Think About Eurovision – Details, episodes & analysis

In this episode, Matti and Chrissy discuss the values of Jedward, the reign of Queen Loreen, and the questionable choice of Russia to send a cohort of grandmothers to the contest.

In This Episode:

Matti and Chrissy realize that the reason this episode took so long to come out was because life is chaos.

But once realized, they got together to discuss 2 Canadian national treasures who competed, beautiful Spanish people and a whole host of rambling foolishness.

Firstly, I’d like to apologise for the shocking audio quality from my end - for some reason our online recording software decided to switch my default microphone to the inline one on my headphones. 

Now that’s out of the way, in this week’s DNQ files, we take a look at two songs that could have replaced Coco with Bad Old Days in Eurovision 1978, starting with a band formerly known as The Bicycle Turds, and Britain’s answer to The Three Degrees. 

• Coco - Bad Old Days
• The Fruit Eating Bears - Door In My Face
• John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett - Old Grey Whistle Test performance
• John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett - Body Talk
• Eddie & The hot Rods = Do Anything You Wanna Do
• The Undertones - Teenage Kicks
• Brown Sugar - Oh No, Look What You’ve Done
• The Three Degrees - When Will I See You Again?

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In this episode we will be discussing The 2012 Contest, where Kim finds new ways to disappoint Kris, Kris defends Englebert Humperdinck and your hosts agree on pretty much nothing!!

• The Common Linnets - The Calm After The Storm, Netherlands 2014 - Kim's favourite song from that year
• Conchita Wurst  - Rise Like A Phoenix, Austria 2014
• The UK's "staging" for the last three years
• Alien Opera singer in The Fifth Element
• FUEGO!!!
• Nightwish's cover of The Phantom of the Opera
• Pollaponk - No Prejudice, Iceland 2014
• Peter Andre - Mysterious Girl
• John & Edward's first X Factor Audition proving they are not the best singers in the world
• Edward carrying on after breaking his leg on stage
• Jedward V Jim Corr: FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!
• All the excitement of building a fairly uninteresting building over the course of 9 months, condensed into 60 very long seconds
• The Salisbury Novichock Poisoning
• The Best of Lynda Woodruff
• Next time, we'll be discussing the 2017 contest!
• If you enjoy the podcast, please make a donation to the Rainbow Railroad Project
• UK Government's Migrant Boats smokescreen

In this week's episode of the DNQ Files Kris and Kim do some headbanging to Don't Close Your Eyes by Max Jason Mai, Slovakia's 2012 non-qualifier and an absolute hair metal throwback with a touch of nu-metal thrown in for good measure. We also chat about the Masked Singer because our conversations are what? NON-SEQUITURIAL (Yes, I made that up) 

This is another episode where Anchor decided to throw a hissy fit and lose the show note links, once again, if you *really* need them that badly, contact Kris at @KrisWhoTweets

• Don't Close Your Eyes at the Second Semi Final 
• The band in School of Rock - No Vacancy - Heal Me I'm Heart Sick 
• Paula Seling & OVI - Miracle at Eurovision 2014 and their circular keyboard 
• The Darkness - Get Your Hands Off My Woman (ABSOLUTELY NSFW BECAUSE OF NAUGHTY WORDS) 
• Masked Singer chat: AVAST!! THERE BE SPOILERS IN THESE LINKS, PROCEED AT YE' OWN CAUTION!! Y'ARRR 
• The Chameleon singing Creep on The Masked Singer UK 
• Ladybug - All performances and unmasking 
• Leopard - All performances and unmasking

Kris and Kim discuss the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin Ireland where you couldn't throw a rock without hitting either a balladeer or an owner/operator of a mullet. They contradict their opinion on psychics and fortune tellers whilst they try and find something interesting to talk about in the 1988 competition

• Eurovision 1988
• Gordon Ramsay flavour tripping on the Graham Norton Show
• Jamaican Guinness Punch
• Johnny Logan - Hold Me Now
• Joe Cocker - With A Little Help From My Friends
• Forever Autumn from Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds, which the UK entry reminded Kris of
• Former World's Strongest Man, Jon Pall Sigmarsson
• Oreo Cheesecake Cupcakes
• PLAY JAJA DING DONG!! 
• The Eurovision glass microphone trophy
• Eurovision 2012
• The American Song Contest

Today Kris and Kim discuss Daz Sampson & Nona's attempt to represent Belarus in the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest, Kinky Boots. This song is a car crash you can't help but take your eyes off.

