Thanks to everyone who joined our live chat on Thursday evening. We only gave you guys 20 minutes notice — this was all rather impromptu and last minute! — but it was great to see so many familiar names and to read your funny comments and questions.
In this video we briefly send our best wishes to Edoardo Grassi, the departing Head of Delegation for France. The news of his departure sent shockwaves through the fandom earlier today and you can read all about it. That’s from 2:37 in the video above.
And from 6:17 you can hear me — and Kiwi Robyn and Aussie Sebastian — sounding off on what form Australia’s rumoured national selection may take. Full article on that below.
What do you want us to focus on in our next live chat?
Talk About Ireland at Eurovision 2019
Send someone like Vance Joy!
I think Australia’s competitive advantage isn’t actually with the big name pop singers, but with accessible indie-pop. That’s where we punch way above our weight, and sending someone in that vein would both be a good representation of Australia and also provide a bit of a point of difference – and in the last decade, a number of winners have won because of their difference from the norm. Further, the Aussie artists who have had major international success in the last few years have also been indie-pop ish, from Flume to Sia, Chet Faker to Gotye, and even at a… Read more »
For the next live chat, I hope you guys discuss Eurovision 2019 and the preparations surrounding it and Melfest 2019 and I would also love it if during the next live chat, you could also do a segment where you guys look back on Eurovision 2018 and discuss things like shock qualifiers/non-qualifiers, surprising results, biggest disappointments, growers, and surprises, etc.
It was great!
Thank you for the live chat, very curious to see what Australia will come up with in 2019 🙂