Jedward Eurovision

Jedward in Australia

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 09:19:00 -0400

JEDWARD ARE IN AUSTRALIA…. Here’s what we’ve been able to find out about the boys Australian Schedule.

The Kyle and Jackie O Show

When…

Australia - Monday from 6am

UK - Sunday from 9pm

Listen here http://www.2dayfm.com.au/listen/

Official Website: http://www.2dayfm.com.au/shows/kyleandjackieo/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kyleandjackieo

Sunrise

When…

Australia - Tuesday from 6am

UK - Monday from 9pm

Watch here http://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunrise/video/-/watch/04296f3b-0c90-3821-9f64-327b6514ff2f/sunrise-live/

Official Website: http://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunrise/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/sunriseon7

Mornings with Dave and Sonia

When…

Australia - Tuesday from 9am

UK - Monday from midnight

I’ve not been able to find a link to watch Channel9 Online

Official Website: http://channelnine.ninemsn.com.au/mornings

Twitter: https://twitter.com/mornings9

The Bump Show

When…

Australia - Monday from 8pm

UK - Monday from 11am

Listen here http://www.2dayfm.com.au/listen/

Official Website: http://www.bumpshow.com.au/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/bumpshow

Nova with Smallzy

When…

Australia - TBC from 7pm

UK - TBC from 10am

Listen here http://www.novafm.com.au/station/nova969/player

Official Website: http://www.novafm.com.au/station/national/show/smallzys-surgery

Twitter: https://twitter.com/nova969

We will keep adding if we find out more about other shows and times etc… let us know if we’ve missed anything

EUROVISION 2013: The chosen songs so far...

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:51:00 -0500

Belarus

Chose on: ~~7th December 2012~~ 7th March 2013
Alyona Lanskaya - ~~Rhythm of Love~~ Solayoh

*”Rythym Of Love” was originally picked by the public in December but “Solayoh” has been internally picked by BRTV

Switzerland

Chose on: 15th December 2012
~~Heilsarmee~~ Tasaka - You & Me

*The group had to change their name as Heilsarmee was a part of the Salvation Army which broke EBU rules

Belgium

Chose on: 16th December 2012
Roberto Bellarosa - Love Kills

Lithuania

Chose on: 20th December 2012
Andrius Pojavis - Something

Albania

Chose on: 22nd December 2012
Bledar Sejko & Adrian Lulgjuraj - Identitet

Ukraine

Chose on: 23rd December 2012
Zlata Ognevich - Gravity

Denmark

Chose on: 24th January 2013
Emmelie De Forest - Only Teardrops

Iceland

Chose on: 2nd February 2013
Eyþór - Ég á líf

Malta

Chose on: 2nd February 2013
Gianluca Bezzina - Tomorrow

Norway

Chose on: 9th February 2013
Margaret Berger - I Feed You My Love

Finland

Chose on: 9th February 2013
Krista Segfrid - Marry Me

Slovenia

Revealed on: 14th February 2013
Hannah - Straight Into Love

Cyprus

Revealed on: 14th February 2013
Despina Olympiou - An Me Thimase

Germany

Chose on: 14th February 2013
Cascada - Glorious

Austria

Chose on: 15th February 2013
Natalia Kelly - Shine

Latvia

Chose on: 16th February 2013
PeR - Here We Go

Greece

Chose on: 18th February 2013
Koza Mostra Ft. Agathonas - Alcohol is Free

Ireland

Chose on: 22nd February 2013
Ryan Dolan - Only Love Survives

Russia

Revealed on: 24th February 2013
Dina Garipova - What If

Spain

Chose on: 26th February 2013
El Sueno De Morfeo - Contigo Hasta el Final

Georgia

Revealed on: 26th February 2013
Sophie and Nodi - Waterfall

Croatia

Revealed on: 26th February 2013
Klapa S Mora- Mižerja

Armenia

Chose on: 2nd March 2013
Gor Sujyan and The Dorians- Lonely Planet

Hungary

Chose on: 2nd March 2013
Bye Alex- Kedvesem

Estonia

Chose on: 2nd March 2013
Birgit Õigemeel- Et Uus Saaks Alguse

Bulgaria

Chose on: 3rd March 2013
Elitsa and Stoyan - ~~Kismet~~ Samo Shampioni

*On March 11th, BRT announced that the duo would sing Samo Shampioni (which came 2nd) instead

