Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Czech Republic's semi internal selection has delivered the winner and it's band Lake Malawi with their Friend of a friend . Public would have preferred Jakub Ondra, but Lake Malawi was the runner up and being joint first in the jury vote with Barbora Mochova emerged as the winner. They now have a hard task to continue Mikolas Josef's excellent 6th placing last year....  The band was formed 2013 of Albert Černý (lead vocal, guitar), Jeroným Šubrt (bass and keys) and Antonín Hrabal (drums). Pavel Palát (guitars) left the band after the debut album in 2017 and they continue as a trio. 

Czech Republic is using last year's method for choosing their Eurovision 2019 entry. They have hard time to follow up with last year's success when Mikolas Josef's Lie to me became a sort of an phenomenom. It's not easy. The chosen artists seem all good singers, but the songs are a bit anonymous lacking identity that would make them memorable in any way. Most of them sound like non finalists come May. Jakub Ondra's Space Sushi sounds like a perfect follow up to Mikolas, but then again... is it trying a bit too much? And does he have the stage presence and star quality Mikolas had? The voting is on eurovision.tv and also international jury will have its say before we know who gets selected.  Hana Barbara -  Poslední slova tobě  *** Tomáš Boček - Don't know why  *** Andrea Holá - Give me a hint  ** Pam Rabbit - Easy to believe  ** Lake Malawi feat. Albert Černý - Friend of a friend  ** Barbora Mochowa - True colors  ** Jakub On...