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I'm (not) Josh Dubovie on this website too. Eurovision. Brisbane 2030 - Addicted to Speed. @MartinOsterdahl I assume you are aware? Space Ranger @ BBC

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Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I'm back what did I miss

Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Yes definitely!

Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

✈️ Melfest

Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

We're sending as many people from the UK as possible to try and push them into picking Swedish.

Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

almost looks like a UK artist announcement graphic for a weird alternative universe Eurovision 2003 where Latvia took the branding in an even stranger direction to the one they chose

Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

This NF season? Always the replacement bus service.

Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I don't always remember to crosspost everything to Bsky but a train timetable observation feels like a Bsky post, this is the right demographic

Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

kinda obsessed with the weirdly specific timings for Eurosong starting and finishing, feeling like I'm about to catch a train watching this

Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

perhaps misremembering but supposedly this entry was turned down in favour of recreating our 2009 NF format of getting a famous songwriter, TSGTM flopping and knowing what we could have had with a bigger performer in 2010 is supposedly what led to our 2011-2013 efforts too.

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Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I know why I wouldn't be here but why wouldn't you??

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Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Still not sure about that bridge 2 minutes in but apart from that, if they'd dragged the spinning piano to Oslo we'd have been looking at Top 5 for the second year in a row. Supposedly.

Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

On today of all days, I felt like revisiting what is (supposedly) the biggest missed opportunity the UK ever had at Eurovision. 2010 didn't know what would have hit it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E4-...

Katie Melua - The Flood

YouTube video by DramaticoMusic

Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I hate that guy!

Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

What I've learned is that I could have completely ignored all my television/music industry/BBC sources for the last month and just pushed the random thought I threw out there on Bluesky whilst stuck in Christmas mode, and been exactly on the money. The life of a UK Eurofan.

Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

so I was on the money, but exclusively on Bsky, and long before all of this mess? 😭

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Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

controversially I recommend the Belgian NF that starts a little earlier if you want something with a little more... quality. This is not the same BF we had from 2022-24.

Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

all very samey and it sadly means a somewhat mediocre ballad is probably going to come through when Spanish music literally has the ingredients to win every year if they wanted to.

Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

easily the weakest year since it's been called BF, they dropped the HoD from 2022-24 and there's nothing really close to the quality in those years

Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

okay sure maybe it's a trade in individuality. BUT it is absolutely a loss in that it's yet another of ESC's silly little traditions giving way to something more formal. It's that each host city had to make a *key* and put their creativity into that confined goofy tradition. That's the loss.

Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

so the thing is whilst some of the cities didn't care about the insignia (Turin) and some cared a lot (Liverpool), it's still a bit of tradition and personality that the host city can no longer inject. Eurovision going forwards is very template and style guide-y and it feels like a loss.

Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I like this Swiss host, he's kinda budget Rylan with his little facts and tenuously connecting the country drawn to Switzerland via fondue or something

Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

already preparing my "well you see it's like the fa cup draw" response

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Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

best words I got as a eurofan 10 minutes before the allocation draw was "we're cutting the meeting short"

Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

"not giving specifics"! it'll be here before you know it.

Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

And for those still asking "WHEN?", yes I know why it got delayed and for how long, no I'm not giving specifics anymore, but it will be going down very soon. We'll all find out together, the way it should be (with every UK fan panicking and losing their mind)

Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

That false alarm UK press release has reminded me to thank a LOT of you for checking in with me after that Traitors mess on Friday night. I was fine, almost everyone was chill and forgiving about it, and it's a good reminder that the BBC are both ambitious and *messy*

Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

it was a WatchMojo video of all things that taught me that Telex (Belgium 1980) appeared on Top of the Pops in the UK a few years before youtu.be/a_LPNSLjuj0?...

Top 20 WTF Top Of The Pops Performances

YouTube video by WatchMojoUK

Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

👀

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Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

the exact audience I had in mind for that post, haha.

Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

choosing to assume the Bardo who produced for July Jones at EMA are the UK 1982 act and not someone else

Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

somebody please send help

Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

someone tell the Luxembourg scriptwriters that if you do the bit where you tease a break to ramp up the noise level in the arena you're not actually meant to go to a break 😭 #lsc

Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

oh it's over Laura Thorn landslide already #LSC

Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I can see why some like Mumford & Dude(lange)s but they lean a bit too Christian music festival for me #LSC

Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

that or Mumford & Sons

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Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

if you couldn't tell by the documentary interval segment about France Gall, or the DJ and kids choir performing France Gall, Luxembourg have a song they'd like to win this NF. See if you can spot it! #LSC

Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I'm sorry what

Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

oh there's one more song??? we've had three interval acts already and one of them was a proposal #LSC

Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

if only we'd been warned about this earlier bsky.app/profile/dude...

Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

sorry but directly referencing France Gall just tips Poupee over from 'subtle callback' to an eyeroll and a 'yeah okay we get it you want this one to win' #LSC

Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

no I don't watch her either but that one video was memed to death

Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

we are forgetting the sacred texts www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB-y...

'Bridges' Alika (Estonia Eurovision 2023) - Honest Vocal Coach Sings

YouTube video by Honest Vocal Coach

Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

utterly gorgeous interval act I don't even care that it was 4 songs into a 7 song final #LSC

Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Luzac is a potential bottom 5 song of the whole NF season for me, I'm so sorry #LSC

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Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

STEVENAGE JAZZ BAND TAKE US ALL THE WAY TO BASEL

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Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

sorry to be predictable but it's Rhythmic Soulwave for me or else, not as good live as I'd hoped for and it might take a while to get somewhere but I love it so much #LSC

Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I vaguely remember the production values being high last year but this is an amazing setup for Luxembourg, wish I cared more about all but one of the songs here but good for them #LSC

Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

It wasn't much of a lynch mob in the end, lots of people reached out checking I was good, basically everybody just had a laugh about it. In the end it was only a potential artist reveal so I guess people didn't go too deep with it like if we had announced Honey G or Steps or something worse

Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I wish I could say more. Yes.

Cuz @heisthecuz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Couldn't agree more with your analysis of the front runner (even down to how most Eurofans refer to it simply as 'Poupee' it's an obvious bit of nostalgia leverage), in many ways it's the Londonbeat from the 1995 UK NF referencing Puppet on a String of this contest. Mumford or the jazz band to win.