Tag Archives: Conchita Wurst

If you’re a wallpaper person, there’s a new pattern available. (Tipped by JMG reader Roger)

Via press release: Pride in London announced this evening that Eurovision winner Conchita Wurst will be the headline performer at Pride in London in Trafalgar Square on 28th June. The announcement was made at 1800 on Explovia – London’s going out app – which is a partner of Pride in London, promoting the festival of events that make up Pride …

Tori Amos performed in Austria this weekend where she delighted fans by covering Conchita Wurst’s winning Eurovision hit, Rise Like A Phoenix. This clip was taken by a rather excitable fanboy, so there’s a bit of shouting and hooting. (Tipped by JMG reader BK)

Vladimir Putin has condemned Eurovision winner Conchita Wurst for “aggressively” putting her sexuality “on show.” Via the Telegraph: The Russian President, who said he was “very liberal”, was attempting to pour water on a controversy which saw thousands of Russians protest before Wurst’s performance and the Orthodox Church describe her as an “abomination” by saying she has the “right” to …

Prior to Russia joining Eurovision in 1994, the then-Soviet Union staged its own song contest for several years. Thanks to Conchita Wurst, the contest is returning. Via the Hollywood Reporter: In the wake of this year’s Eurovision win by cross-dresser Conchita Wurst, Russia’s defense ministry is running a children and youth song contest, billed as “an alternative to bearded Eurovision,” …

According to local church leaders, killer floods in Serbia and Montenegro are the result of God’s anger with Conchita Wurst’s win at Eurovision. The floods which devastated towns and cities in the Balkans, and killed at least 50 people, were a ‘punishment’ from God after drag artist Conchita Wurst won Eurovision 2014, the Patriarch and other senior figures of the …

Conchita Wurst met the chancellor of Austria yesterday. The BBC reports that his party is looking to take advantage of her popularity to advance same-sex marriage. Bearded drag queen Conchita Wurst has given her first public concert since her Eurovision victory this month, performing in Vienna on Sunday. She was greeted by thousands of fans, including gay couples. Many waved …

Via Britain’s Express: The 25-year-old Eurovision winner – whose real name is Tom Neuwirth – made her first ever UK television appearance on The Graham Norton Show this week, and revealed that Elton John had left flowers in his dressing room at the BBC studios. Speaking of the card which he found with the bouquet, Conchita said: “The card read, …

Moscow authorities have banned a parade that would have honored Eurovision winner Conchita Wurst. Although homosexuality was decriminalized in Russia in 1990s, animosity toward gays remains strong in Russia. The county last year passed a law banning the dissemination to minors of so-called “gay propaganda” and routinely rejects applications to hold gay rights demonstrations. Alexei Maiorov, head of Moscow’s security …

“The ROC [Russian Orthodox Church] categorically opposes bearded men in dresses!” – Popular Russian blogger Rustem Agadamov, reacting to the church’s denouncement of Eurovision winner Conchita Wurst. Vladimir Legoyda, the chairman of the ROC, described Wurst’s win as a “sign of the world’s moral decline” and “part of the aggressive assertion of Western cultural norms.” He told Interfax: “The process …

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Communist Party MP Valerii Rishkin is so upset about Conchita Wurst, he is calling for Russia to pull out of Eurovision and stage its own contest. “The results of the latest Eurovision were the last straw,” he said. “We must leave this contest immediately, it is high time that we stop tolerating this madness. Each year Russia spends EUR 40 …

Arkansas, Michael Sam, Eurovision. The Associated Press reports on our big weekend. It was an eventful weekend: A gay football player kissed his boyfriend on national TV after being drafted by the NFL; gay marriage arrived in the Bible Belt; a bearded transvestite won one of the biggest TV song competitions in the world. All indications of a civilization on …

Covers and parodies are pouring onto YouTube following Conchita Wurst’s win at Eurovision on Saturday. I especially enjoyed this sign language rendition. The drama! 

Source. (Tipped by JMG readers Mike and Brian)

Conchita Wurst’s winning Eurovision entry is #1 today on Russia’s iTunes chart. The track is from the official Eurovision album released yesterday after the contest. At #4 on Russia’s chart is the original version of Rise Like A Phoenix, which was released last month. Russia’s own Eurovision entry is at #8.

Worth watching. (Via JMG reader Henry)

VIDEO: Conchita emerges from the jetway at 1:00.

“There’s no limit to our outrage. It’s the end of Europe. It has turned wild. They don’t have men and women any more. They have ‘it’.  Fifty years ago the Soviet army occupied Austria. We made a mistake in freeing Austria. We should have stayed.” – Former Duma vice chairman Vladimir Zhirinovsky, reacting to the Eurovision win of Conchita Wurst. …