Serbia

Chose on: 3rd March 2013
Moje 3 - Ljubav je svuda

United Kingdom

Revealed on: 7th March 2013
Bonny Tyler - Believe In Me

Israel

Chose on: 7th March 2013
Moran Mazor - Rak Bishvilo

Sweden

Chose on: 9th March 2013
Robin Stjernberg - You

Romania

Chose on: 9th March 2013
Cezar - It’s My Life

The Netherlands

Revealed on: 11th March 2013
Anouk - Birds

France

Revealed on: 13th March 2013
Amandine Bourgeois - L’enfer et moi

Montenegro

Revealed on: 14th March 2013
Who See - Igranka

San Marino

Revealed on: 15th March 2013
Valentina Monetta - Crisalide

FYR Macedonia

Revealed on: 15th March 2013
Esma and Vlatko - Pred Da Se Razdeni

Moldova

Chose on: 16th March 2013
Aliona Moon - A Million

Italy

Revealed on: 18th March 2013
Marco Mengoni - L’essenziale

The BIG Jedward Fandom Survey

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 09:28:34 -0500

Welcome to our Jedward Fandom Survey. I thought I would do this for fun and I would love if EVERYONE would fill this in. It’s completely anonymous and will take about 10 minutes to fill out if you don’t rush it.

It just asks you for your favourite things Jedward related and I don’t think I’ve I missed anything out.

At the end I will do one mahoosive post discecting your answers into something I hope to be really interesting to read.

If any of the options don’t look familiar to you, I have the videos here:

Planet Jedward Bonus Tracks

Planet Jedward when it was released had two bonus tracks which wasn’t on the CD. The fans from abroad may not know these so here they are…

Walk This Way

We Will Rock You

Jedward Adverts:

Abrakebabra

Shake n Vac

Nintendo

Travel Supermarket

Three

Take the Survey Now!!!

Radio 1 Request Show: Dan & Phil Style

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:35:09 -0500

Okay, I’ll start off by saying fair play to Jameela Jamil. She played Jedward TWICE for us on the Radio 1 Request Show. Young Love and Luminous were both played on her show. However, she’s no longer in charge and Dan and Phil have taken over.

BBC Radio 1, Every Sunday at 7pm

The show is on right after the Official Music Charts so we reckon a lot of people listen but Dan & Phil are doing it differently.

Phil told us: “We don’t want to be exiled by people for playing Jedward if someone requests it, but don’t worry we have found a quite creative way to decide if we play Jedward and Bieber songs.. ‘FAN BATTLES’. A superfan representing each artist compete live on air and only the winner gets their song played! It’s going to be pretty funny.”

Fan Battles lol… They don’t know Jedward fans well do they? We could take Bieber fans down. We can do this!!!

Now, I doubt that they would cater for Jedward fans every week. People would tire of it. They may even be full of it and deny us a listen of Jedward every time we try but it’s always worth a go.

They also want people to create videos for songs so they can show it on a LIVE stream so that people can watch the show as well as listen. The main website for the show says it can be anything you want but I don’t know what the copyright situation would be. If you did a video of Jedward clips for example, I don’t know if they would allow it. I can’t see why not but it’s worth emailing the BBC to find out.

Links

The Dan & Phil Website

Video T&Cs

Ways to Request/Submit Video Links:

Twitter @BBCR1

Facebook

Will we try??? For the UK???

What is the best song from Young Love?

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:00:00 -0500

I asked you to pick your fave song from Young Love. Unfortunately Survey Monkey, I found out, only lets you have 100 responses without paying so I understand 100 people is only a small amount of the fandom.

Anyway, here are the results with the TOP 3 in Blue. Of course the winner was LUMINOUS. It was very close though.

Never Better was in the leads at first, then it stayed 2nd place until What’s Your Number AND Cool Heroes beat it over last minute.

There was only one vote between #2 and #3 and only 3 votes between #1 and #2.

Waterline only got one vote and I’m surprised A Girl Like You didn’t do as well as I thought.

Would the results be different if I did the poll again using another Poll site so more people could vote?

Jedeurovision Tumblr

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:46:50 -0500

A good number of people (361) follow our Tumblr and we hardly post from it.

What kind of things would you like to see so we can be more useful to you all?

