LIVE REPORT: EUROVIISUT 2010

Jaana Pelkonen (ESC 2007 hostess) and Peltsi Peltola are hosting the show live from Tampere. It might be -22C outside but the fans are hot as usual inside the venue. Renewed show with new tricks and looks is in store for tonight. Televoting only will take three songs to the final on January 30. YLE jury will provide a wildcard to one of the drop outs of all three semifinals.

The show has just started. Jaana and Peltsi conduct the show from greenroom and after a very quick introduction to the rules off we go: the postcards! Funny ones with the (childhood) photos of the artist.

1. Amadeus - Anastacia

Amadeus is the first one on the triangle stage with three dancers and his sister Miritsa playing violin, another sister Gilda joins in later as a dancer, too. Vocally good, simple performance.

2. Nina Lassander - Cider hill

The cembalo introduction of the songs must have given the idea for this staging as it's very liaisons dangeroux... dresses, hairdos, coreography. Nina sings very well and so do the backing vocalists but I get the feeling all this staging for this song is a bit overdone. Less would have been more perhaps?

3. Bääbs - You don't know tomorrow

Bääbs is on stage next with backing singers Heidi and Juho and burlesque artist Mimi de Froufrou. She flirts and looks the part (unlike Nina before) and her shiny dress and tattoo get a share of the spotlight, too. Good reaction from the public!

4. Boys of the band - America (I think I love you)

BOB can count on a very good vocalist that lifts the average stadium rock song. They are dressed like a rock band bóf nice guys and studied pretty well the Bosnian performance in Moscow last year with girls in circus uniforms and flag waving.... They are also the only ones using pyros. Big applause.

5. Pentti Hietanen - Il mondo é qui

Family affair on stage now. Pentti has brought his wife and one daughter along with other backing singers. He wanders around the stage from one woman to another while performing this sugary sleeping pill.

Then Jaana shows us her singing skills with a bit of Kari Tapio's Valaise yö... maybe she shouldn't have.... recap, please! And after that some humour (not really) about the coming Norwegian hospitality and such... And the voting has finished! And then we get to see the 5 most embarassing moments in the Eurovision history from Dana International's falling down...

And the first finalist is.... Amadeus! And the second one is.... Pentti Hietanen! And the last one is... Nina Lassander!

This year the winner will also get a very nice looking award, Viisuavain (Eurovision key). A bit like the Sångfågel in Melodifestivalen :-)

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