I was really hoping they would pick Shannon Noll

Has no international appeal! So frustrating.

Horrible choice.











I think we might actually win!

Or a record company with the deepest pockets?

Shit memes' best day

Just, I don't even...how?
Hes a has-been. an artist (if you can call him that) that just does cover albums now.
Theres so many Australian musicians out there that are doing new and exciting things.
....and we choose him??

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Uninspired doesn't quite cut it.

I want to be surprised that they chose him. But I'm not.

He must the best PR Manager to pull this off.

And it's Guy Sebastian

This is one of my favorites.

She got booed because she was so arrogant and a bitch leading up to the performance. Which was clearly a joke people didnt get.

But to put the words "Oh my god. Its a golden shower" into the lyrics (while standing under a prop shower) is a masterstroke.

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Yep.

10/10 for historical appropriateness of song choice though.

Does the song have to be original?

There's a brilliant live recording of Dan Sultan, John Butler and Missy Higgins signing 'From little things big things grow'. Something like that would be great if it's allowed.

Just not my cup of tea :lol:

Why not to AC/DC, on what grounds mate?

I would like to see Client Liason at eurovision, I love the way they take the piss out of Australias early 90s cultural cringes.

Eurovision 2015: TISM 37 times more popular than Kylie Minogue as proposed Australian representative
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February 12, 2015
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Could Eurovision 2015 become Euro-TISM?
After hearing that an Australian act will compete in Eurovision this year, a fan of 80s band TISM quickly wrote a petition for change.org.
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A former member of irreverent but defunct Australian rock band TISM says the group won't be fulfilling the wishes of petitioners calling on it to strive for the Eurovision finals in May.

Unless they are offered an obscenely large sum of money.

On Wednesday, news broke that Australia - despite being some 15,000km from Europe - had been formally invited to compete at Eurovision 2015 in Austria. A representative has not yet been named.

Popular ... could TISM be the (hidden) face of Australia at Eurovision?
Popular ... could TISM be the (hidden) face of Australia at Eurovision?
According to two petitions since posted on the website change.org, support for the faceless 1990s Melbourne rock band to represent Australia swamps Kylie's by proportions of roughly 37 to 1.

TISM (This is Serious Mum) produced a series of beloved anti-pop anthems in the mid-1990s and early 2000s, such as (He'll Never be an) Ol Man River and Greg! The Stop Sign!!. It later broadened its palette to include The Parable of Glenn McGrath's Hair, If You're Not Famous at Fourteen, You're Finished and Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me. TISM last performed in 2004.

So far 274 people have signed a change.org petition calling for Kylie to represent Australia, while 10,244 have supported the call for TISM to take the stage in Vienna from May 23.

Damian Cowell, a former member of TISM wants us to know he has a solo show on.
Former TISM member Damian Cowell. Photo: Simon Schluter
"My official position is I cannot comment on behalf of TISM due to respect for my former colleagues and artisic integrity," said former member Humphrey B. Flaubert (Damian Cowell).

"However if a giant multinational with horrendous human rights record was to give me a huge cheque I'll dob in my grandmother."

Flaubert found the petition: "Hilarious and deeply flattering [that TISM was associated] with trashy crap disco music performed in a shoddy cheesy fashion in a highly rigged political arena.

"But it's all good."

Cowell did raise the point that the timing of the petition could be fishy, given his own project, Damian Cowell's Disco Machine is playing at Sydney's Newtown Social Club on Valentines Day and at The Corner Hotel in Melbourne on February 20. Could it all be a promotional stunt designed to draw punters?

"It does have the whiff of a huge media hoax by me, doesn't it?" Cowell said.

"You've got to ask yourself 'are you the subject of a terrible dupe'? Some kind of KLF-like scheme? Are you part of the great media-art installation construct?

"I would say that if I had constructed the entire stunt myself I would neither confirm no deny it, but leave it hanging there like one of the horrendous long pauses in My Kitchen Rules."

Whatever we fell for, if anything, like so many Australians we fell willingly



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The Presets.

Need a gimmick or tits to get votes basically.

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F***ing no.

Has to be a pisstake act - TISM, Austentayshus or Chris Franklin (I'm a Bloke, I'm an Ocker...)

Only 'real' musical act we should send otherwise is AC/DC

Alt option is to get the Aussies who represented other countries at past Eurovisions to do a medley (Newton-John, Gina G, Johnny Logan etc)

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It would have to be Kylie wouldn't it?

Midnight Oil for sure

They'll put you up for war crimes :lol:

We need to let the world know about Melbourne Bounce.

hmm is that Awer Mabil. :lol:

Just joking :D

Edited by Barca4life: 12/2/2015 11:06:17 AM

John Williamson it is then.

Her songs are awesome but I doubt having her back to the audience the whole time will rate highly with the Euro crowd. They will need someone who engages the crowd and has good stage presence.

I personally wouldn't send her, but in terms of a marketable name... She's the very obvious candidate.

:lol: :lol: that's a perma-ban