Terminal 3.... The Eurovision Blog

Which means next stop Belgrade!!!.............YIPPEE Tonight saw the very last National Final of the 2008 Eurovision Season with the Swedish Melodifestivalen and no suprises to the winning song. Charlotte Pirelli gave a truly fabulous performance with her song "Hero" which won the jury vote and came second with the public vote beating Sanna and her song "Empty Room" into 2nd place. San Marino also chose their song this week making them the 42nd country to choose and I have to say I am disappointed with their entry and cannot personally see it qualifying to the final. If San Marino doesn't qualify will this be then of a potential Italian revival and re-entry in 2009...........I hope not!! So lets see......... do I have a personal favourite this year? The answer to that question is yes! Iceland is my favourite and I think it is about time that this little island in the North Atlantic won this contest. Over the years they have sent many fantastic entries but o...

Well it has been a very eventful National Final season and I have to say that for me personally I have been very disappointed with some of the songs chosen. Only 2 of the songs that I have liked have actually qualified to represent their country - Euroband from Iceland and No Angels from Germany. No Michelle Gayle from UK and No Beauty Queens from Serbia and Carola was knocked out of Melodifestival and The Tinkerbells wont be representing Norway. Mind you I have to say that I do like Jelena Tomasevic and her song Oro but am not sure it will give Serbia a second win in a row. Maria Haukaas Storeng from Norway should qualify to the final with Hold on Be Strong. The 2 songs that I did not think I would like but actually love are Vania Fernandes and her song Senhora Do Mar and also the Belgian song which is sung by Ishtar and is called O Julissi Na Jalini and once again is sung in an imaginary language - hopefully both of these songs will be heard again on the 24th May in the Eurovision f...

List of participants updated for 6th March 2008..... Albania - Olta Boka - Zemren e lame peng Andorra - Gisela - Casanova Armenia - Sirusho Harutyunyan - (song title not yet known) Azerbaijan - Elnur Gusseinov - Day After Day Belarus - Ruslan Alehno - Hasta la vista Bosnia & Herzegovina - Elvir Lakovic Laka - Pokusaj Bulgaria - Deep Zone & Balthazar - DJ, take me away Croatia - Kraljevi Ulice - Romanca Cyprus - Evdokia Kadi - Femme Fatale Czech Republic - Tereza Kerndlová - Have some fun Denmark - Simon Mathew - All night long Estonia - Kreisiraadio - Leto Svet Finland - Teräsbetoni - Missä miehet ratsastaa FYROM - Tamara feat. Vrcak & Adrian Gaxha - Vo imeto ljubovta Georgia - Diana Gurtskaya - Peace Will Come Germany - No Angels - Disappear Greece - Kalomoira - Secret Combination Hungary - Csézy - Szívverés Iceland - Euroband - This is my life Ireland - Dustin the Turkey - Irlande Douze Points Israel - Boaz Mauda - Kailu kan Latvia - Pirates of the Sea - Wolves of the ...

List of participants updated for 4th March 2008..... Albania - Olta Boka - Zemren e lame peng Andorra - Gisela - Casanova Armenia - Sirusho Harutyunyan - (song title not yet known) Azerbaijan - Elnur Gusseinov - Day After Day Belarus - Ruslan Alehno - Hasta la vista Bosnia & Herzegovina - Elvir Lakovic Laka - Pokusaj Bulgaria - Deep Zone & Balthazar - DJ, take me away Croatia - Kraljevi Ulice - Romanca Cyprus - Evdokia Kadi - Femme Fatale Czech Republic - Tereza Kerndlová - Have some fun Denmark - Simon Mathew - All night long Estonia - Kreisiraadio - Leto Svet Finland - Teräsbetoni - Missä miehet ratsastaa FYROM - Tamara feat. Vrcak & Adrian Gaxha - Vo imeto ljubovta Georgia - Diana Gurtskaya - Peace Will Come Greece - Kalomoira - Secret Combination Hungary - Csézy - Szívverés Iceland - Euroband - This is my life Ireland - Dustin the Turkey - Irlande Douze Points Israel - Boaz Mauda - Kailu kan Latvia - Pirates of the Sea - Wolves of the Sea Lithuania - Jeronimas Milius...

List of participants updated for 3rd March 2008..... Albania - Olta Boka - Zemren e lame peng Andorra - Gisela - Casanova Armenia - Sirusho Harutyunyan - (song title not yet known) Azerbaijan - Elnur Gusseinov - Day After Day Belarus - Ruslan Alehno - Hasta la vista Bosnia & Herzegovina - Elvir Lakovic Laka - Pokusaj Bulgaria - Deep Zone & Balthazar - DJ, take me away Croatia - Kraljevi Ulice - Romanca Cyprus - Evdokia Kadi - Femme Fatale Czech Republic - Tereza Kerndlová - Have some fun Denmark - Simon Mathew - All night long Estonia - Kreisiraadio - Leto Svet Finland - Teräsbetoni - Missä miehet ratsastaa FYROM - Tamara feat. Vrcak & Adrian Gaxha - Vo imeto ljubovta Georgia - Diana Gurtskaya - Peace Will Come Greece - Kalomoira - Secret Combination Hungary - Csézy - Szívverés Iceland - Euroband - This is my life Ireland - Dustin the Turkey - Irlande Douze Points Israel - Boaz Mauda - Kailu kan Latvia - Pirates of the Sea - Wolves of the Sea Lithuania - Jeronimas Milius ...

And the main news for me tonight is that Andy Abrahams has been chosen to represent the United Kingdom in Belgrade..........I was shocked initially to say the least, but in retrospect I think that he has a song that could do very well for us. At least its original and he wrote it himself. Latvia, Finland and Georgia also chose their representatives tonight and well what a mish mash of music..........gimmick from Latvia, Heavy Metal from Finland....again, but they do it so well and a ballad from Georgia. Personally, Im suprised there are not more ballads this year following last years Serbian win, but seriously thinking about it I think the ballads will get lost amongst the wide selection of songs already chosen.

Things guaranteed to happen in the Eurovision year..... 1. Deadlines for songs 2. National finals 3. Finals 4. The "we woz robbed" claims from countries who believed they should have won when their song was crap. 5. After the "we woz robbed" claims, comes the we would have won if it hadn't been for the eastern European block voting claims. However, there is one other annual event on the Eurovision calender, which never fails to appear.... 6. THE PLAGIARISM CLAIMS Now there are a number of classes to the plagiarism camps..... a). The "my favourite song woz robbed" camp - These are people who so strongly follow a song that the only way they can rationalise that their song didn't qualify is to claim "wrong-doings" by the winning song. I visited a website today and was totally amazed by one person's comment. In his claim of wrong-doing, he stated that one judge had given a song 11 points in the semi-final and only 7 in the final. So w...