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Wogan to Step Down From Eurovision

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The hints have been there for a while, but with William Hill stopping taking bets on “Terry Wogan to not host Eurovision 2009,” I think it’s fair to say that it is time for Wogan to step down from Eurovision commentating duties. He once gave a piece of advice to someone starting to commentate for the first time (I think it was one of the Scandanavian countries)… Paraphrasing the exact quote, but “If it looks like a duck, the audience can see it’s a duck. If you don’t say it’s a duck, the audience won’t be with you.” The problem

Legal Music Online? What If I Can’t Find It?

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Dear BPI, I’ve not recieved one of your lovely letters, but I would like to hear an answer to a point I have regarding music online. What if I can’t find a music track or album online? I’m sure you’re familiar with artists who don’t appear electroncially, such as The Beatles, or do not wish to appear in certain stores (Kid Rock and Garth Brookes to name two). What happens when there is music that I would like to buy, but it’s not available legally? This happened recently; after Eurovision 2008 I decided to grab some of the albums of

The Myth of ‘Political’ Voting at Eurovision

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Pretty much ever European blog commenting on the Eurovision Song Contest this morning is bringing up the political voting (you know, where Greece and Cyprus exchange 12 points if they can, the Scandinavian countries vote for each other, and so on). Lets get this right. The voting in each country is now a 15 minute window for phone voting – normal people picking up their phone and dialing (or SMS’ing) and these are collated to share out the 12, 10, 8, etc points. If the voting was a single man, or even a small ten person jury in a TV

Eurovision Pick 3 2008: The Results of the Twitterverse Competition

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Not only is the result of Eurovision 2008 in (1st, Russia; 2nd, Ukraine; 3rd Greece), but the results of the Twitter ‘Pick Three’ Eurovision is in as well. The twitterverse each chose three songs, and their scores are added up to give your score. Just for fun you understand… the results (of those I saw in my stream) are below. If you joined in and I missed you, reply in the comments. Twittername One Two Three Score OwenBlacker Greece Azerbaijan Russia 622 EwanSpence Russia Ukraine Sweden 549 Neonbubble Ukraine Rusia Finland 537 Djwaters1 Greece Ukraine France 495 RachelClarke Finland Russia

Grab Your Eurovision Score Sheets Here!

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Only an hour to go – part of me so wishes I was in Belgrade in the stadium ight now… maybe next year, eh. Anyway, till then, if you haven;t got one sorted out yet, the Eurovision Official Site has a single page PDF score sheet for you to print out and use throughout the night so you can join in. And if you’re partaking in the totally unofficial “Pick Three Euro Songs” competition on Twitter (tag #eurovision) then this should be a must. The Eurovision Song Contest 2008 Score Sheet (PDF) Update for 2009: The BBC’s Eurovision site is