The weekends are starting to get busy with the Eurovision Song Contest national finals. We’ve got the results from this weekend, and what’s happening over the next seven days!
This Week’s Results
Finland’s first heat saw two acts qualify directly through to the final, the haunting tones of Mikael Saari, and the more pop sound of Diandra. Three acts will go the semi-final (essentially a second chance round) and the y are Iina Salin, Last Panda, and Rautakoura. And one act is sent home from last place. That would be Iiari Hamalainen.
The results from Norway have raised a few eyebrows with a ‘that’s not a normal Eurovision sound’ mash-up of Death metal and Opera winning the semi-final in the form of Gromth and Emil Solli-Tangen (yes, he’s Didrik’s younger brother). Also through are Vidar Busk and Datarock. Lone boy with a guitar on the stage Tom Hugo failed to proceed, much to the horror of many watching the stream.
Mystery Song Theatre 3000 continues in Azerbaijan, as we add the name of Leyla ‘no relation’ Aliyeva to the roster for the final.
A couple of song previews
A number of broadcaster have put their National Final songs officially online. Finland are pushing their songs through Spotify, while Austria, Iceland, Latvia, and Hungary, have streaming versions available from their websites. And of course the second a song airs somewhere, YouTube will be a few minutes behind.
Coming up this week…
- Azerbaijan continues with the fifth week of
MST3KMilli Secim Turu. - The second semi final of Finland’s UMK is on Thursday 24th January.
- Friday 25th will be the first semi final in Iceland’s Songva Keppnin, with fan favourites Yohanna and Mani Asgeirsson in the line-up.
- It gets busy on Saturday 26th, with three shows for you to juggle. It’s the second semi final in both Iceland and Norway, while Denmark holds the winner takes all nationa final of MGP in Herning.
Keep an eye out for Terry in Denmark!
Our Senior Interview is travelling again, as Terry Vision heads out to MGP with the rest of the ESC Insight team to keep out the way of Mrs Vision to see which Eurovision stars he can interview. We’ll let you know how he gets on ehre at ESC Insight next week!
Once Datarock’s lead started singing I was reminded of Damo Suzuki. Alas, a perfect opportunity for Apocalypse glory squandered.