REVEALED: The Jury and Public Results Split

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 09:36:00 -0400

Today, we finally learned how the votes for The Eurovision Song Contest were split. The EBU announced the points each country was given from the Jury and the Public televote - these were published on the official Eurovision website.

First, a recap of last year

When John and Edward performed “Lipstick” in Dusseldorf for the 2011 contest it was the Jury that preferred the duo to the public. The jury gave “Lipstick” 119 points where the Public gave it 101 points (okay, it wasn’t much difference).

So what about this year?

As we know, the twins and their song “Waterline” finished the contest in 19th place after receiving 46 points from the Public and Jury combined but it wasn’t known if the twins had gained more favour with the Public, or like last year… the Jury.

Turns out it was…. the public

Clicking here will lead you to the full list of scores but it’s a bit of a mess so I singled out Ireland’s votes here:

Basically, if you look at the table showing the Grand Final results… If, like 5 years ago it was only down to the public to decide then “Waterline” would have finished in 10th Place in the competition.

The Jury however, didn’t like it at all. If only their votes counted then the boys would have finished 25th out of 26 acts. Only the UK’s Englebert Humperdinck received less points from the jury.

Here’s some other interesting stuff the results revealed:

As expected, the Jury didn’t like Russia as much as the public did. However, they did get way more points from them than Ireland did. Personally, I think this proves just how bad Jury taste was.
Lithuania, Iceland and Norway were the only countries the Jury and Public agreed on.
Cyprus and Greece had two very similar songs with two very similar acts and performances. The Jury preferred Ivi Adamou where the public preferred Eleftheria.
The Jury and Public also agreed on the last placings in both Semi Finals where Slovakia and Austria finished.
France did apalling in the televote. No one voted for Anggun. Nil Points.

* I’d like to point out to you that in the list that I linked earlier, Ireland are down as being in 20th place. This is not true, they finished 19th. Iceland tied with them with 46pts but as Ireland received points from more countries, they placed higher. In that list they’ve put them in alphabetical order.

YOUNG LOVE by Jedward…. CD artwork (Front/Back)

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 07:35:08 -0400

YOUNG LOVE by Jedward…. CD artwork (Front/Back)

UNITED KINGDOM Chart Regulations

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 10:17:00 -0400

With YOUNG LOVE becoming available in the UNITED KINGDOM from midnight tonight (18th June), I thought it be best to make it clear what has to be done in order for Single sales to count. This is what I found…

To qualify for inclusion in the UK singles chart, a single must meet the following criteria:

It must be available on one or more eligible formats. Eligible formats are CD, DVD, vinyl, cassette, digital download, MiniDisc and flexi disc. [In this case, Digital Download]
All formats must contain the featured track or a version/remix of it. [No problem as only Young Love is available as the download]
Only three formats may be included in a single’s sales; sales in additional formats are disregarded when calculating a single’s chart position. The single must meet the minimum dealer price requirement (as of 2012, 40p for a digital audio track) [So basically, you can buy the single 3 times at most from each website]

The following is an excerpt from the PDF linked at the bottom:

Each format must have no more than four different tracks, although each song may appear in any number of different versions. [Again, no probs as only one track is available]

The following link will take you to a PDF with the rules of the UK Singles chart: Official Chart Company

In the UK there are 5 sites that count towards the singles charts:

Gifting

iTunes and 7digital allow gift buys. This means that you can buy the song for other people. If you buy the maximum three for yourself, all these will count towards the chart but the purchases you buy for other people you know will all count.

You can buy for you friend, Mum, Dad, Sister, Brother and even your teacher or boss lol. These will count towards the chart too.

We need this to sell well in the United Kingdom

Under Pressure made it to #2 on downloads alone and I’m sure we can do it again… Buy out everywhere.

VIDEO: Highlights - Jedward in Baku (Eurovision 2012)

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 07:35:36 -0400

HIGHLIGHTS: Jedward in Baku (Eurovision 2012) by @jadehill2001

This needs to have a caption… any one up for a challenge?

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 09:39:26 -0400

This needs to have a caption… any one up for a challenge?

Jedward Young Love QR Code for Posters Okay so if you plan on...

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 15:59:50 -0400

Jedward Young Love QR Code for Posters

Okay so if you plan on doing any fan parades, flashmobs or any other promo things you’ll no doubt be making posters too.

