Two countries gave me t-shirts – GEORGIA and RUSSIA.
As I do not collect t-shirts, they are available to two fans.
What you have to do is write to Marcus as marcus@esccovers.com and express an interest in one of them if you want them.
By next Wednesday we will pick the winners
The RUSSIAN t-shirt is a MEDIUM, the GEORGIAN t-shirt is a LARGE but to me the Russian one looks bigger.
Both are white with the faces of their singers, NINA and POLINA
We have been receiving quite a bit of information about some of the entrants this year. Check out our Press Release Section for information from Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Malta, Slovenia, Iceland and San Marino. Keep an eye on this section for more over the next few days.
Hopefully all 42 clubs will vote in the OGAE CLUB voting, but we will list each club’s winner. And it will be updates as more clubs reveal their voting
OGAE ALBANIA – ITALY
OGAE ARMENIA – ESTONIA
OGAE LUXEMBOURG -SWEDEN
OGAE SWITZERLAND – ITALY
OGAE ESTONIA – SWEDEN
OGAE RUSSIA – ITALY
OGAE DENMARK – SWEDEN
OGAE R O W – SWEDEN
OGAE POLAND – AZERBAIJAN
OGAE NORWAY – ITALY
OGAE LITHUANIA – NORWAY
OGAE SERBIA – SLOVENIA
OGAE MACEDONIA – ITALY
OGAE FRANCE – SWEDEN
OGAE ITALY – NORWAY
OGAE UNITED KINGDOM – SWEDEN
OGAE ROMANIA – ITALY
OGAE MONTENEGRO – SERBIA
OGAE MALTA – ITALY
OGAE ANDORRA – SWEDEN
OGAE SPAIN – ITALY
OGAE SWEDEN – ESTONIA
OGAE FINLAND – ITALY
OGAE GERMANY – ESTONIA
OGAE LATVIA – SWEDEN
OGAE SLOVAKIA – SWEDEN
OGAE BELGIUM – NORWAY
OGAE PORTUGAL – ITALY
We have received information letting us know that OUTtv has once again launched its online poll for its annual award. OUTtv is the gay lifestyle channel in Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany and Canada.
In this poll you can vote for your favourite song from among this year’s Eurovision contestants. The award is now in its 6th year. You can still vote for your favourite song until the 13th of May by going to OUTmusic Awards or their website OUTtv.
You simply go to the submission of your choice from all the songs provided and press “bekijken” (View), watch the video and cast your vote! The winner will be announced on Wednesday 20th May on the OUTtv show “Vienna Calling” and on the OUTtv website.
Previous Winners
The first AFRI VISIE song contest is in its final stages. last night the top 10 were announced which will battle it out in a live TV final this coming weekend. AFRI VISIE is based on the Eurovision song contest and the winner is the composer and not the performer.
The top 10 were announced in random order
01 – LANG PAD NA LATER (long road to later)
Composer -Anotnie de Jager, Performer – Laudo Liebenberg
(Both unknown to me)
02 – SING MY AAN DIE SLAAP (sing me to sleep)
Composers and performers – Carle van Deventer & Joe Foster
(Carle has written lyrics for euro songs before, among them one of Slovenia)
03 – REEN (rain)
Composer and performer – Gera Phielix
(Totally unknown)
04 – VERLANGEBAAN (desire road)
Composer and performer – Heidi van Wyk
(She is an OGAE ROW member and covered a song from Armenia before Qele qele)
05 – EK SWEET (I swear)
Composer – Herman Kleinhans, Performer – Twee
(Both are unknown but Twee means TWO so it is a duet)
06 – DIE IDEE WAT TEL (it is the idea that counts)
Composers – Hugo Ludik & Reynhardt Hugo, Performer – Adam
(The composers are 2 of the 3 members of the boy group ADAM who is quite popular and recently had a CD that went gold. Hugo’s brother Stefan is an OGAE ROW member who has covered Finland 2009)
07 – NA NA HEY (probably the same in English)
Composer and performer – Lokka Vox
(Totally unknown)
08 – IETS OM IN THE GLO (Something to believe in)
Composer – Mynhardt Smit, Performer – Len Muller
(Both are totally unknown)
09 – ALS OF NIKS (everything or nothing)
Composer – Stephan van Huyssteen, Performer – NRG
(Composer unknown but maybe he is one member of the group NRG who is quite popular. The brother of one member is Burgerd Botha who was part of Romanz who covered Sweden 2009 and in duet with Zita doing Croatia 1995 – both covers are on the 60th celebration compilations for Vienna)
10 – WIE IS JY (Who are you)
Composer – Willam Loots, Performer – Lee Scott
(Composer unknown but Lee is an OGAE ROW member with covers of Norway 2009, Iceland 2009, Malta 2009, Belgium 2010 and Ukraine 2008)
It is interesting to notice that the rehearsals start quite late each day – 12 midday. But it seems they have allowed each country a shorter rehearsal time than the 45 minutes or so we had in the past. Also there are just 20 minutes for meet and greet – let’s hope most fans will be able to meet and greet the artists. If they allow one minute per website or journalist, then the maximum they can have is 20.
We finally have information about the Vienna pickup packages. This is for members who selected the pickup delivery option.
Members now have the opportunity to check the status of their ticket packages via this link: oeticket.com
Look for this little symbol on the top right and click on it, then all you have to do is enter the e-mail address and order ID (confirmation number), and you’ll know whether the tickets have been printed/on their way/etc.
Ticket pickup opens on Monday 11 May 2015
…and closes on Saturday 23 May 2915
You can pick your tickets up from:
Oeticket Center
Museumsquartier
Halle E+G im Museumsquartier Foyer
Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Wien
The offices are open the following hours:
Monday – Saturday: 10.00 am – 13.00 pm & 14.00 pm – 19.00 pm
(The offices are closed for one hour for lunch)
Thursday 14 May is a public holiday so the offices won’t be open on that day.
Tickets have to be picked up personally, and passport and confirmation must be presented at the time of pickup. We gather ‘confirmation’ means the item you got when you booked.
Please make a note of these details.
Richard has been hard at work to give the website a new look on the home page, by grouping things together and re-arranging the page headings in more priority order.
We will also give the whole home page a new look – but that will happen after Vienna and we will also ask input from our visitors.
When the page was originally created, it was done just to have something to start with and now that we are up and running and with a lot of info on the website, we can start with a new look and experiment a little. I think we are the fastest growing website of the OGAE clubs and we could not have achieved this without the help of a lot of dedicated people. A big thank you for that.
Albania changed their song, ARMENIA has now changed the title of their song to
FACE THE SHADOW
I like the new title
Liam has supplied some interesting shots from the Swedish newspapers making their predictions for Melodifestivalen tonight.
