Terminal 3.... The Eurovision Blog

List of participants updated for 27th Jan..... Albania - Olta Boka - Zemren e lame peng Andorra - Gisela - Casanova Armenia - Sirusho Harutyunyan - (song title not yet known) Belarus - Ruslan Alehno - Hasta la vista Bosnia & Herzegovina - Elvir Lakovic Laka - Pokusaj Cyprus - Evdokia Kadi - Femme Fatale Czech Republic - Tereza Kerndlová - Have some fun Israel - Boaz Mauda - (song title not yet known) Malta - Morena - Vodka Montenegro - Stefan Filipović - (song title not yet known) Netherlands - Hind - (song title not yet known) Switzerland - Paolo Meneguzzi - Era Stupendo Turkey - Mor Ve Otesi - (song title not yet known) Ukraine - Ani Lorak - (song title not yet known) (New entrants in red )

What with Malta and Czech Republic chossing 2 absolutely fabulicious songs (and is it me but does Tereza Kerndlova have a look of Jennifer Lopez to her) and the 3rd Semi Finals in Norway and Lithuania and the Bulgarian semi final this weekend has turned inot everythin a Eurovision fan would love. But to top it off we still have Belgium with their 1st Quarter Final and I send my good luck and best wishes to Femme Fatale with the song "Deceadence" and then Montenegro choose their singer tonight whilst the song will be chosen through an internal selection. My goodness it does seem to be the year of "disco-europop" this year. I wonder what the other selections have in store for us Eurovision fans. But to keep you going here are the Maltese and Czech songs. MALTA:- CZECH REPUBLIC:-

List of participants updated for 26th Jan..... Albania - Olta Boka - Zemren e lame peng Andorra - Gisela - Casanova Armenia - Sirusho Harutyunyan - (song title not yet known) Belarus - Ruslan Alehno - Hasta la vista Bosnia & Herzegovina - Elvir Lakovic Laka - Pokusaj Cyprus - Evdokia Kadi - Femme Fatale Czech Republic - Tereza Kerndlová - Have some fun Israel - Boaz Mauda - (song title not yet known) Malta - Morena - Vodka Netherlands - Hind - (song title not yet known) Switzerland - Paolo Meneguzzi - Era Stupendo Turkey - Mor Ve Otesi - (song title not yet known) Ukraine - Ani Lorak - (song title not yet known) (New entrants in red )

Ruslan Alenho with his song "Hasta La Vista". Will he do as well as Koldun in Helsinki? I am not sure!!! The song itself is very "Europop" and seems to be following a trend at the moment amongst those that have chosen to have this type of music rather than following in the footsteps of last years winner. Will Belarus go through to the final with this song on May 24th? I am not sure I suppose it depends who else is in the semi final with them and which nation the former Soviet States decide to vote for this year. All things considered Good Luck to Belarus in Belgrade!

With Norway, Denmark and Lithuania all hosting their second semi finals and with Iceland going to the Semi Final stages of their competition things are starting to hot up. But the biggest news of the weekend is of course what song will Belarus send to Belgrade as their follow up to Koldun's "Work Your Magic" which gave them their highest finish to date in their 4 Eurovision attempts. Belarus choose their participant on Monday 21 January and it will make them the 10th country to have decided.

Today saw the new revamped Eurovision website opened. I visited there earlier and I have to say that I am impressed with the site! It has a very good look and the content seems to be improving year upon year. One thing that the EBU can be commended for is the amount of effort they have put into improving the official website of the contest. Add the fact that they are now helping to stream some of the national finals, I can only see the website getting better and better! Well done EBU! Give yourselves a pat on the back!!!!!! It's well worth visiting, so if you're interested, click here to visit.....

After objections, the organisers of the national selection procedure in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia have removed the six commissioned songs that were due to take part in the 2008 final. It appears that due to the contest having been advertised as an "open" contest, there were objections to the six entries having been commissioned by the organisers and only submitted songs will now compete for the FYROM place in ESC2008. The final is due to take place on 23rd February in Skopje. I wonder if the commissioned entries were better than the submitted ones! ;-) Anyway, it's good to hear that the organisers have taken action and stuck by their "open" contest!