The One With The Russian Grandmas (TAE REDO : 2012)

In this episode, Matti and Chrissy discuss the values of Jedward, the reign of Queen Loreen, and the questionable choice of Russia to send a cohort of grandmothers to the contest.

In This Episode: Matti and Chrissy realize that the reason this episode took so long to come out was because life is chaos. But once realized, they got together to discuss 2 Canadian national treasures who competed, beautiful Spanish people and a whole host of rambling foolishness.

"I believe that children are the future" sang Whitney Houston, who famously played The Fairy Godmother in the 1997 TV Movie, Rogers and Hammerstein's Cinderella. Anyway, with that said, it's time for the Think About Eurovision JESC podcast, where Kris pops by to talk about the contest with Chrissy and Matti, all the way from the Falkland Islands!

Hello from the land of the Penguins!! I'm popping onto the feed to share my chat with Liz about Junior Eurovision on Falklands Radio. I should also be back sometime late on Sunday to discuss the contest and the winner alongside Chrissy and Matti, and then I'll be leaving them to keep going through the contests covered by me and Kim. Unfortunately internet is still quite limited down here, both in terms of bandwidth and amount of data allowance, so I can't come back full time to the podcast quite yet, but I'm going to make sure to come back as much as possible!! Thank you all for your support listening to the podcast. Ok, love yas!! Kris P.S. If you want to hear me on the radio, go to www.radio.co.fk and tune in around 15:15 UK time GMT/16:15 BST and you may just hear me being an *actual* broadcast journalist! I KNOW!!

In This Episode: Matti and Chrissy revisit the earliest Eurovision they can and review the importance of tiny horses, the longest song ever and the disappointing debut of the UK as they follow in the footsteps of Kris and Kim.

IN THIS EPISODE: Matti and Chrissy Highjack the podcast to share their perspectives on a very popular Eurovision year and discuss dream men, Russian twins and a whole lot of other cheese (cake).

In this episode we speak German, English and French (also Canadian and Raccoon), admire some floristry and we float the simply ludicrous notion that juries don’t have the musical knowledge to appreciate music outside of their own specialist interest. I know, who’da thunk it? - Please accept our apologies for some sound issues with static noises at a couple of points Somewhere That’s Green - Little Shop of Horrors New Romantic Icons, Visage - Fade to Grey Bucks Fizz - Making Your Mind Up Jane Fonda Workout Tony Clifton on the Fantastic Miss Piggy Show Whip It - Devo Bananarama - Venus Siouxsie And The Banshees - Spellbound The Human League - (Keep Feeling) Fascination How German Sounds Compared To Other Languages -- From a German Perspective! | Feli from Germany Celine Dion - Ne Partez Pas Sans Moi Carola - Fangad Av En Stormvind Documentary on the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre I Am So Happy To Be Back Home (Trololol song) Noa Kirel - Unicorn Britney Spears - …Baby One More Time Nicki French - Don’t Play That Song Again Weird Al Yankovic - The Hamilton Polkla Fun House Theme Song Hurricane - Loco Loco Frank Sinatra - Strangers In The Night Horst Yankowski - A Walk In The Black Forest Support the Think About Eurovision Network, and our Think About Eurovision co-host Matti, by visiting ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠OneChicGeek.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and using promo code TAE15 for 15% off artwork made into fashion!

n this week’s DNQ Files Kris treats a post-Covid Chrissy to an easy going song, perfect for somebody currently convalescing… sorry, I mean he goes out of his way to traumatise her!  Following Matti finding himself merely whelmed, we look at something that is definitely not going to have that effect on Chrissy. This episode features a haunted puppet. Cabaret Punk legends, The Tiger Lillies - Crack of Doom Overthinking It… Eurovision - The Four Ways Eurovision Gets Political (featuring a segment on Eurovision and Soft Power) Support the Think About Eurovision Network, and our Think About Eurovision co-host Matti, by visiting ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠OneChicGeek.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and using promo code TAE15 for 15% off artwork made into fashion!

In this week’s DNQ Files we look at a song that both qualified for Eurovision, and didn’t go to Eurovision at all, as we are dashed upon the rocks, listening to Maruv’s Siren Song for Ukraine in 2019 WELLBOY - Nozzy Bossy Svetlana Loboda - Be My Valentine Go_A - Solovey Go_A - Shum Freedom Jazz - Cupidon Kazka - Apart Páll Óskar - Minn Hinsti Dans Aisel - X My Heart TuralTuranX - Tell Me More   Support the Think About Eurovision Network, and our Think About Eurovision co-host Matti, by visiting ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠OneChicGeek.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and using promo code TAE15 for 15% off artwork made into fashion!

In this weeks DNQ Files, Kris is joined by Hannah Maxwell, a storyteller who blends theatre, performance art, stand-up, spoken words and musicals into brilliant shows, and shares a French treat with her (and it’s not a croissant, email your complaints to the usual address!) We talk about her solo Edinburgh Fringe show, Nan, Me & Barbara Pravi, discuss the hosts of BBC quiz shows for smartypants and fail to speak French. Barbra Pravi - Voila Mastermind  Conchita Wurst - Rise Like A Phoenix  Join Us Lisa Novi Fosili - Ja sam za ples (4th place at Eurovision 1987)  Backstreet Boys - As Long As You Love Me (we don’t listen to this) Juliette Moraine - Pour’vu Qu’on M’aime Your Song - Moulin Rouge Pony X - Amour Fou Lord Buckethead Dihaj - Skeletons Mae Muller - I Wrote A Song Buy tickets for Hannah's Oxford Preview on Wednesday 26th of July here Buy tickets for Nan, Me & Barbara Pravi at Edinburgh Fringe here You can find Hannah on: Twitter Instagram Facebook Support the Think About Eurovision Network, and our Think About Eurovision co-host Matti, by visiting ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠OneChicGeek.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and using promo code TAE15 for 15% off artwork made into fashion!