Eurovision 2023

This is much better than usual!

it's fine, not embarrassing, that's a big win compared to most of our entries over the years.

think I'm voting for Spain

Her mic seems very low in the mix

how do I vote for Hannah Waddingham

— Hazel Southwell (@HSouthwellFE) May 13, 2023

Spain and Norway were my faves but I never pick this thing correctly

UK entry grew on me a bit this week but still too cold and calculated for my taste

Finland, Czechia and Moldova my faves I think

My faves in order: Austria, Czech, Moldovia, Serbia, Finland, Spain. If anyone of these are the winners great.

Got a bad feeling about Croatia. It's just weird and novel enough to pull something off.

Or maybe sexy Italian boring bloke.

god help me i ended up sort of liking the vocal layers in the Croatia one but they must not be indulged

that flute riff in the Moldova song is a proper hook

That one has something I haven't quite heard before. The whole package xp = yeah that's the kind of thing I always want to win

Finland > Austria > Czechia > Ukraine > Lithuania > Italy in a pinch > everything else

Albania 🇦🇱
Moldova 🇲🇩
Finland 🇫🇮

Spain 🇪🇸
Czech 🇨🇿
Serbia 🇷🇸

I think

So, I need to explain Croatia.

The band, Let 3, are a famous Croatian left-wing punk group who have mocked the country's nationalism, supported Prides, and once got arrested for performing naked even though the band protested that they weren't cos they had corks in their butts. pic.twitter.com/aNKETv9K1A

— Elaine Scattermoon (@scattermoon) May 13, 2023

That one has something I haven't quite heard before.

Unfortunately the jump cut typography they've applied to the 'UNITED BY MUSIC' idents is causing me to repeatedly see the word 'CNUT' on screen briefly.

We’re watching it in a gay bar in Manchester, from where I can report that Norway, Poland, Finland, Israel, Croatia and errr UK all smashed it. Drink may have been involved.

and Sweden didn’t? - relevant anecdotal data!

I retract my comment about the Croatians!

Netta does not move like any human I've seen before

I’m glad they got Imagine out of the way first

The mirror father mirror performance of Whole Again I didn’t know I needed

Cmon, I Turn To You is such a banger, don’t John Lewis it :(

Moldova, you mean? it’s total Ukraine/Go_A core, and that is of course great
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Saturday, 13 May 2023 bookmarkflaglink

Croatia

ah okay

The mirror father mirror performance of Whole Again I didn’t know I needed

Sonia's Better The Devil You Know, a reminder of 1993, when this fucking shit song was still one of the better ones in the competition.

No way

You'll never walk Alone getting the performance it deserves

Ruslana!

Now for the real #Eurovision2023 pic.twitter.com/uAQkIbVN0Z

— James Benge (@jamesbenge) May 13, 2023

This is the first year in living memory that I think the UK song is pretty competent. It's been in my head since I heard it (maybe alternating with the Polish one)

so loreen has won this hasn't she?

the televote moodswings can be wild, with huge margins. have a feeling Finland might do big things there

loved the Iceland linkup

Love too have solidarity for Ukraine and vote for...Israel

These jury votes are fucking shite. What the fuck is going on?

my sentiments exactly

one thing is that they’re based on friday’s dress rehearsal, not on tonight’s performance

come on voters, fuck things up

Lol @ UK getting 9 points from the public. Less than Germany.

ahaha go Norway

Spain got five points ugh

oh fuck off, haha

re Finland

At least one of the good ones got some points!

Bah, Finland wuz robbed

Fucking bullshit!@!