There may be one more memorable phrase for Yorkshire visitors, to be fair.

Post a poster you used to have on your wall

In 2024, 🇮🇪‘s Bambie Thug complained to EBU over offensive comments by 🇮🇱 #Eurovision commentators (and reported intrusive filming by 🇮🇱 delegation members). Now 🇭🇷‘s Lelek upset that 🇮🇱 commentator said their traditional tattoo motifs looked like they’d ’overdone the henna in Eilat’

Going to the wild wild west Where the only rest is for the wicked Where even if you do your best and you pass the test Doesn’t mean you’ll make it

In Croatia the lesbian group LORI was using it in 2002 - as per poster I kept seeing on the way into Rijeka (where they came from) that September So wherever it had started, it had got there by then

Display an album that was important to you when you were nineteen.

Ukraine selects its #Eurovision entry tonight, so here’s 🇺🇦’s official digital diplomacy channel, telling its audience about what the selection’s ‘live discussion about taste, values, and how Ukraine presents itself to Europe’ means today m.facebook.com/story.php?st...

In 2007-8, the music NGO formed by famous 🇵🇸 fusion band Sabreen still teamed up with 🇩🇰 artists Superflex to lobby for 🇵🇸 to enter #Eurovision The son of Sabreen’s founder is… Bashar Murad

Because 🇵🇸 isn’t in the International Telecoms Union and its broadcaster in occupied West Bank can’t join EBU, has never been represented at Eurovision except through diaspora. The Olympics did recognise 🇵🇸 in 1995, so viewers of Paris’s opening ceremony saw this.

And off on tour this goes as well. Good luck with publisher’s reviewers, little book.

There’s 40% off all books on @manchesterup.bsky.social’s website until 31 Jan, including Race & The Yugoslav Region and Off White - automatic at checkout for most places, North American costumers use discount code JAN40

Conchita Wurst steps back from #Eurovision, the year 🇦🇹 is hosting again: ‘My connection to the ESC remains - as part of my history, not as the place for my next steps.’ The singer who dedicated her 2014 win to ‘everyone who believes in a future of peace and freedom’ has left the contest behind.

Severina, as in Croatia’s #Eurovision 2006 representative and all-round post-Yugoslav pop megastar, has been speaking up for this.

Páll Óskar was #Eurovision ‘s first openly 🏳️‍🌈 contestant for 🇮🇸 in 1997 - today he was protesting outside his broadcaster’s HQ for RÚV to withdraw

In 1993, 🇮🇪‘s Fionnuala Sweeney welcomed viewers to ‘the first year of the European single market. A market made up of over 350m European citizens … Yes, the #Eurovision Song Contest is growing bigger’ Bambie Thug, 🇮🇪 entrant in 2024 who protested vs rule breaches by 🇮🇱 delegation, was 2 months old

‘Possible Categories of Homosexuals in the Forces’ according to the Ministry of Defence’s ‘Homosexual Policy Assessment Team’, 1996. Tag yourself, etc.

I wouldn’t put it past them to style their Joan exactly the same way except the Milla Jovovich one in ‘99 already did it.

Queer 🇵🇸 designers Trashy Clothing (fashionstudiesjournal.com/Queer-Fashio...) nearly worked with 🇮🇸‘s Hatari for #Eurovision coloured carpet in 2019, did work with 🇵🇹’s Iolanda in 2024, now with Bambie Thug (🇮🇪 ‘24) for last night’s Together for Palestine fundraiser.

Pikachu turned up in the Belgrade student protests as well.

But for numerous reasons we are still a very long way away from seeing a Eurovision equivalent of this from Paris Olympics opening ceremony (🇵🇸 has an Olympic committee, doesn’t have broadcaster independent enough to join EBU which organises Eurovision, only ever gets repped there through diaspora)

Lots of reactions to new Eurovision branding have been saying it looks ‘childish’. Quite convenient when you’ve got a suddenly contentious international event on your hands. Let’s keep everything safe and friendly for the kids.

No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?

Many new measures for Eurovision this year are meant to bring it into line with production of other large-scale events. New flag policy for flag parade and green room is part of that for EBU. But means no more celebrations of 🏳️‍🌈/🏳️‍⚧️ and national identity at once.

Eurovision always trades on fun. Parties, glitter, disco balls, the 🏳️‍🌈 community who faithfully zhizh it up for everyone else. This year’s also gone big on heritage. 🇨🇭 was the first host country in 1956, and the last time it won before Nemo, its winner became an Abba-level global megastar.

Nemo on 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ flags at Eurovision: ‘You can’t be known for like the queerest thing in the world, a contest that has been associated with queerness and gay culture for so long, and then be like, “oh, we don’t allow Pride flags for the artists” They nearly didn’t get this one into their own flag parade