If you do then please stick this on there… Most smart phones have downloadable apps to scan this and when they do they will get the You Tube video of Young Love to watch. RESULT

You can copy and past the above picture onto your poster before printing it off. I made it pink as it goes with the colour scheme of the single.

However, if you want the colour to suit a different colour scheme you can make one using this website

http://www.smartytags.com/dashboard

jadehill2001: YOUNG LOVE The single from Jedward released...

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:03:12 -0400

jadehill2001:

YOUNG LOVE

The single from Jedward released WORLDWIDE 15th June

Taken from the album “Young Love” released:

22nd June (Ireland, Germany and Austria)

25th June (UK and Rest of Europe)

26th June (USA)

Jadehill2001: 5 reasons why you shouldn't feel bad about Eurovision

Tue, 29 May 2012 06:54:30 -0400

Jadehill2001: 5 reasons why you shouldn't feel bad about Eurovision:

jadehill2001:

There’s been so much drama about the twins not winning Eurovision this year and it seems people have forgotten that the twins career doesn’t rely on Eurovision Success. Here are 5 reasons fans shouldn’t feel bad about Eurovision:

1) 120 million people around Europe watched this show plus the…

EUROVISION 2012: The Results

Sun, 27 May 2012 06:57:07 -0400

Okay guys, Eurovision 2012 is over and it’s Sweden’s Loreen that emerged victorious after beating 41 other countries in Baku, Azerbaijan.

On a Jedward level it wasn’t their most successful but the guys did AMAZINGLY well by getting points from new countries that didn’t vote last year.

Here are the results (Jury and Public combined) that have been announced regarding the Semi Finals and the Grand Final. There are some shocks and some serious dissapointments:

Semi Final 1

1. Russia – 152 points
2. Albania – 146 points
3. Romania – 120 points
4. Greece – 116 points
5. Moldova – 100 points
6. Ireland – 92 points
7. Cyprus – 91 points
8. Iceland – 75 points
9. Denmark – 63 points
10. Hungary – 52 points
11. Swtizerland – 45 points
12. Finland – 41 points
13. Israel – 33 points
14. San Marino – 31 points
15. Montenegro – 20 points
16. Latvia – 17 points
17. Belgium – 16 points
18. Austria – 8 points

What’s interesting here is that Ireland fared better in this Semi than Lipstick did in their semi last year. They also beat Iceland who started off as one of the ESC favourites to win.

Disappointingly, Austria’s the Trackshittaz came last after receiving only 8 points. That’s 12 points less than Montenegro and 23 points less than San Marino, both of who were disliked by Eurovision Fans and punters.

Semi Final 2

1. Sweden – 181 points
2. Serbia – 159 points
3. Lithuania – 104 points
4. Estonia – 100 points
5. Turkey – 80 points
6. Bosnia & Herzegovina -77 points
7. Malta – 70 points
8. Ukraine – 64 points
9. FYR Macedonia – 53 points
10. Norway – 45 points
11. Bulgaria – 45 points
12. Croatia – 42 points
13. Portugal – 39 points
14. Georgia – 36 points
15. Netherlands – 35 points
16. Belarus – 35 points
17. Slovenia – 31 points
18. Slovakia – 22 points

There was a tie for the 10th place in Semi Final 2… Norway and Bulgaria both received 45 points meaning a tie breaker was needed. In cases like this, the country that received votes from more countries will go through, this meant Tooji won the right to go through.

Slovakia’s Max Jason Mai came last in this Semi Final, rock doesn’t tend to go down well in Eurovision, just like Rap music, both of which are very popular in today’s music industry.

A country by country breakdown of these results are still to be released as well as the Jury/Televote breakdown. We will keep you updated.

Grand Final

1. Sweden - 372 points
2. Russia - 259 points
3. Serbia - 214 points
4. Azerbaijan - 150 points
5. Albania - 146 points
6. Estonia - 120 points
7. Turkey - 112 points
8. Germany - 110 points
9. Italy - 101 points
10. Spain - 97 points
12. Romania - 71 points
13. FYR Macedonia - 71 points
14. Lithuania - 70 points
15. Ukraine - 65 points
16. Cyprus - 65 points
17. Greece - 64 points
18. Bosnia & Herzegovina - 55 points
19. Ireland - 46 points
20. Iceland - 46 points
21. Malta - 41 points
22. France - 21 points
23. Denmark - 21 points
24. Hungary - 19 points
25. UK - 12 points
26. Norway - 7 points

The Big 5 had a successful year this year wth 3 (Germany, Italy & Spain) finishing in the Top 10. However, after Blue’s success last year, the United Kingdom found itself back into the bottom five with Englebert Humperdinck finishing 25th out of 26. Only Norway stopped it coming last.

