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I'm fortunate enough to have been in the audience at each, including multiple visits to the snooker and jiging along to The Chieftains at Wembley Conference Centre.
Astonished that it took almost a hundred years to resolve the acoustic issues at RAH.
Frank F | 09.05.23 - 7:42 a.m. | #
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Television Centre was also venue of the 2007 edition of the short-lived Eurovision Dance Contest, if that counts as part of Eurovision history.
Also, mention of the UK's 1964 entry warrants a link to his obituary, as he had quite a career besides. He was even a candidate in the 2015 general election despite having died a few weeks previously.
martin | 09.05.23 - 7:44 a.m. | #
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the RFH always gets tagged with being concrete brutalism, but there is really very little exposed concrete, and the cladding is Portland stone. most of the visible concrete are the raised walkways which were part of the later south bank developments.
Alistair Twin | 09.05.23 - 9:13 a.m. | #
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A good quiz question for the future. What have the Netherlands, France and Ukraine got in common?
Petras409 | 09.05.23 - 9:45 a.m. | #
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"Singing High, High, High" - now that was a song!
Betterbee | 09.05.23 - 10:42 a.m. | #
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I suspect London's major large venues are booked up a year in advance, so even if they had wanted to hold it in London this year, they would have struggled to find somewhere, especially as it seems to take a week now.
Eurovision seemed to have much smaller and quieter audiences in the old days, when did it turn into the massive event it is now?
Mikey C | 09.05.23 - 10:47 a.m. | #
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Not quite the case that the RFH was always fully accessible from the start. The National Theatre led the way from 1976 with its — then radical — all-day open-access policy. In contrast, the RFH still only let people in to the ground-floor box office area, until the first of its many bombastic masterplans (mostly not followed through for lack of funds) led to the opening up that now maroons it as an island of performance in an ocean of catering outlets. Suspect the current restricted access is the result of soaring energy costs and consistent under-funding.
Labourer | 09.05.23 - 10:52 a.m. | #
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1960: "The UK came had come second...". Having trouble making your mind up?
miker | 09.05.23 - 12:51 p.m. | #
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Been in the audience at all four venues, but I stopped watching Eurovision when the audiences became larger and noisier!
Apart from Sam Ryder who seemed to be everywhere last year, Bucks Fizz is the last UK act whose offering I remember ever hearing!
Cornish Cockney | 09.05.23 - 2:12 p.m. | #
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Don’t think the ‘performed in two of them’ comment was missed. You are a man of mystery, which is how I like it.
Thanks for the round up. For some odd reason the opening images of the Harrogate event, of the atrium, are seared in my mind as one of my earliest TV memories. I will inflict the same on my son this weekend.
Lux | 09.05.23 - 2:40 p.m. | #
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If running training sessions or speaking at conferences counts, I have performed at three of the non-London venues (Harrogate, Birmingham and Liverpool)
Anders | 09.05.23 - 4:48 p.m. | #
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Please excuse the pedantry but the 29th of March. 1960 couldn’t have fallen on a Saturday. I was born on the 9th of April 1960, a Saturday. Chelsea won 5-1 at Highbury that day, a glorious day all round really.
dg writes: Sorry, I must learn to copy from Wikipedia better.
Kev Hennessy | 09.05.23 - 5:49 p.m. | #
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Fed up with Eurovision already, BBC going way over the top again because 'EVERYBOBY loves Eurovision!'.
MKIan | 09.05.23 - 7:01 p.m. | #
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Well IanMK please consider it payback for them inflicting unending and openly biased coronation coverage on everyone. As a Eurovision-loving republican, this episode of BBC balance is our turn to bask in coverage of the beautiful event.
Nick | 09.05.23 - 7:16 p.m. | #
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(sigh)
diamond geezer | Homepage | 09.05.23 - 7:18 p.m. | #
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In March 1979 an episode of The Professionals was filmed at Wembley Conference Centre. Good shots of both inside and outside. The episode also features inside shots of the now demolished Palace of Engineering on Olympic Way.
bernie | 10.05.23 - 9:05 a.m. | #
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