Well after a night out with some friends recapping on old Eurovisions, well 1985 to be honest we decided to watch the videos for the Finnish entrants in the Finnish National Finals for Eurovision 2009 and we decided unanimously that Waldo's People have got our vote. The song I think is perfect for a more modern Eurovision and following the songs from Macedonia, Iceland and Bulgaria in 2008 then I think Finland could stand a good chance with this as their entry.
Hello all, first off an apology! The blog has been dormant for far too long. I'm hoping to start writing regular posts even throughout the ESC off season (is there an off season?!) If you have any suggestions for what you'd like to see covered in the blog, please leave a comment or contact me. After seeing Portugal winning in 2017, I was hoping that a trend of voting on the quality of a song would emerge and we would start seeing some really good songs winning Eurovision. Well, that didn't last very long did it?! At the end of the day, the public voted in their masses for Netta, I can't help but think Eurovision took a step backwards when she won. What is more worrying for me is that some really good songs and good quality singers didn't get rated well by so-called expert juries. I understand that they still have to vote for songs they like, but surely the juries should be considering quality and structures of songs, quality of voice etc. w...
So, following on from the running order review yesterday, here is how Paul and I think it will go... In no particular order, Paul sees the following as qualifying..... 1. Iceland, 2. Greece, 3. Romania, 4. Israel, 5. Cyprus, 6. Denmark, 7. Russia, 8. Ireland, 9. Belgium and 10. Latvia As for me, here are my qualifiers... 1. Iceland, 2. Greece, 3. Albania, 4. Romania, 5. Cyprus, 6. Belgium, 7. Russia, 8. Moldova, 9. Ireland and 10. Denmark. (I also think that Finland and Hungary could run some of the above close.) So, for the Terminal 3 team, our joint qualifiers are.... Iceland, Greece, Romania, Cyprus, Denmark, Russia, Ireland and Belgium. We then disagree on the chances of Israel, Latvia, Moldova and Albania. Agree? Disagree? Tell us. Keep visiting for our semi-final 2 review.
I really do not understand why the BBC are still entering the Eurovision when they are showing such contempt for the contest by making such poor decisions! At a time when we could be using the contest to promote the UK music scene, they dig up such a has-been in Englebert Humperdinck!!!! So after tonight's BBC decision, here are my decisions..... 1. GO JEDWARD!!!! This year I will be supporting a fellow Celt country! 2. Got to buy an Irish tricolour and put the union jack back in the cupboard. Right, I'm off to bed hoping that I wake up in the morning and it's all been a bad dream!
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