The UK's relevant, hip, current, exciting act for Eurovision 2013 is Bonnie Tyler
 

yay maximum of 30 points again <3

:joker:

she cant be any worse than Englebert, in fact Eastern Europe might love her.

Yes Valid Point

Thought that said the song was written by Diana Vickers.

So did I, I had to read it twice to see that she didn't....

It could be worse. It could be some tripe artist that's current.

She should of done Total Eclipse of the Heart.

After the career high of performing on Big Brothers Bit On The Side I can't believe she's doing Eurovision. You don't need this downgrade Bonnie :sad:

It must be difficult to work out what the UK needs to do to get in the higher placings in this contest now.

I guess we can only hope for the best but expect little now,after all it is not only the Eastern bloc countries who don't give the UK reasonable or even any votes.
Even close neighbours like France rarely throw any votes our way.

Bonnie Tyler may just succeed where others have failed so badly in recent years.
Having said that if Blue could only come where they did, then we are always now likely going to be one of the also rans near permanently.

I doubt we would ever get a really big star on the current scene to even want to do Eurovision now unlike the past.
An act like One Direction, who for instance have stormed to success all over the place are an act that would likely pull in the votes for Eurovision but probably wouldn't even consider entering.

I like bonnie :hmph:

oh never her of her before but the songs lovely

Amazing :laugh2:

I don't think the 'radio 1' mindset is applicable to eurovision, as you need someone and something that is appealing across differing cultures.

she really did that? ;______;

yeah she did shaun

She'll always be a fierce bitch in my eyes purely for Saint's Row 3.

You've never heard of Bonnie Tyler?

nah never like

I've known it was going to be her or Petula Clark for the past 2 weeks, but still had hope it'd be Paloma Faith or Hurts.

FFS. I barely like any songs this year as it is.

Oh dear me :laugh:

Bonnie Tyler has been picked to represent the UK in this year's Eurovision competitio
 

http://news.sky.com/story/1061356/bo...ovision-rivals

when did she get pick :conf:

micheal to late one already posted but they pick at the start of the year

sky just got this news so much for 1st for breaking news :laugh:

oh well micheal
you win some you lose some

did i win :amazed:

It's great news, Michael! :dance:

yeah you did :hugesmile:

never hear of her but going to listen to her song tonight

Bonny's last chance for a pension pot ..... :puzzled:

ouch,

:joker:

:laugh2:

Its better than the last one

only if we win :idc:

micheal i think ness that because
she like bonnie

i no a girl called Connie and she very hot :evilgrin:

Give Her a Chance

It's hard to with such a dreary song... still, maybe we can just crack 23rd place :amazed:

thank nice micheal

Phew,not because she likely wouldn't do well but I am really glad Petula Clark is not doing it, although she does still have a very strong base of fans in European countries.
I am a massive fan of hers.

Also a track from her new album which is currently in the charts, 'Cut,Copy Me' would have actually been a very credible entry for the UK but overall I thank all powers that be that if she was asked to do it, she then turned it down.
I watched Engelbert fail disastrously last year and just feel Eurovision, although I enjoy it, is really anything but a song contest now.

The UK sleepwalks into this every year now, I do think Bonnie Tyler is a good choice though and I hope she does well.

As you say an artiste like Paloma Faith would have been a great choice,however I really cannot see in the foreseeable future any really current regular hitmaker even considering doing Eurovision now.

Half the points are from a judging panel anyway (because UK decided to kill the fun for everybody else) so I guess we'll do alright.

How have we gone from a great act like Blue to two old pensioners in a row