In the third of three semi-finals in Finland three more acts qualified to the final of the UMK competition. Six acts competed for the place in the final –
Televoting decided that Angelo De Nile, Järjestyshäiriö and Solju will make it to the final to take place on 28 February.
Source: www.eurovision.tv
After several weeks of selection shows Lithuania have finally decided on the winning combination to send to Vienna. They have chosen a duet between Monika Linkytė and Vaidas Baumila. Together they will sing the chosen song This Time.
The international and national jury and televoting decided tonight’s result. The three finalists performed songs that they chose themselves –
The writer of This Time, as well as many fans, liked the idea of Monika and Vaidas performing as a duet.
Then Mia and Monika & Vaidas (as a duet) performed This Time.
The interval act included the Swiss Eurovision representative, Mélanie René, performing her song Time To Shine.
So it will be Monika Linkytė and Vaidas Baumila who will fly the Lithuanian flag in Austria with This Time.
Source: www.eurovision.tv; lrt.lt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MMSy7BgE7Y
The winner of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest, Emmelie de Forest, has released a new song and video with the band Fahrenhaidt. The song is called Wildfire. Emmelie won the Eurovision in 2013 with Only Teardrops.
Fahrenheidt are one of the acts in the 2015 Germany selection Unser Für Österreich.
Wildfire is taken from the new album by Fahrenheidt The Book Of Nature. You can see the video for Wildfire below.
Source: www.esccovers.com
The host nation for the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest, Austria, kicked off their campaign last night with a special show to find six acts for the final. 16 acts competed with covers or their own original songs.
The six acts that will be in the Austrian national final chosen by an expert jury are –
There will be two more shows where the six acts will face different challenges before we see who is chosen for Austria in 2015.
Source: www.eurovision.tv
Ira Losco represented Malta at the 2002 Eurovision Song Contest in Tallinn with her song 7th Wonder and she finished in second position that year.
Now Ira is back with her new single from her The Fire album. It is called Dead Or Alive. The promotional video was recorded in Manchester and Morecambe in England. The video is by Videoink and the music is produced by Howard Keith at Jagged House Studios.
There was much speculation in 2014 that Ira Losco would be back in the Malta Eurosong. That did not happen this time but Ira has not ruled out trying again for Eurovision in the future.
You can see the video for Dead Or Alive below.
Source: Times of Malta; www.esccovers.com
Litesound rocked the Eurovision stage for Belarus in 2012 with We Are The Heroes. Their lively stage show and impressive sound was liked by many fans around Europe and the world.
Now Litesound have joined with Brothers Zapashny for a new project. It is for the unique Russian Circus run by Edgard and Askold Zapashny who have a rich history with the circus dynasty lasting over 100 years. Litesound have made a brand new video clip for their new song UFO. It will be used with the circus project. It features a spectacular story with a flight of the UFO and meeting amazing creatures with performances by the best acts from the Big Russian Moscow Circus. The acts include the Titchenkovy Sisters who play alien girls over 2 metres high.
UFO is composed by the brothers, Dimitry and Vladimir Karakiny, and they also wrote the video. The song is set to be a big hit in Russia and Belarus and other territories.
The circus show has already played to 10,000 people at Minsk Arena in Belarus to rave reviews.
Source: www.esccovers.com
Nikki Kavanagh is one of the five participants in the 2015 Ireland Eurosong. She is hoping a contemporary and anthemic song, Memories, will get the votes to take her to Vienna. She will face stiff competition of course. So, we will see.
Memories was composed by Lee Anna James, Elena Morosanu, Simon Gribbe, Johnny Sanchez and Dimitri Stassos. Nikki was part of the Irish Eurovision team in 2010 when Niamh Kavanagh sang It’s For You. She also narrowly missed out when Jedward won the Irish selection in 2011.
You can hear Memories below.
Source: rte.ie; www.esccovers.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ies9w16h7Vo
1981 was the year Bucks Fizz won the Eurovision Song Contest with Making Your Mind Up for the United Kingdom. They went on to have two further number one hits in the UK – Land Of Make Believe and My Camera Never Lies as well as many more hits locally and internationally.
Three of the orginal members Cheryl Baker, Jay Aston and Mike Nolan are together now and touring with Bobby McVey (former member of Sweet Dreams ESC UK 1983 – I’m Never Giving Up). However, they cannot use the name ‘Bucks Fizz’. That is now owned by former member Bobby G‘s wife Heidi Manton. There has a been a continuous legal battle over the name for many years. Bobby G and Heidi tour as their own Bucks Fizz band.
It is probably due to the legal problems that the either of the bands have not been invited to the Eurovision Song Contest 60th birthday celebrations.
Cheryl, Jay, Mike and Bobby McVey now tour as Cheryl, Mike & Jay formerly of Bucks Fizz with Bobby McVey. The band are working on a single for summer release.
Source: mirror.co.uk
The last semi-final of the Latvian Supernova competition took place yesterday. Four acts qualified for the final on 22 February.
The four acts that made it were –
Source: www.eurovision.tv
The second semi-final of the Finnish Eurovision selection, UMK, took place yesterday. Six acts competed and three made it to final.
The six acts and songs were –
Televoting decided what three acts would make it to the final. They were Shava, Opera Skaala and Jouni Aslak.
The third and last semi-final will take place on 21 February with the final one week later on 28 February.
Source: www.eurovision.tv