From the live blog:
"Aaaand we have the biggest prop of the contest so far – a metal structure made up of three enormous wings, like something off the set of a sci-fi movie. For scale, each section is bigger than Australia’s staircase, maybe four or five metres high? Sam’s on an illuminated...
Total fiasco… no idea how some people got tickets to more than one show (without fan club packages)!
Bad queuing system, ticket availability not accurate, site crashing and freezing, stalling at security verification and payment… awful.
And when are they going to start selecting MUCH bigger...
In what is turning out to be a really downbeat/sad boy/sad girl/ballad year I’m starting to think the U.K. is going to stand out…
Our other notable upbeats are Fuego 4.0 aka Chanel and Ukraine/France which I think cancel each other out a bit… and the rest are fairly middle-of-the-road radio pop…
For what it’s worth… if it is Sam Ryder with “Space Man”…
The negatives - there’s a part of me, and many fans, that want the U.K. to just send a damn banger. Especially as this year seems very ballad/rock. A U.K. Fuego/She Got Me… maybe sitting up there with Chanel for Spain… “Why can’t we have...
Am I the only person that thinks a strategy of stealth-dropping a song and then announcing “oh yes, our entry this year is X and yeah that’s that song you already know’ makes sense?
I’m not saying I necessarily think that’s what the BBC have done, but I don’t think it’d be too wild a strategy...
I guess we’ll find out soon enough. Either it’s Space Man, Sam Ryder with another song, or there is some serious red-herring action with hints that make it look like it’s Space Man/Sam Ryder even though it’s not…
Well Australia that really was a bit of a hot mess but maybe you’re rusty after a year off… still had fun!
I could take or leave Sheldon, Voyager or Jaguar Jones…
Maybe decent staging will see qualification but just a meh year for me for 🇦🇺