Alcoholics? Us? Never

The institution that is known as the ESC Nation Message Board meet-up arrived in the Fair City of the Emerald Isle...........Yes Dublin we are here, we're queer and we're not going shopping.

We arrived late afternoon and even though we texted everybody, nobody replied. So of round the town to get barrings and find out where we were meeting later. We discovered later on that the boys from Scandi land got of the airport bus and the FIRST building they saw happened to be a pub..........a gold star goes to the person who can guess what happened next......

Back to the hotel and finally someone got in touch, Sir Roger of Norwayia with Lady Carly of Americania were at the Hotel........a swift Vodka later and of we all went to the Korean dog slaughter house........I mean restaurant for dinner.........

There was sat waiting patiently young MerseyMike, swiftly followed by the ever glamorous Egle. Drinks were taken and we awaited the rest of the alcoholics..........the following is a selection of what happened next...........


This was the face Sild pulled when informed by the bar staff that "no there is no more Vodka, you'll have to have a soft drink, we do a selection, would you like to see a menu?"

Nuff said really, there wasn't blood but it was a close call......



A most welcome addition to the maniacs was Fatima from Iran. She was quite shy at first but soon got into the swing of things when Sild tried to tell her that facial hair is not really acceptable in Ireland. An appointment was made for the clinic for today and we expect to see her later at the Guinness Tour resplendent in less restrictive attire:)))))))))))))




"Why didn't anybody tell me that it wasn't as big as my left arm and really it was only a diddy one.......about the size of the shape I'm making with my other hand. I am of course referring to the size of the glass that my drink came in........tsk tsk tsk......you naughty thinking people you"


Look into my eyes, not around the eyes, into the eyes.........now you're under.....**Steals drink from under you're nose**

We were of course very sensible, well someone had to be, and left early to go to bed. Still feel like shit today but that could be more to do with the **coughs** nightcap in the room.

We know you love a bit of group action so here are some teasers before the main event tonight....



Hands above the table please boys.......




AND finally......a big fat gold star to the first person who can name the MBer underneath Jonas hair.........

Sad news day

We know we haven't posted for such a long time but not much is going on with us 2 until we go away to Turkey at the end of August.

We have, however, had some real bad news today. As most of you know we hang out at the Message Board at ESCNation.com and sadly we found out today that one of the regular members has passed away.

Tore, how can we forget the endless iTunes chart updates, your radiant positivity on the board and the joy which you had at Norway winning this year. You will be missed.

and in the end it's all about just one guy

The hearts of Europe melted and they voted/swooned/cried out for/screamed their undying devotion at young Mr Ryback from Norwayia (it needs and -ia on the end of it 'cos we got so used to Eastern wins that old habits die hard)

It was truly one of the best final nights we have had at Eurovision....from the very first opening strains of Believe, right through that first glorious 10 points from Spain to the UK, and on with the landslide victory......the Fishy Norwegean next to me had no bladder control at all during the voting and we LOVED THAT!!!!

Congratulations to Norwayia and we will see you all in Oslo (or wherever they decide to host it) next year....thanks for reading and check back occasionally 'cos we do other stuff apart from Eurovision....not too sure what but Daniel insists that we do so just go with it....

M+D

And so final night is here

So with our trusted bat at the ready we arrive at final night.....let's hope we don't have to use it on those pesky juries.....

Final thought's before entering the arena for the last time......could Jade actually do it for the UK. We have serious doubts but you just never know

And just for all those of you who don't believe that we actually exist and that we are the figment of some imaginary troll from the ESCNATION.COM message board here's us in all our finery just before it all kicks of.....and know we are not Spasiba and Spellina in disguise!!!!

Miss Kiss boobies out

Today is the day when the sickness sets in. Too much alcohol for too many days and not eating proper food finally takes it's toll and we just pray that we can get through the show tonight without having to leave and go to the press centre........

Anyway watched 2 rehearsals yesterday and WE HAVE NO CLUE who will win now. It could be that the very talented backing singer for Sakis will win it for Greece again, young Mr Ryback could drag the contest back to Scandinavia, Mme Kaas could be the saviour of the whole shebang or Jade ('cos of the draw) might shock everyone yet.......we will know in a few hours.

Oh and at the second rehearsal last night the German delegation has obviously been told to cover up and Ms Von Tess is more covered up than this snap from yesterday afternoon

So whoever you are, wherever you are enojy the show tonight, vote for what you like and don't throw anything at the TV when the song you hated wins!!!!!!

M+D

Final day is almost here

So it's now nearly all over for another year and we are just waiting for the first full run-through today.

This should give us more of an idea of what will happen tomorrow night. A quick look at the draw before seeing it in reality makes we smile for Jade, 'cos that's a great draw for her being the only slow song in the last 10.

Other things that jump out are the crappy draw for Bosnia, Croatia and thankfully Israel.

More thoughts later after we watch the first run-through and show our faces at the final UK press conference after the rehearsal this afternoon.

M+D

This was his night......Sadly

So we sadly have to admit that the night belonged to Greece. We now are very afraid that we have to return to Greece next year and for all the wrong reasons this performance from Sakis will almost certainly clean up tomorrow night.

Now don't get us wrong we don't hate Sakis, far from it we actually quite like him BUT this song is so boring and dull.........but he does transform it on stage.

The only thing that can really stop this now is the jurys all going for the same song, but the chances of that happening are slim....



So how did our predictions go. Well Daniel did well getting 9/10 and Mike only managed a poor 7/10. For us as well it was great to see Ukraine going through as during the show we both agreed that we thought she would miss out on a place in the final. The "fans" here really hate Svetlana and that puts a smile on my face.

The other great thing was to see Denmark go through as even though it's not the greatest song in the world it means that there is a least some Irish connection in the final.

And what about Ireland???? To be fair they performed their best last night but in reality it was probably never going to happen for them. A shame really but next year this might make RTE sit up a take notice of what get's results at ESC these days. For a good example they need look no further than this guy below.........

And for us he was the REAL star last night. The guy has had a really tough time in Moscow with horrible fans being nasty to him in Euroclub, horrible Ruskie camera crews being nasty to him and even after all that he shone last night. Let's hope this is not the last we have seen of Dimitri

And so we left and went to Euroclub, hoping that it might be getting better BUT no it's still rubbish and we were home in bed by 3 a.m. Our Eurovision partying reputation is in tatters this year.....oh well I guess we must be getting old.....

M+D