Oh boy, this year the UK is—surreally—entering Sam Battle, aka Look Mum No Computer, as their contestant in the Eurovision Song Contest. Yes, it's *that* Sam, who built the Furby Organ.
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@cstross maybe it's because I'm not British, but I am totally not excited that one of my favourite YouTubers and makers will be taking part in a contest which is being actively boycotted because of its pro-Israel bias.
@cstross and this is the only Eurovision artist whose Synthbike I have played as well as followed projects of his.
@cstross My initial thought was "the UK shouldn't participate in Eurovision this year for ethical reasons" but on second thought if they *are* participating... embrace the chaos clown show!
@cstross for the first time in my life, I've actually seen a Eurovision artist perform live before they got announced.
This is a weird feeling
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@cstross That set-up just looks like trouble -- if someone spills water on the cute little Grem... I mean Furbys.
@cstross In Vienna, we do like the classics.
@cstross Haha wow! Now we need to precision time his performance to avoid the rest of the circus of horror.
@cstross that is very surprising.
Well, in that case, Sweden should send Mattias Krantz:
@cstross Sam is a genuine treasure. I can’t wait for whatever madness he comes up with.
@cstross Pffffffft. "Surreal". Come back to me when you enter a puppet turkey with a Dublin city accent.
https://eurosong-contest.fandom.com/wiki/Dustin_the_Turkey
https://www.eurovision.com/eurovision-song-contest/belgrade-2008/all-participants/dustin-the-turkey/
@cstross wait seriously? He's a amazing we need to support this mission!
You've got me on "furby organ".
That's so stupid, it's awesome!😆
Also Sam's funny.👍
@cstross The same Sam Battle who now has an old Rolls Royce tank engine and ideas about transplanting it into a Mini!
@cstross love that guy, and at least he'll bring some much needed originality into the compo
@cstross whoa! That one!?????
@cstross I hope he brings Kosmo with him. Always fun to watch live.
@cstross And suddenly, I have a horse in the race…
@cstross For what little it counts, Sam's video in a maker secret santa where he made a multiselector-based LED sign for ThisOldTony wound up being the accidental gateway to my (very middling) entry into modular synths.
He's a very capable musician, whatever else might be said abouy Eurovision.
@cstross yeah, I got to point out to some friends that my name is in the announcement photo taken in front of the megadrone. His museum is awesome, I had a brilliant day there back in October.
@cstross A living, breathing, bona fide genius who happens to be a great musician. I hope he just drags his live rig onto the stage and asks the audience which song he should play.
EMBRACE THE CHAOS.
@cstross Well if we are going to get Nil points we might as well do it properly and thumb our nose at the whole thing.
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@aadeacon He could go down in a blaze of glory but I feel he also has the potential to go the Full Lordi:
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@gsuberland @aadeacon I missed that!
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@gsuberland @cstross @aadeacon wait, what? When was that? Missed that completely!
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@FlohEinstein @cstross @aadeacon yeah, the lead singer said some really gross stuff a few years back. I was supremely disappointed.
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@gsuberland tbh hatari is an excellent first place to replace them
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@jaseg they're great. I had tickets to go see them a while back, but unfortunately the gig got cancelled 'cos of the pandemic.
@cstross I am now interested in Eurovision for the first time ever.