One of the most anticipated finals of the Eurovision season, the Irish Eurosong 2008 was held tonight in the University Concert Hall, Limerick. Hosted by Ray D’Arcy, there were six songs to choose from. Providing comment on each were former Eurovision winners, Dana and Marija Serifovic and pop mogul, Louis Walsh. Donal Skehan – Double… Read more
This evening, Finland held the third and last semi-final. As before two songs would qualify for the final and the other two would have to try again in the second chance round. Once again, the show came from Tampere and was hosted by Jaana Pelkonen & Mikko Peltonen. Jenna – Sinua Varten. Jenna is known… Read more
Today, the BBC announced details of the show which will choose the song to represent the UK at this year’s contest in Belgrade. On Saturday 1st March, six acts will compete in three categories with one from each going through with a wildcard to the second show. The songs which go through will be decided… Read more
This evening, Finland held the second of their three semi-finals. Once again the hosts were Jaana Pelkonnen, host for the 2007 Eurovision, and Peltsi Peltola. As was the case with the first semi-final last week, two songs will go through to the final; the other two will have to hope for better luck in the… Read more
Between Friday 15th and Wednesday 20th February, there are many national semi-finals and finals to keep the likes of me busy. Here is a list of what you can look forward to over the next few days. You can find information about all of them by following the links below; Friday 15th – The Finns hold their… Read more
After choosing the first 5 finalists last week, this evening Latvia selected the final 5 songs to battle it out in the final on March 1st. It was not obvious which songs would go through and which would be eliminated. Aisha – You Really Got Me Going. A strong pop song to start the… Read more
Moldova will be represented this year by Geta Burlacu with ‘A Century of Love’, a jazz influenced song. The final placings were: 01. Geta Burlacu – A Century of Love 02. Olia Tira – Always Will Be 03. Alexa – We Are One 04. Galina Şcoda – Your Own Vision 05. Elena Dermidjean – Living… Read more
After 3 semi-finals and a second chance round, Norway was finally ready to choose its song for the 2008 contest. Eighteen songs were reduced to 6 for tonight’s final. Norway has an undeserved reputation among the wider public for producing a poor quality of song, but overall, the standard of the 3 semi-finals was high. … Read more
Tonight, YLE and Finland held their selection to find the song which they hope will continue their, albeit brief, revival in fortune. In all, there will be 3 semi-finals with 2 songs qualifying from each. The songs which don’t qualify will go into a ‘second chance’ round, from which 2 will qualify from the final.… Read more
After failing to qualify for the final since the semi-finals were introduced, Estonia have chosen what could be described as a ‘nonsense’ song to keep their hopes alive until the end of Eurovision week for the first time since 2003. Estonia’s show for choosing their song, the Eurolaul, was held on Saturday 2nd February. Hosted… Read more
Or will she? The Albanian Broadcaster, RTSH, have launched an investigation into the result of the 2007 Festivali I Kenges. Despite winning the Festivali by 10 points from ‘Jeta Kerkon Dashuri’ which was written by the team responsible for Albania’s debut in 2004, everything depends on the result of the investigation. RTSH decided to have… Read more
Bosnia have chosen the famous (in the Balkans anyway) singer Elvir Lakovic Laka to represent them in Belgrade. He will sing the song Pokusaj (Try) in the first semi-final on Tuesday 20th May. He was chosen from a shortlist of 31 entries by a panel of seven ‘experts’ in December. Not only will he perform the… Read more
Forget about vampires, Swiss hopes are alive! Switzerland were one of the first countries to reveal their plans for the 2008 contest when they announced in November that Paolo Meneguzzi would be their representative. They have now revealed the song. It’s called ‘Era Stupendo’ (It was Wonderful). As seems to happen every year now, there… Read more