All that matter is that Hera won so that makes for several happy gays

Oh did we mention you actually can’t tell the difference between the recorded and live version, she is that good!

The voting sequence at the Eurovision Song Contest has thrown up a couple of funny situations throughout the years…

Nice to hear Gay Byrne in 1967; “I thought we were going to be left out!” Fionnuala Sweeney mistakeningly giving the Netherland’s douze points to Niamh Kavanagh in 1993 is another Irish highlight!

Tonight the Icelandic vote in their 3rd and final heat, and we insist that they vote for Hera. If not we may just have to invade to change their selection rules.

On a day when Frank has highlighted the complete lack of fabulousness in Finland this year let’s remember some vintage schlager from the Finns.

The preview video to Cat Cat’s Bye Bye Baby was certainly intriguing, featuring pirouetting male models, Thelma and Louise style capers in a sports car, the frozen north, an eerie hotel lobby and a schlagertastic tune, infectiously catchy chorus line and one hell of a key change. My ten year old self desperately wanted a replica sports-car complete with CAT licence plate.

After tonight’s semi-final we now know the 10 finalists in this years Euroviisut. So will Finland produce a winner? I don’t think so, the only real contender seems to be Amadues, who won their version of Dancing with the star “Tango King”.

The theme of this years acts seems to be dress up those crazy crazy Finns To be honest it’s a very poor showing from Finland that doesn’t leave us with the expectation that they will do any better than just outside 12th place in the semis. Recently Warner Music in Finland said that they didn’t want any of their artists taking part as they did not like the  direction that Euroviisut was taking and the fact that it seems to kill their artists careers. As Warner Music is the largest of its kind in Finland by far this leaves their selection rather limited in terms of talented acts.

Amadeus – Anastacia

So the Germans are trying another formula, lets hope it works out better this time around. It will be a series of 8 shows going from February 2nd to March 12th which is the grand finale.

About 4.500 people went to the castings of Unser Star für Oslo, the German preselection to determine the country’s representative at the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo. Out of those, 20 participants were selected to compete in the first two shows on 2nd and 9th February, to be aired on ProSieben. From each show, five singers will advance to the next round, where they have to participate in the three remaining elimination rounds, again aired on ProSieben:

And so we begin the epic journey that is Melodifestivalen. The biggest show in Sweden kicks off February 6th in Fjällräven Center, Örnsköldsvik.

1. Ola – Unstoppable

Swedish heart-throb Ola Svensson musical career began when he took part in Idol 2005 where he placed 8th, this landed him a album deal and since then has landed himself an impressive 5 number ones in the Swedish charts  “Rain“, “Natalie“, “S.O.S.“, “Feelgood“, “Sky’s The Limit” and his 2008 Melodifestivalen hit “Love In Stereo“, one of my personal favourites.

We’re going back in time for the Hit of the Day today with one of the best debut entrants ever.

The year is 1994 and Eurovision is back in Ireland for the second year in a row. Eurovision has opened up the former Iron Curtain and Hungary, Russia and Poland are all to debut on the Eurovision stage in the Point Theatre in Dublin. Oh and a little Irish song and dance number planned for the interval act called Riverdance is causing a bit of a stir too.

From the country that has brought us the Viking Dance, dancing police men and off key drag queens comes the hopefuls for Denmark this year.DR have received 562 submissions this year and they narrowed that down the 7 acts with 3 wildcards (invited by the broadcaster themselves). Amongst them include a Russian pop star, a previous winners grand-daughter, a dancing queen (well ok he was in the Danish Dancing with the Stars…) and everyone’s favourite Danish girl band Sukkerchok. YAY!!! Oh and did we mention that Ronan Keating is back again?

Several acts have been disqualified in the Spanish selection process. Karmele Marchante aka Popstar Queen, Chimo Bayo, Kejío and Juan Losada are officially out of the competition for allegedly breaching the rules of the official selection process.

From this moment, all 4 of them have been removed from the Spanish Eurovision website and therefore this has led to changes in the current top-10. Coral Segovia is now leading the list, followed by El Pezón Rojo and Samuel & Patricia.