Iceland’s finishing position was one of the shocks of the night only coming 20th, tieing with Ireland who, because they received votes from more countries, got the higher position.

Jedward in ESC 2012

Waterline may not have done as good as Lipstick did last year but the twins did receive votes from more countries that we wouldn’t have believed. We have found the country by country breakdown of what points were awarded to Ireland in the Semi Final and Grand Final:

Semi Final

This is the most interesting set of results we ever saw… The following countries awarded points to Ireland in Semi One:

Austria - 8pts
Azerbaijan - 4pts
Belgium -7pts
Denmark - 2pts
Finland - 7pts
Greece - 3pts
Hungary - 6pts
Iceland - 10pts
Israel - 7pts
Latvia - 10pts
Montenegro - 1pt
San Marino - 12pts
Russia - 10pts
Spain - 5pts

Grand Final:

Azerbaijan - 1pt
Belarus - 1pt
Belgium - 4pts
Croatia - 3pts
Denmark - 4pts
Finland - 4pts
Iceland - 4pts
Latvia - 5pts
The Netherlands - 5pts
Sweden - 5pts
United Kingdom - 10pts

http://www.escchat.com/eurovision/songs/jedward-waterline.2012/

We are still to find out what the jury voted and what the public voted but we’ll let you know when we find out.

THEY DID IT

Wed, 23 May 2012 03:32:03 -0400

THEY DID IT

IT'S SEMI FINAL DAY!!!!!!

Tue, 22 May 2012 01:28:00 -0400

It’s finally here…. Today is the day Jedward will yet again take to the Eurovision Stage in Baku for YOUR votes.

Here’s a little something to tell you everything that has to be known about it…

Time

The Semi Final starts at the following times:

00:00 Local Time

21:00 CET

20:00 GMT

The show

18 acts will perform on the night to get votes from the public. John & Edward will finish the show, performing 18th after Moldova.

Where can you watch?

You will have to check your TV guide to see what channel will be showing the Semi Final.

You will have to note that if your country is NOT able to vote in the Semi Final, they may not be broadcasting. E.g. Spain will broadcast Semi Final 1 because they’re voting but they won’t be broadcasting Semi Final 2 on Thursday.

Albania have a day of mourning today and they may not broadcast this semi final.

If your country isn’t broadcasting the show you can still watch on the Eurovision Website HERE… It’s best you look here asap as you may need to install the Octoshape plugin.

Voting

Only the following countries may vote: Montenegro, Iceland, Greece, Latvia, Albania (if they do decide to broadcast), Romania, Switzerland, Belgium, Finland, Israel, San Marino, Cyprus, Denmark, Russia, Hungary, Austria, Moldova, Ireland (who can’t vote for Jedward), Azerbaijan, Italy and Spain.

The EBU (the shows organiser) find it only fair that only countries competing in the Semi Final have a say in who qualifies. However, there are six countries that don’t have to compete in the Semi Final stage. The big 5 (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and United Kingdom) and the host country (Azerbaijan). The EBU organise a draw (the same time when the Semi Final’s are allocated) and Spain, Italy and Azerbaijan were drawn for Semi Final 1. Germany, France and the UK vote in Semi Final 2.

Voting only opens once the last act, Jedward, perform and you can vote a maximum of TWENTY TIMES from each phone line you use. The voting window is about 15-20 minutes.

The Jury have already voted for the Semi Final so the televotes (public votes) will be automatically added to these. Jury/televoting is 50/50 by the way.

Note with Albania… If the broadcaster decide not to broadcast the show then the Albanian Jury have 100% say.

We do NOT know the phone charges or the phone numbers but it will be explained to you by your broadcasts commentator.

The results

Okay, we will not be told the voting scores nor will we find out what the jury’s gave compared to the public. They won’t announce these details until after the Grand Final.

