In this episode, Kris chats with Matti to talk about his smash hit Fringe show, A Canadian Explains Eurovision to Americans/Canadians, which sold out some of its shows and led to him receiving fan art!
We discuss the trials and tribulations of Fringe life, including temperamental clickers, adding 170 new sound cues at the last minute, and running into Baby Lasagna fans.
Matti talks about how the show isn't just a history lesson but also a deep dive into his own relationship with the contest.
Plus, we ask the important question: can we get demonetised if we don't make any money in the first place?
Yes, hello, yes! Think About Eurovision is coming back! And we'd like to know your thoughts on the 2025 contest!
Let us know what you think about *that* televote, the production of the show, and where the UK is going wrong and what can be done better!
Email us at thinkabouteurovision@gmail.com or reply in the comments below on Spotify!
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.
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?
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Please accept our apologies for some sound issues with static noises at a couple of points
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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.
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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
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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.
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Firstly, I’d like to apologise for the shocking audio quality from my end - for some reason our online recording software decided to switch my default microphone to the inline one on my headphones.
Now that’s out of the way, in this week’s DNQ files, we take a look at two songs that could have replaced Coco with Bad Old Days in Eurovision 1978, starting with a band formerly known as The Bicycle Turds, and Britain’s answer to The Three Degrees.
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In this week’s episode, Kris flubs his introduction, Matti has a religious revelation and we indulge in a light spot of schadenfreude, as we take a look at two songs that failed to qualify for the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest... could the UK have done better in 2007? Ooh, it's such a mystery.... *wryly looks to camera*
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In this episode the trio *finally* bring you the episode we’ve been looking forward to for the past couple of months, and absolutely haven’t stalled on recording, 1962. We discuss how much we can remember 16 songs (spoiler, not much), Kris provides health and safety advice for around the home and we suggest that Ronnie Carrol was availing himself of the services of call girls. So, there’s that. Happy 100th Episode (sorry)
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Kris and Chrissy are back from a short post-Eurovision break, and straight into looking at some songs that failed to qualify, and today we're heading over to Sweden for Melodifestivalen 2023, and the icons, the moment, the legends, Eva and Ewa! We discuss conspiracy theories, Swedish language and we are nothing but respectful towards senior citizens.
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In this episode we discuss the 2023 Eurovision Grand Final, Kris is delighted to *actually enjoy* the Flag Parade, Chrissy threatens to cause herself an allergic reaction in protest and Matti speaks some French
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In this week’s episode Kris discusses his youthful good looks, Matti tells us about his dad’s way of “texting” and Chrissy cat does a great big smelly poo.
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In this episode of the DNQ Files, we take a look at the songs that failed to qualify from the first semi final of the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest. Matti has been drinking gas station champagne and calling from a balcony in Canada, Kris is drinking Baileys, Chrissy is on the tea and keeping the lads in check, and the jokes are worse than usual!
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It's Eurovision Month!! Wooh!
And to celebrate this, Kris has put together a delightfully devilishly difficult, practically impossible to Google, Eurovision quiz!