Eurovision Rewatch: The Great British Song Contest 1997 AND 1998 (11:00 BST, 22/04)

[ButterTart]

"It definitely launched my career"
And she actually spoke of herself in the same breath as ABBA and Celine Dion!

 

[win_the_game]

Katrina went onto sing backing vocals on Natalie Imbruglia's 'Torn' and Hepburn's 'I Quit'. Good to see her career took off after this.

 

[Lucille]

Oh god BEANZS.

 

[ButterTart]

Oh FUCK OFF Beanz, nobody cares about your wecord Love City Gwoove.

 

[Madíson]

Love City Groove big in Japan.

 

[win_the_game]

He is so STREET it hurts.

 

[lolly]

Love City Groove

Chart (1995) Peak
position
Europe (Eurochart Hot 100)[2] 28
Iceland (Íslenski Listinn Topp 40)[3] 15
Ireland (IRMA) 28
Scotland (Official Charts Company)[4] 20
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[5] 7
UK Dance (Official Charts Company)[6] 35
UK R&B (Official Charts Company)[7] 3

 

[dmlaw]

It depends, are we talking singles or big issues?

I'm fairly sure Beanz is a stockbroker now.

 

[ButterTart]

Where did the shades go by the time of the grand final?

 

[dmlaw]

Love City Groove

Chart (1995) Peak
position
UK R&B (Official Charts Company)[7] 3

So, achingly ground breaking that it couldn't even top the R&B charts.

 

[win_the_game]

Love City Groove

Chart (1995) Peak
position
Scotland (Official Charts Company)[4] 20
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[5] 7

I take from this that Love City Groove was inflicted on us Scots against our will. Yet another grievance we can hold against England.

 

[lolly]

To be honest, I hold a grievance that the Scottish charts are allowed in wikipedia entries.

 

[dmlaw]

I take from this, Love City Groove was inflicted on us Scots against our will. Yet another grievance we can hold against England.

The top four places in that week's Scottish charts were all Runrig.

 

[Mugatu]

Is the background of the phone numbers piss?

 

[ButterTart]

5 this afternoon? What time was this on?

 

[Madíson]

I see Gina G dethroned the X Files from the top of the Scottish regional chart.

 

[ButterTart]

Did they interrupt the final of the Margaret Thatcher lookalike contest to bring us these results?

 

[Madíson]

5 this afternoon? What time was this on?

On a Sunday.

 

[win_the_game]

The top four places in that week's Scottish charts were all Runrig.

Even worse L*lu finished off the rest of the top ten.

 

[Suomi]

Can anyone remind me of how and why Jonathan king posted on moopy

 

[Raining on Me]

To be fair to Gina, "Fresh" must have been around this point after a fucking MONSTER hit.

Celine, Abba, Gina. QUITE RIGHT TOO love

 

[ButterTart]

When you look at him, it's astonishing Jonathan King turned out to be a giant paedophile.

 

[ButterTart]

Can anyone remind me of how and why Jonathan king posted on moopy

I've been wondering what this was all about.

 

[dmlaw]

Imagine if Sam Blue wins this time.

 

[win_the_game]

Can anyone remind me of how and why Jonathan king posted on moopy

Something to do with NONCE: THE ONE MAN MUSICAL or whatever it was?

 

[Suomi]

Only a thousand votes in it

 

[Madíson]

Yay! Well done Kimberley Rew!

 

[ButterTart]

Look at the Yodel in the Canyon of Love writers. Faces like boiled piss when they found out they'd not won.

 

[Suomi]

Doesn’t even get to perform again it’s hardly MELODIFESTIVALEN is it?

 

[win_the_game]

Something to do with NONCE: THE ONE MAN MUSICAL or whatever it was?

YES! Oscar: Wilde About Boys

 

[Lucille]

Agog it wasn’t a walkover.

 

[dmlaw]

Doesn’t even get to perform again it’s hardly MELODIFESTIVALEN is it?

I think everyone was pretty keen to find out what the lottery numbers were.

 

[lolly]

Back in your seat for the National Lottery result, love!

 

[ButterTart]

Kimberley Rew may be a worse human being than Jonathan King hypnotised into believing he's Hitler, but by God he can write a fine song.

 

[lolly]

Kimberley Rew may be a worse human being than Jonathan King hypnotised into believing he's Hitler, but by God he can write a fine song.

But not more than the one

 

[lolly]

I've run straight into Great British Song Contest 1998

 

[Mugatu]

That was an education. I'll probably need to end my quarantine sobriety to make it through a full Eurovision, then maybe take up smoking meth on top.

 

[ButterTart]

ASFE 1998 just came on. Ulrika Jonsson was a bit of a fox before her fanny saw so much traffic she had to introduce a congestion charge.

 

[Raining on Me]

I've run straight into Great British Song Contest 1998

Me too. It's dreadful and we haven't even kicked off

 

[win_the_game]

That was an education. I'll probably need to end my quarantine sobriety to make it through a full Eurovision, then maybe take up smoking meth on top.

Eurovision 1999 is the ONLY drug you'll ever need.