The three hosts of the show will read out the ten qualifiers in random order after voting ends. That means 8 acts will be sent packing home.

The Press Conference

After we know the qualifiers of the Semi Final, the ten finalists have a press conference. In this, they will each pick a number out of a hat which will determine WHERE in the Grand Final they will perform. This takes part at:

02:15 local

00:15 CET

23:13 GMT

OGAE Planet Jedward

Fri, 18 May 2012 04:29:39 -0400

Okay, several months back I opened up a poll for you guys on PLANET JEDWARD to vote for your THREE favourite songs in this years Eurovision Song Contest 2012.

OGAE International is a network of fan clubs World Wide and each year they vote in Eurovision fashion and points are allocated. This is just for fun so here are the results of the (made up) OGAE Planet Jedward:

12pts IRELAND - Jedward, Waterline

10pts SWEDEN - Loreen, Euphoria

8pts DENMARK - Soluna Somay, Should’ve Known Better

7pts GERMANY - Roman Lob, Standing Still

6pts NORWAY - Tooji, Stay

5pts RUSSIA - Buranovskiye Baushki, Party For Everybody

4pts UNITED KINGDOM - Englebert Humperdinck, Love Will Set You Free

3pts AUSTRIA - Trackshittaz, Woki Mit Deim Popo

2pts CYPRUS - Ivi Adamou, La La Love

1pt ITALY - Nina Zilli, L’amore è Femmina

JEDWARD AND THE TRACKSHITTAZ IN BAKU escaustriaat: „Eurovision...

Wed, 16 May 2012 08:18:20 -0400

JEDWARD AND THE TRACKSHITTAZ IN BAKU

escaustriaat:

„Eurovision Song Contest“: Trackshittaz rocken Baku

After handover some gifts the meet and great with the Jedwards ended up in the pool. Lukas and Manuel had a model tractor and a swimsuit in traditional Austrian costume look for the twins.

Meet and Greet mit Jedwards endet im Hotelpool

Volles Programm für die Trackshittaz in Baku: Gestern, am 15. Mai 2012, erkundeten Lukas Plöchl und Manuel Hoffelner mit Hilfe des ortskundigen amerikanischen Rappers Tim Maknaut, der im Vorfeld des Song Contests als einer der beiden Caspian Dreamers mit seinem Baku-Song im Internet für Furore sorgte, das Nachtleben der aserbaidschanischen Hauptstadt. In der Szenebar Otto enterten sie schließlich spontan die Bühne und jammten mit einer lokalen Band ihren Song „Woki mit deim Popo“. Energiegeladen ging es heute, am 16. Mai, weiter: Beim Meet and Greet mit den Jedwards am Pool des gemeinsamen Hotels durfte der Trettraktor selbstverständlich nicht fehlen. Da kleine Geschenke, die Freundschaft bekanntlich beleben, überreichten die Trackshittaz den Zwillingen aus Irland einen Modeltraktor und eine Badehose im österreichischen Trachtenlook. Passend zum Geschenk und zum Song-Contest-Titel der Iren „Waterline“ endete das Treffen bei 30 Grad Außentemperatur für alle Beteiligten und den Traktor im kühlen Nass.

Trackshittaz: „Da haben sich vier Verrückte gefunden, es hat Spaß gemacht und gezeigt, dass es beim Song Contest nicht immer todernst zugehen muss. Wir haben den Jedwards die Lederhosen angezogen.“ Jedwards weiter: „Trackshittaz haben eine super Show, die ist sogar fast noch cooler als unsere. Wenn Lukas und Manuel auf die Bühne kommen, dann wird jeder mit dem Popo wackeln. You guys rock! Go team Austria!“

Beim Meet and Greet mit den Jedwards schaute auch die irische Song-Contest-Gewinnerin von 1992 Linda Martin vorbei. Linda Martin: „’Woki mit deim Popo’ is fun! Ich mag den Song und wünsche den Trackshittaz alles Gute für ihren großen Auftritt.“

Zufällig im Hotel anwesend war auch Soluna Samay, die dänische Song-Contest-Vertreterin: „Das gute an Eurovision ist die Vielfalt, und es gibt auch immer einige Party-Songs – also passt ‘Woki mit deim Popo’ hervorragend.“

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Rehearsals.... Day Two

Mon, 14 May 2012 11:22:53 -0400

Today was Day two of the first rehearsals for this years ESC acts. Today, the rest of the First Semi Final Rehearsed including our favourite boys, Jedward.

