[Headie]

Originally Posted by Black Dagger

You could see her nerves, I think that was filmed a while back though, it was effectively her 2nd performance, in front of A-listers as well, confident for her chances now she's been performing more <3.

Yeah, I think the fact it was filmed at the start of April and she still sounded pretty good suggests that she'll be amazing on the actual night

[Headie]

Originally Posted by Sam <3

Just watched the graham Norton show her performance

It was filmed in early April, she looked very nervous and has improved much since then. Also the stage was quite small.

[Shaun]

I can't wait I love a good semi.

[T*]

Next Saturday I get 2 puppies and it's Eurovision day!
It's gonna be the best day ever!

[T*]

Hayden, you're probably confusing the airing date of the first episode of series 15 (April 4th, filmed 3rd April)with filming dates.

[Headie]

Originally Posted by Tom!

Um, no. It's shot on The night before (Thursday evenings) and sometimes the Tuesday before the show.

Originally Posted by Tom!

Hayden, you're probably confusing the airing date of the first episode of series 15 (April 4th, filmed 3rd April)with filming dates.

No, it was pre-recorded right at the START of April:
https://twitter.com/mollysd/status/451150285529186304

That's why she looked so nervous, since it was only like her 2nd performance.

I'm not confused at all, I remember a blog at the time saying it would air early may.

[Headie]

Originally Posted by Tom!

Hayden, you're probably confusing the airing date of the first episode of series 15 (April 4th, filmed 3rd April)with filming dates.

I never watch Graham Norton show (although I sometimes tune in for the chair flips) but I only watched last nights for Molly since I knew she'd pre-recorded it a while ago and I was excited to hear/see it

Surprised it's in it's 15th series tbh.

[T*]

Originally Posted by Hayden

I never watch Graham Norton show (although I sometimes tune in for the chair flips) but I only watched last nights for Molly since I knew she'd pre-recorded it a while ago and I was excited to hear/see it

Surprised it's in it's 15th series tbh.

Ikr, It only started in 2007 and it's on series 15!!

[Loukas]

interesting read..

Eurovision 2014: Hidden Voting Patterns Show UK Not 'Stitched Up' by Prejudice

Statistical analysis of voting patterns for the Eurovision Song Contest show they are not driven by prejudice and that the contest is not stitched up at the UK's expense.

Researchers at University College London and Imperial College London also revealed that musical talent is unlikely to be the only element that wins scores.

The analysis of voting patterns over the past two decades suggests that widespread support for certain countries' acts is based on positive loyalties based on culture, geography, history and migration. Yet these effects are small – and the team found no evidence to support Sir Terry Wogan's criticism that the contest is marred by blatant bias and discrimination.

"Migration seems to be an interesting explanation for some of the patterns that we see in the data," said Dr Gianluca Baio, of UCL, co-author of the study. "For example, Turkey seems to be scored highly by German voters, possibly due to the large number of Turkish people who have migrated to Germany, and potentially tele-vote from there. But our analysis found no convincing evidence of negative bias or discrimination against anyone – no country really has any enemies."

The team analysed voting since Eurovision introduced tele-voting in 1998. Computer analysis showed clusters of countries with similar behaviours, identifying the probability of each country belonging to a particular voting bloc in any particular year.

In line with previous findings, the results suggested that voting congregates within four broad groups of nations. One combines the former Yugoslavia, Switzerland and Austria, and another covers central and southern Europe plus a larger bloc which includes the former Soviet Union.

The UK, Ireland and Scandinavia, cleaves relatively randomly into two groups each year.

"In our analysis we used what we call a 'Bayesian hierarchical formulation' to model the scores," said study co-author Dr Marta Blangiardo. "We took into account factors like the language of the song and the gender of the singer both of which have known effects on the votes. This left behind an underlying trend for us to measure. This trend is based on cultural and geographical similarities, as well as migrations of people."

The model allows focuses on the presence of repeated voting behaviour over the years, rather than one-off factors.

"The observed data can only suggest whether there is bias, and there can be many reasons for this," Baio says. "To prove something stronger like 'discrimination' or 'favouritism', we would need more complex data, for example polling on people's motivations for voting the way they do.

Looking at the results country by country, Greece seemed to be favoured by its neighbours Cyprus and Albania, amidst a general delivery of positive votes, which is thought to be driven by widespread migrations of Greek citizens across Europe.

The study was published in the Journal of Applied Statistics.

IBTimes

[Black Dagger]

Yeah, Terry Wogan was a bellend with it, gives it the stigma now with the whole 'bloc voting omg it's all political, we're hated'... let Sweden send Daz Sampson and see if they get top 5'.. and they can **** off with everything about it is political when Germany won 4 years ago ffs.

[Braden]

What really pissed me off about Terry Wogan was how he'd always say something like "Eurovision voting as eccentric as ever", but within the next minute would make a comment like "the beauty of bloc voting", or whatever he would say.

He came across really contradictory, and his blatant pessimstic attitude towards the end of his stint with Eurovision really formed a grey rain cloud over the enjoyment of the contest.

I'm so happy we have Graham Norton now,

[Loukas]

I'm really happy Poland have decided to sing in Polish, the song sounds like 10xs better in polish! It's clear they want the man vote BOOOOOOBS

[edit]
listening to it all, it's half in english and half polish. might be a clever move from them. I'm seeing top 10 for this.

Youtube video

[Braden]

But let's face it, 95% of the male vote are not likely to be interested in her boobs

[Loukas]

Originally Posted by Braden

But let's face it, 95% of the male vote are not likely to be interested in her boobs

yep, their background included boobs too. They also have a woman sitting on stage churning butter with massive cleavage

[Headie]

Also, Molly's first rehearsal is tomorrow

[Loukas]

Originally Posted by Hayden

Also, Molly's first rehearsal is tomorrow

I think it's going to be staged kinda like how we saw it the first time. A drummer, 4 backup singers and Molly - i hope she moves around more on stage though!!

[Headie]

Molly is at #30 on iTunes!
http://kworb.net/popuk/

[Samm]

Brilliant

[Braden]

I never ever buy music, but I feel like I should support Molly and the UK by buying her song.

She's so lovely and cute too

[Loukas]

Youtube video

some of the best visuals that i've seen so far in this competition are in this performance.
why the ******* are they not dancing though

[Headie]

I'm keeping the rehearsals a surprise until the night I think, although might have a quick glance at Molly's tomorrow

[Loukas]

i wanna know the running order for the final so bad, but we won't know until after the second semi

[Black Dagger]

Originally Posted by Loukas

i wanna know the running order for the final so bad, but we won't know until after the second semi

First semi is when the Big 5 find out their fate. Pls be second half, don't do us over Denmark people </3

[Loukas]

Originally Posted by Black Dagger

First semi is when the Big 5 find out their fate. Pls be second half, don't do us over Denmark people </3

omg really?! So meaning we find out Tuesday evening?!

[Black Dagger]

Originally Posted by Loukas

omg really?! So meaning we find out Tuesday evening?!

Yeah, big 5 is revealed straight after the first semi final