• Daz Sampson & Nona - Kinky Boots at the Belarusian Auditions
• Kinky Boots Movie Trailer
• A clip from the Kinky Boots Musical on Broadway
• I couldn't find the original Trouble at the Top show about the factory, but I found this short news clip
• The Belarusian open audition process had 113 songs submitted, 73 of those songs were performed during the audition process!! (click on "[Show]" to drop down the extensive list of auditionees)

The 1957 Eurovision Song Contest

A major source of explanations to what the hell is going on

Schoepen was apparently a last minute stand in and only rehearsed it once

Warbling water whistle

It's A Small World ride

Recency Bias

Snow White getting forest animals to do her chores for her

Malta - Eurovision 2014

The top 100 songs of 1957

Fernsprecher is the German for telephone, although they do use "telefon" and a mobile phone is called a "handy"

From Bakelite telephones to this. Props can make a song memorable

Lys Assia's 1956 winning entry

Email from Eurovision

Celine Dion - Ashes music video for Deadpool 2

1998 Contest

Psychics are lying to you, here's conjuring legend, James Randi, talking about homeopathy, quackery and fraud

Shirley Ghostman showing you how to perfect comedy psychics

Lemon nailed Jojo Siwa

Jim "The Hammer" Shapiro's slightly aggressive adverts

The Apology Act (which sounds like a Hallmark Movies title)

The average Brit says ‘sorry’ around eight times per day

BOA on why her lip sync was low energy

Come From Away at the Royal Variety Show

A great example of a Newfoundland accent (his accent is very Irish influenced rather than West Country UK)

Brighton during the heatwave

In this episode Kris and Kim discuss Ida Maria's entry for the 2018 Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix, Scandilove. Unfortunately the links in this have been lost to the winds of time (well, actually our podcast host, Anchor, liked screwing up the shownotes when you so much as looked at them in mobile... if you really need the information, reach out to Kris on Twitter at @KrisWhoTweets 

• Norway's record in Eurovision isn't.... the best. 
• Scandilove - Live Version Ida Maria - I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked was used in the film, Lesbian Vampire Killers & used as the inspiration for a title of an episode of Grey's Anatomy  
• Scandilove - Studio Version GIF is pronounced "giff" not "jiff" and this is the hill we will both die on  
• Daði Freyr (Daði & Gagnamagnið) – Think About Things (Official Video)  
• People bopping to Think About Things More people bopping to Think About Things 
• Donald Trump is planning on banning Tik Tok in the US due to "data concerns" and definitely nothing to do with TikTok'ers claiming responsibility for blocking people buying Trump merch or booking tickets for Donald Trump rallies so numbers were low. 
• Punk Rock Factory's brilliant cover of Think About Things and their album of covers, The Wurst Is Yet To Come 
• Next time we will be covering the Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson Européen 1957

Kris and Kim discuss the 2014 contest held in Copenhagen, Denmark.  Hamster wheels, twins, mustaches and beards. IT's all here

Eurovision 2014

Next Time: Eurovision 1957

Kris' top 3 Eurovision Song Contests:

• Denmark 2014
• Sweden 2016
• Israel 2019

Kim's scores

Kris' foray into quick drag

Óttarr Proppé - Former Icelandic Health Minister and Rock Star

Population of Iceland: 364,134

Population of London: 8.982 million

The Tomachevy Twins - Vesenniy Jazz at Junior Eurovision 2006 

Anti Booing Technology

A brief history of postcards

Creating SNL

Senhit - San Marino 2011, 2020 & 2021 - covering Cheesecake

More SEO for Momoland, the K-Pop Group

Many knights of the round table

Aram Mp3 on Conchita

Apparently Molly's favourite cake and how to make it yourself

Classic Eurovision drinking game

Post Chat:

Drag Race Chat:

• Netflix spoiled the All Stars 5 Result
• Break Up - Bye Bye (Frock Destroyers Version)
• Checkov's Gun

SNL Chat: 

• Stefon
• Target Lady
• ...and I'm Dooneese
• "Oh, don't make me sing"  
• World's Most Evil Invention
• Cecilia Gimenez on Weekend Update (and yet another botched restoration by an amateur)

Henry Cavill building a gaming PC (NSFW... but you're probably working from home anyway)