Eurovision Rewatch: The Hague 1976 (17/10 @ 20.00 BST)

[Dark Carnival]

12 Israel
10 France
08 Norway
07 The Netherland
06 Germany
05 Greece
04 Finland
03 Yugoslavia
02 UK
01 Italy

 

[GinAg (39)]

A wind up telephone teapot combo?

 

[lolly]

What a lovely SILKY SHEEN

 

[dmlaw]

Did Sue just say, we are now back in a big hole?

 

[GinAg (39)]

Oh the ordering is all wrong.

 

[lolly]

I don't like this way of announcing the votes at all

 

[Dark Carnival]

What order are they giving out points?!

 

[lolly]

What order are they giving out points?!

The order they performed. Kills any tension.

 

[dmlaw]

Votes in performance order? Don't like that. Don't like points for Austria either.

 

[GinAg (39)]

PLEASE!

 

[ButterTart]

Where the fuck is Monarrco?

 

[Tisch]

Why is the voting so weird!?

 

[Dark Carnival]

Is Norway going to finish last?

 

[Soldi]

This is how @Dark Carnival gave out his points in Festival Di Soldi!!

 

[lolly]

SLOW DOWN

 

[dmlaw]

Mr Naef

 

[Dark Carnival]

This is how @Dark Carnival gave out his points in Festival Di Soldi!!

 

[dmlaw]

Austria in third place and nothing for Greece or Norway. Paedophilia really was a choice in the seventies.

 

[GinAg (39)]

The scoreboard in Dutch and the voting in French and English.

 

[Suomi]

12 Norway
10 Yugoslavia
08 Israel
07 France
06 Belgium
05 Netherlands
04 Italy
03 Ireland
02 Monaco
01 Finland

 

[Lucille]

I’m not really paying attention to the scoring but I find it soothing to have on in the background.

 

[Lucille]

The Greece and Norway snub though.

 

[dmlaw]

Only three points from Ireland. Had we just done something particularly horrid to them politically?

 

[GinAg (39)]

Only three points from Ireland. Had we just done something particularly horrid to them politically?

Nothing ever, that I can recollect.

 

[Dark Carnival]

FINALLY!

 

[dmlaw]

Nothing ever, that I can recollect.

I don't think that they really wanted the potatoes in the first place.

 

[Lucille]

I hope the Norwegian Queen is banging the finest powder in the green room and not giving a fuck about the scores as she’s quite clearly BETTER THAN THIS.

 

[lolly]

Only three points from Ireland. Had we just done something particularly horrid to them politically?

I think noncing was still confined to the church only there

 

[GinAg (39)]

The scoring is mildly exciting as it goes.

 

[dmlaw]

I'm quite enjoying that Greece in Dutch is Griekenland.

 

[lolly]

MORE PIPES AT EUROVISION PLEASE

 

[GinAg (39)]

PIPE SMOKING!

 

[lolly]

Pipe smoking always reminds me of Great Uncle Harry and his enormous testicles

 

[Zu]

I can report that I‘ve been drawn into the voting

OH YOU NASTY GIRLS

 

[Lucille]

REALLY?

 

[GinAg (39)]

And even a cigar. No wonder half of them died of cancer.

 

[dmlaw]

Whenever Brotherhood of Man are on screen, I get the impression that they are sorry that the thing where you make a heart shape using both hands hasn't been invented yet.

 

[lolly]

REALLY?

 

[GNL]

I hope the Norwegian Queen is banging the finest powder in the green room and not giving a fuck about the scores as she’s quite clearly BETTER THAN THIS.

The post-Eurovision section of her wiki page is do depressing.

In the late 1970s Strøm began performing in musical cabarets with Øystein Sunde and her then husband Ole Paus. She released three albums between 1978 and 1986, which reflected a move towards a more serious style of music.[5]

If she'd performed at a less HOMOPHOBIC TIME she'd at least get some Pride slots out of it

 

[GinAg (39)]

PUMP PUMP kinda flopping too.