{"id":1665,"date":"2009-01-02T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T11:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/02\/eurovision-in-the-uk-a-recent-potted-history\/"},"modified":"2009-01-02T11:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T11:53:00","slug":"eurovision-in-the-uk-a-recent-potted-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/01\/eurovision-in-the-uk-a-recent-potted-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurovision in the UK &ndash; A Recent Potted History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailydust.co.uk\/\">The Daily Dust<\/a> I\u2019ve put together a short (and rather subjective) history of the songs and performers that have put themselves forward to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailydust.co.uk\/2009\/01\/02\/top-recent-eurovision-classics-from-the-uk\/\">represent the United Kingdom at The Eurovision Song Contest.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is, in part, to catch the mood of the nation as we settle down for tomorrow night\u2019s first show in the BBC\u2019s hunt for a singer for 2008. \u201cYour Country Needs You\u201d has a tough challenge \u2013 not just to find a singer who can handle the stress of Eurovision, but also to find a singer that the UK can get behind and believe (in a non campy way) but also that will be able to work the PR machine in every country and get as many of them voting as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s see who\u2019s got through the audition process, and how many were from YouTube videos, how many were \u2018invited by the BBC\u2019 to audition and how many are signed to major record labels.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d love it if after five 17-20 year old singers introduce themselves with ditsy ballads that Def Leppard explode on the stage and belt out some proper rock\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Head over to The Daily Dust for my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailydust.co.uk\/2009\/01\/02\/top-recent-eurovision-classics-from-the-uk\/\">picks of the past<\/a>, all with their own video clips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over on The Daily Dust I\u2019ve put together a short (and rather subjective) history of the songs and performers that have put themselves forward to represent the United Kingdom at The Eurovision Song Contest. This is, in part, to catch the mood of the nation as we settle down for tomorrow night\u2019s first show in the BBC\u2019s hunt for a singer for 2008. \u201cYour Country Needs You\u201d has a tough challenge \u2013 not just to find a singer who can handle the stress of Eurovision, but also to find a singer that the UK can get behind and believe (in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[392],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eurovision-multimedia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-qR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}