Eurovision 2023 in the UK

I would love to go too, hopefully hannechalk and I can make it happen

For the exposure and attention it gives around the the word it really should be an impressive city and arena it's held in. I imagine the powers that be will want to show they aren't London focused and so they won't give it to London but they really should because it's impressive and culturally known plus has impressive venues like the o2. There are many cities I'd really not want to represent us on a world stage and have images of beamed around the world to be quite honest.

Eurovision doesn't always go to capitals these days, especially where a capital has previously held the contest. Turin, Rotterdam, Malmö, Dusseldorf all in the last decade. London's done it four times so I'm pretty sure they'll go somewhere new, Glasgow is a good bet after they did such a good job of COP26; Manchester has an advantage because the BBC Eurovision team are now based in Salford; Cardiff has a shout because it's never been in Wales and the Principality Stadium is available (although the EBU don't like stadium venues and Cardiff doesn't have an airport with a lot of flights). Any of the three (and most of the other candidates) will do a brilliant job and showcase the UK.

I'm sure it's not that hard to believe.  What I would find more unbelievable is if you genuinely thought all our cities were fantastic and stunning and you would be proud to showcase them to the rest of the world?    I thought not.

I agree, any of those three will do a brilliant job and would showcase the U.K. . Try telling that to @herefortheatre though.
Sadly I’d have issues with Glasgow, from a political view, due to recent disparaging comments about Eurovision and the U.K. from the city council’s leader . Otherwise a fine job would be done there too , in conjunction with the BBC.
I’d like to see Cardiff host if there was a suitable venue .

It won't be London for the reasons given. Eurovision host countries/cities do the full tourist brochure thing, and gloss over the rubbish bits of the cities and countries, so we don't need to worry about that as far as the tv experience is concerned, and it's not as if London doesn't have run down areas.

Part of me would love it to be in Glasgow, but Glasgow does have a lot of issues at the moment, and there were a lot of problems in the run up to and during COP26. If they've learned lessons (not just used it as a phrase to brush off criticism) then it could be OK. The council leader is an idiot, so it would depend a lot on whether she is needed to pull strings or whether it's down to the BBC. They'd need to fix public transport, or at least make arrangements so that there are temporary time-tables in place, and that requires political support. But it would be good for the BBC as the Hydro arena (as featured in the Netflix Eurovision drama) is very close to their Glasgow base.

Manchester would be good too. It's years since I've been to the Manchester Arena (pre-bombing), so I don't know if it's been modernised, but it was quite dated in style compared to the O2 or the Hydro, which is the only drawback I can think of.

On other forums, Birmingham has been suggested and actually it'd be ideal because it's well connected and has lots of facilities like the NEC to hold Eurovision.

I am amazed that Swindon is trying to bid for it ...

Not exactly an obvious option

Doh, completely crossed my mind! 

Birmingham is also about to host the Commonwealth Games. So another city should get a chance in the spotlight

Thinking about this a bit more, given that we'll just be surrogate hosts for Ukraine, perhaps there won't be as much showing off of the city as normal. It will be interesting to see what choices they make for the introduction videos.

The host city will benefit from a lot of visitors at the time, and it's inevitable that there will be coverage of things to do and see locally, but it's likely to be more low key than usual.