Austria Not Going To Moscow

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Its been 42 years now since Austria lifted the Eurovision crown with the song "Merci Cherie" which was sung by Udo Jurgens and now it would seem that ORF the Austrian Broadcaster will be making it 43 years as they have announced that they will not be sending a song to Moscow in 2009.

Austria have not been a regular attendant over the past couple of years and even when they have been there they have not worried the judges too much even if they have sent a couple of corkers. In my opinion "Y'Asi" which was in the 2005 Contest sung by Global Kryner was one of the most original songs in the contest and also one of the best vocals and should have qualified and it was this lack of qualification with this song that made the Austrians decide not to compete in Athens. A bad result in Helsinki then made the Austrians again withdraw from Belgrade with a statement "that the voting needed to be looked at and changed dramatically". Even with this change to the Eurovision and there now being 2 semi finals the Austrian TV Broadcaster has once again decided that a trip to Eurovision at this stage will not happen because not enough has been done to stop the bloc/diaspora voting.

I loved Global Kryner in 2005 so here it is:-

Comments

Schlager Queen said…
yes i agree i definately was drawn to this in 2005 and hoped it would get through. Pity Austria wont be there in May:(
29 July 2008 at 13:54
eurovicious said…
I've seen Global Kryner live five times, they're absolutely brilliant. Sadly, sexy Sebastian (the yodeller) has now left the band...

Cool blog!
4 October 2008 at 00:02
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