Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Once again some new sounds from Eurovision stars or wannabes of the past... Anouk is back with a new song. The of It's a new day video is dedicated to those who led the way and she potrays those women from Jeanne D'Arc to Princess Diana to Frida Kahlo and many many more. Simple but effective! Bonnie Tyler released a new album earlier this year and is currently touring Europe again. Hold on is the lead single of Between the Earth and the Stars, her 17th studio album. Les Fatals Picards have released a new album  Espèces menacées this year and this  Sucer des cailloux is already a second single off it. They may have lost their Eurovision lead singer Ivan Callot ages ago but not their goofy craziness. If you miss Ivan check his current band Les Rois d la Suède ... Felix Sandman keeps his solo career going strong despite bromancing with Benjamin Ingrosso. Something right is second single off his future album. 

Bosnia-Herzegovina selected internally one of the best songs of the season, Dino Merlin's Love in rewind . But in Austria they did have a national selection and pretty good it was, too, to mark country's welcome return to Eurovision. Nadine Beiler's The secret is love charmed many and sailed to the final and we were all happy for them. Another good choice might have been Paris, Paris by Klimmstein ft. Joe Sumner. It may have been labelled as novelty act but it is a fun song, a bit like L'amour à la Francaise in Helsinki 2007. And the fact Sting's son Joe Sumner was doing most of the singing would have created a media buzz. Besides, they have one of the best videos of the season!

France has been selecting internally the past three years with three very different entries; Sebastien Tellier , Patricia Kaas and Jessy Matador . Each of them surely made themselves noted and La Kaas even scored the best placing for France in nearly ten years (8th) and Matador made it #1 in charts. But the rumour is France is going back to national final. The last one selected that way was Les Fatals Picards with L'amour à la française for Helsinki 2007. The other French national finals have produced rarely anything worth mentioning so maybe it is better stick to internally selecting someone big or original? On the other hand if they manage to attract good songs and artists because of Matador's chart success...? Well, let's see what they do ...

Oh, look! Mr Karaoke is there!

It was at least as much as fun as the real thing. Many artists took the stage when their song was played and we just danced along!

It was a great party. Good food, enough drinks. Most of the artists present. Biggest mess was created by the alien from space alias Verka. (S)he practically walked in a crowd of few meters packed around her with flashing lights. And Mama taking care all went smoothly, of course.