Today has been a very exciting day as there were no ballads rehearsed today. Nothing but up tempo, and sometimes cheesy (hello San Marino!) gold!!!

First up was…

Israel

Izabo will start off the second half of the first semi final with their song “Time”. It’ll be the band (4 members) with two dancers/backing singers. Something tells me the two “dancers” are stand in’s for the 1st rehearsal or maybe they just chose two very bad dancers.

The backdrop is amazing… It starts of very vibrant and the clock is very original for a song called “Time” right? LOL.

A good start to the day. This is one of my favourite songs this year,

San Marino

Valentina Monetta is up with “The Social Network Song” and as you would expect, this performance will be a fun one. Not many think much of the song but if you’re hearing it for the first time, it should stick in your mind.

The backdrop is pretty cool with the words “Uh” and “Oh” in speech bubbles and pretend pictures of people and she has the standard laptop prop that we’ve seen before in Amsterdam.

The song is her and five dancers doing a nice little dance. Eurovision is meant to be fun and this has to be the most fun song in the contest.

Cyprus

We haven’t seen Ivi Adamou sing “La La Love” live yet, until now. She sounds flat at parts but the screen detracts from that. It’s very Grecian so you know they’ll be getting 12pts from Greece this year.

She has four dancers with her who back her up song wise and a 5th guy in the shadows. I don’t understand why her mini stage is a pile of books though - confused.

This is sure to qualify I think.

Denmark

Soluna Samay is another fan favourite with high hopes of qualifying. Singing “Should’ve Known Better” with her 4 piece band and backing singer, she has a backdrop of the Sahara to go with one of her lyrics.

The set up is very similar to her National Final performance so there’s nothing much new to report. Her outfit is even the same.

Russia

What did you expect from the Buranovskiye Babushki? “Party for Everybody” looks very much like their National Final performance but they bake at the same time. Yes! They have a machine that bakes a pie which I guess will be zoomed in on when the TV shows it.

They’re dressed in their native attire and the backdrop is kind of disco ball-y but multi coloured. See for yourself.

Hungary

Compact Disco have the unfortunate luck of performing after Russia and they will sing “Sound of Our Hearts”. This has to be the most miserable ESC entrant of all time We’ve come across them twice and they never smile and they don’t smile during this performance either.

It’s the band alone and the backdrop is a lit up outline of various countries. It has a worldwide message you see. They are however, the first act to make the most out of the stage by going down the runways.

Austria

Ah Austria - My god I love these guys. The Trackshittaz look amazing singing “Woki Mit Deim Popo”. They have used pole dancers like in their national final and they’re rearing amazing green, glow in the dark dresses which really stand out.

Whereas they copy their NF using poles, they’re unable to have a blackout for safety reasons but I really think the lights will go down still on the stage. The dresses are glow in the dark as I said, and the fellas have fancy things on their jackets too.

Like Hungary, the pair make use of the runways by sliding down them and their background are rainbow coloured lights.

Moldova

Here’s Pasha Parfeny with “Lautar”. Moldova have a 100% success rate at the Semi Finals so he’s one to look out for. He’s accompanied by five girl dancers and his dance his pretty much the same as his National Final One. I don’t know what the hand movements are about.

The background is AMAZING - reminds me of the Lipstick one from Ireland last year. After this rehearsal, my estimations have gone way up. As much as I hate to say it, Pasha will make people forget about Austria.

Ireland

The one we’ve all been waiting for… It’s JEDWARD with their song “Waterline” and the performance is very, well, its wet as you’d expect.

The background is very realistic with flowing and dripping water and this year they have a prop with a water fountain that’s also a platform. It remains to be seen if they will get wet in there but we still need a surprise for the actual night.

Maybe their outfits will react to water in some way? I doubt they’re wearing their Semi Final outfits in this.

The backing singers sound much better than last year in my personal opinion. A very good final performance in the Semi Final. A great high.

Tomorrow will see the first rehearsal’s from Semi Final 2. We’ll see the performance from

Serbia
FYR Macedonia
Netherlands
Malta
Belarus
Portugal
Ukraine
Bulgaria