{"id":10040,"date":"2017-05-08T11:08:36","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T10:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=10040"},"modified":"2017-05-08T17:35:12","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T16:35:12","slug":"its-eurovision-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=10040","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Eurovision Week!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/eurovisionsc2017.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10041\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?attachment_id=10041\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/eurovisionsc2017.png\" data-orig-size=\"400,225\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"eurovisionsc2017\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/eurovisionsc2017.png\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10041\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/eurovisionsc2017-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/eurovisionsc2017-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/eurovisionsc2017.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Semi 1: Tuesday, 8pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>BBC4<br \/>\n(The UK can vote in this one)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Semi 2: Thursday, 8pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>BBC4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Final: Saturday, 8pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>BBC1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>IT&#8217;S TIME! Everyone&#8217;s travelling to Kiev in the Ukraine for the 62nd edition of the Eurovish where we will be celebrating diversity with 42 songs, most of which power ballads sung in English, a language that&#8217;s losing its importance in Europe. As we are well aware this is a song contest and as we&#8217;re always told through various thinkpieces throughout the media politics just doesn&#8217;t come into it and this year is looking more apolitical than ever. We cannot wait!<\/p>\n<p>The UK entry is Lucie Jones. We&#8217;ve not actually heard the song anywhere since it was picked as a winner so I&#8217;m going to stick my neck out and suggest it probably won&#8217;t win.<\/p>\n<p>Annual FAQ:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Why are Australia in it? They&#8217;re not even IN Europe!&#8221; They are associate members of the European Broadcasting Union and have been invited.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Why are Israel in it? They&#8217;re not even IN Europe!&#8221;\u00a0They are members of the European Broadcasting Union.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Why are the UK in it? They&#8217;re not even IN Europe!&#8221;\u00a0They are members of the European Broadcasting Union.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;What happens if Australia wins?&#8221; They&#8217;ll probably hold the next one in Germany as a co-production with SBS.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Why is the BBC wasting the licence fee on an event we have no chance of winning?\u201d Even so it actually works out as a rather good value per hour proposition for effectively 7.5 hrs of primetime telly, which would otherwise have to be filled with <em>something<\/em>. It&#8217;s not like we&#8217;re staging it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We&#8217;re basically going into the week completely blind this year. We can&#8217;t wait for everyone on Twitter to go &#8220;this is rubbish OH BLOODY HELL THIS IS SO EXCITING&#8221; with the voting like last year. And this year there are special Twitter emojis for #12points, #eurovision, #esc2017 and #celebratediversity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Semi 1: Tuesday, 8pm BBC4 (The UK can vote in this one) Semi 2: Thursday, 8pm BBC4 Final: Saturday, 8pm BBC1 IT&#8217;S TIME! Everyone&#8217;s travelling to Kiev in the Ukraine for the 62nd edition of the Eurovish where we will be celebrating diversity with 42 songs, most of which power ballads sung in English, a\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=10040\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[803],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-2BW","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}