Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Freddie got restyled Gabbamania continues with the new single and video coming up Barei celebrates September ... as does Edurne Anouk not so much Musiqq makes most of it as does Poli (Cheers!) The Swedish stars are onto something as is Edsilia - one jazzy lady! Tereza... well, do we wanna know? Vaclav's got a brother Can they challenge togerher Iron man Amir? Or Guy? Kristina looks pretty and ready to sing while Lena is doing some product placement Lucie got married.... .. as did Hanna but Ott's cat is having done of it. You're not going anywhere!

South of Europe is under the most intense heatwave in decades while the North is asking Waar is de zon? and searching for jumpers and wool socks. And the Eurovision artists just travel all around, for gigs and tours, or just holidays. Maja Keuc did Iceland, just proving the point it's cold up here! Francesco Gabbani gigged in Sicily and enjoyed some lava from Etna.  Talk about heat! Krista Siegfrids did Portugal, the hottest spot to be this summer..... ... as did Ryan Dolan..... ... and Dima Bilan and Sergey Lazarev. For video shooting. Ann Sophie chose Spain instead. Barei did Shanghai Cleo did New York and New Jersey Lena did NYC, too Kati Wolf did Uffizi in Florence... ... and Tamara G did ... err...Disney World, Paris.  Claudia did Amsterdam Pride....  ... while Polina and Slavko did Stockholm Pride Sebalter holidayed in Sardegna before summer gigs ... and Senhit did Greece after summer gigs Jamala ke...

Summer is here - well, in Finland in theory at least - and radios are filled with summer tunes.  Evelina is riding high in the Finnish charts with her Kylmii väreitä . This blogger gets cold shivers the way she rapes the Finnish pnonciation but maybe I'm just old? The song is catchy anyways.... Say yay, Barei is back. I don't need to be you flirts with the sounds of the moment and the video with the old Mylène Farmer ones.... Markus Riva enojys some  Южные ветра  aka Southern winds in his latest Russian offering while cooling off in the pool... Alvaro Soler is a certain summer hit provider and this summer's no exception. The Gong gong song in Spanish goes Yo contigo, tù conmigo from The Despicable Me 3.  (PS. Spain, just send Alvaro to Eurovision, ok?)

Francesco Gabbani will join a long list of other Eurovision artists in Madrid's Wold Pride celebrations starting this weekend until July 2.  Eurovision winners Loreen and Conchita are present, so are Slavko from this year's contest, Spanish entrants Ruth Lorenzo, Barei, Soraya, Rosa, Azucar Moreno, Mirela, LeKlein and Baccara, Kate Ryan, Suzy with Ivri Lider, Carlinhos Brown, Aliice, Norwood, Toby Corton, Roser, Ama Torroja, Nito, Jorge Gonzales, Rebeca, Nuria Fergò and Toby Corton. How come they forgot about Saara Aalto? ;-p

Spain opened its selection and 135 songs have been sent already for Objetivo Eurovisión. Some keep quiet, some like Brequette shout to every direction she's there (check her submitted entries below). While Ruth Lorenzo seems to have dropped the idea once she was not selected internally the other regular wannabes are at it: Jorge Gonzalez and Mirela . Azucar Moreno who provided the legendary 1990 performance seems to be game as well, as are Lorena Gomez and Maria Villalon . Same old, same old also among the songwriters from Ovi Jacobsen to Tony Sanchez Olsson and Barei. Yawn. The submission window closes in the end of this month and then 30 songs will be selected for the RTVE webste for people to vote. Three songs will be selected from that top-10 by a jury for another public vote in the final in February.

Barei was going all yay yay yay at the Eurovision Village

Big opening party tonight in Stockholm when Douwe Bob hosting the opening of his home away from home, a bar in Stockholm! Many other artists have been spotted, among them Spain's Barei and Finland's Sandhja along with Krista Siegfrids. They also had a live connection to YLE's live review show with Jaana Pelkonen and Cristal Snow among others. When Krista asked him to sell himself to the Finnish viewers in 1o seconds he said: "I'd rather use that for slowing down...." Zoe, Sergey Lazarev, Amir..... and Rykka, Serhat, Juri Pootsmaa, Francesca Michielin... the place to be tonight!   Say yay yay yay? Belle histoire? Hey Zoe, we dueted together, how about you? Looks like Douwe and Sandhja are having fun..... singing it away? Or slowing it down?