Shit List part 1

Last week saw Friday the 13th!
To 'celebrate' this infamous day my favourite radio station, Studio Brussel, compiled something called "The Shit List". This was a compilation of the DJs suggestions of songs that either make you feel shit, remind you of shit sor lift you up when your having shit times.
My list is most DEFINITELY the former!
Next time I will play those songs that, for me at least, are the latter... part 2!

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Barefoot Eurovision

The podcast is back!

Sorry for the delay but a combination of being back at work, doing a 5km run and losing my voice has meant fitting in the podcast has not been at the top of the 'to do' pile.

This week I celebrate Denmark's win by looking back at some of the other Eurovision acts that have taken to the stage without their shoes. Obviously there are the famous ones but there are some classic songs that didn't do so well that deserve a spin.

As I discuss with myself, the next podcast will be inspired by a Friday the 13th feature on the best radio station in the world, Studio Brussel...

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Possible Eurovision

This week I take a look at the songs I heard on honeymoon and extrapolate whether ANY of the songs or artists are Eurovision material. And as I explain at the top of the show, most of them possibly would not be on the stage for France...

Next week we'll be back with a 'normal' podcast with all your favourite Eurovision songs, memories and stories :o)


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Eurovision Albums

Finally back from honeymoon and back home with a plethora of Eurovision music!
Today I've looked at some of the Eurovision based music I've bought and played some tracks from them. See this as an 'album taster' and might inspire you to buy the album... try before you buy almost!

Of course, spending most of my time in France, most of the music is in French or by French artists however a few Eurovision winners from further afield get around too!

Next time the podcast will be about the non-Eurovision music I heard the possibly should have been Eurovision... perhaps...

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A Eurovision Honeymoon

This week's podcast has a personal feel as this time next week I will be on my way to my honeymoon to the south of France, so I have chosen some songs with a journey/holiday theme although as you will hear I seem to make up the connections as I go along.
Unscripted and disjointed warbling at it's best.

I will be back in about three weeks after the big adventure x !


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Random Eurovision

Sorry for the big gaps between podcasts but I have been slightly busy!

This week has a totally random feel as I just chose 7 songs from the random lyrics tab on the diggiloo.net website at about 3pm today. Luckily most of the songs were good 'uns although I did slightly chicken out on the full names of the performers of the Turkish entry!

I intend to do another podcast in about 2 weeks time so if you have any requests or programme thoughts or show ideas get in touch!


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2013 Round Up

Eurovision is over and we have a winner -  although we know the dates of Eurovision 2014 we await the knowledge of exactly where Eurovision will be held next year.

In this episode I go over some of the notes I made during Eurovision, about the visuals and the singing - including A LOT of technical things I noticed happen again and again...

I also gloss over the voting 'scandal' and suggest that it's really all a storm in a samovar. However the difference between jury and televote is growing - can anythign be done to curb it?
I come up witha voting system, based on an Olympic sport, that might widen the pool but narrow the gap...

 

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2013 Final Predictions

So the final is almost upon us - aaaaaarrrrrrrgggggghhhhhhh!

The semis are behind us (with some questionable qualifiers and omissions) and the running order finalised. In today's podcast we look to the final and decided who has got the best and worst draws. This year is a very open one and any of about 10 songs could win - just where will the ex-Yugoslav douze points go...?

We will be back in a few weeks time after the dust has settled and the results chewed over and we will then review EXACTLY what happened and why and what they possible fallout might be!

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Semi-final predictions

Now that "Shite or Alright" is over @mrs_forky is back on her todd...
Although we decided our fave songs of the podcasts and our overall favourite, how did the songs compare when placed in their semi-finals? As you will find out one semi-final was an open and shut case, the other needed a mega tie-breaker!

I also examine the fact that this year SVT decided the running order, not a draw as per usual, and wonder if 1) they did a good job
2) it is 'fair'  and unbiased and
3) the winning broadcaster for 2014 would consider using this method again next year..?
I have a *very* busy week ahead but am hoping to do another quick round up podcast next Friday to look back at the semis and look forward to the final !
Music from Loreen, Corry Brocken and Linda Martin...

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SOA_6

The final Shite or Alright of 2013 is here ! @mrs_forky and @jopijedd cast a sharp eye and tongue over some more of this year's Eurovision entries.
Introduced this week in the style of BBC 2 -  and just incase you are wondering, this is the DDVHolland podcast and not the Antiques Roadshow!

During this week's show, Mr Jopijedd has a rant about the Killers, we also remember that for smaller, less known countries in Eurovision circles there is not such thing as bad publicity... I try to convince him that San Marino *IS* a proper country and I also wonder if DVVHolland could enter Eurovision...  And if anybody ever wondered what a Cypriot Wurzels tribute band would sound like - wonder no more!
And just to re-iterate don't vote UKIP.

 

And at the end of the podcast we put together the 6 heat winners to have our De Vogels Van Holland tip for the top!

 

Entries under the microscope are Ireland, Lithuania, Cyprus, Sweden, Montenegro and San Marino.

 

Because of the short amount of time since the last podcast  we are extending the last #jinglypo competition  to next week when we work out who we think will be qualifying for the final.

If you know the Eurovision host town/city that jingly Po is going on holiday to, send us a tweet at @DVVHolland with the hashtag #jinglypo  or write on our facebook wall - address below - with your answer (CLUE - think retro and think holiday!)  And yes you can guess as many times as you want!  

We had such good 'ratings' for this feature last year that we would like to thank everybody who listened to it this year and have the balls to come back this year

If you *are* new, thanks for coming, tell all your Eurovision friends and SHARE SHARE SHARE !!!!

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