying to do for years but the Deep Forest concert I was to attend there was cancelled and my daughter had exams when the Eurovision Song Contest was in Moscow so we couldn't attend. Of course I could visit Moscow without a music event being involved but where's the fun it that?  

The winning song was a bit of surprise for many but I quite liked it from the first time I heard it. Then again by the time of the Eurovision I quite liked most of the songs as I had heard them all so many times   For those of you who are ashamed to admit you watched it   the final results are below. By the way, the BBC has today announced that Saturday's Eurovision Song Contest final was the most watched in the United Kingdom since 1999 with a massive 40.4% of the TV audience watching it, so a lot of you in the UK must have been watching but not admitting to it.

ESC 2011 Final Results:

 1. Azerbaijan  
 2. Italy
 3. Sweden
 4. Ukraine
 5. Denmark
 6. Bosnia & Herzegovina
 7. Greece
 8. Ireland
 9. Georgia
10. Germany
11. United Kingdom
12. Moldova
13. Slovenia
14. Serbia
15. France
16. Russia
17. Romania
18. Austria
19. Lithuania
20. Iceland
21. Finland
22. Hungary
23. Spain
24. Estonia
25. Switzerland

Strangely, during the First Semi Final in which both the winning song from Azerbaijan and the song from Greece had qualified for the final, the Greek song got the most votes with the song from Azerbaijan coming second:

ESC 2011 First Semi-Final Results:

 1. Greece
 2. Azerbaijan
 3. Finland
 4. Iceland
 5. Lithuania
 6. Georgia
 7. Hungary
 8. Serbia
 9. Russia
10. Switzerland
11. Malta
12. Armenia
13. Turkey
14. Albania
15. Croatia
16. San Marino
17. Norway
18. Portugal
19. Poland

And if you are interested:

ESC 2011 Second Semi-Final Results:

1. Sweden
2. Denmark
3. Slovenia
4. Romania
5. Bosnia & Herzegovina
6. Ukraine
7. Austria
8. Ireland
9. Estonia
10. Moldova
11. Belgium
12. Bulgaria
13. Slovakia
14. Belarus
15. Israel
16. F.Y.R. Macedonia
17. Latvia
18. Cyprus
19. The Netherlands

Also of interest are the Australian results. The Australians are very much into the Eurovision Song Contest, in fact they very much want to take part but are not allowed as they are not full members of the EBU (and they can only be associate members due to their location). Australia holds a Eurovision weekend from Friday to Sunday where the First and Second Semi Finals are shown culminating in the Final show on Sunday evening. During the Final the Australian public get their chance to televote for their winner. Here's their televote results:

ESC 2011 Australian Televoting Final Results:

1. Ireland
2. Greece
3. Serbia
4. Bosnia & Herzegovina
5. Moldova
6. Hungary
7. Sweden
8. Denmark
9. United Kingdom
10. Ukraine
11. Finland
12. Romania
13. Iceland
14. Russia
15. Italy
16. Germany
17. Estonia
18. Slovenia
19. France
20. Austria
21. Georgia
22. Spain
23. Switzerland
24. Lithuania
25. Azerbaijan

It will be interesting to see the difference between the European televoting and Jury vote but those results haven't been released yet; I shall bore you with them when they are.

Highlight of the Eurovision week in Dusseldorf for my daughter was meeting Blue and having her photo taken with them   We chatted with them for a while and they are a very nice bunch of guys, shame they didn't do better as they and their song deserved to do much better than 11th place.

[mirafioriman]

I think that everyone was just watching it waiting for Match of the Day to see Man Utd win the premier league

[Rob 131]

I for one have managed to bury his head in the sand (no shortage of it here) as regards the football, not wishing to see Man U with more Trophies then Liverpool , and then losing to Spurs for the probable 5th place .  The local Abu Dhabi Team of Man City won the FA Cup, although perhaps not what they wanted considering the investment. Fortunatly I'll be in the USA when the Champions League Final is on  Not a footballing country so I won't get to see Fergie and his team 

Sorry to change the theme, I just saw Mirafiori Man's ref to MU.

I for one love the Eurovision, except in recent years the voting