Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

The silence around UMK 2015 is thicker than the November darkness in Finland. The rumors and number of those declaring their participation or not being selected are very few, almost non existing. YLE will announce the 12 chosen ones only in January while even the final date hasn't been yet confirmed, not where the final will take place.  The fans are hoping for Jannika B 's participation, based simply on the fact she announced she won't be doing any gigs from March 2015 for some time.... Wishtful thinking only? Time will tell....As all the other names mentioned below are totally unknown to common public she'd be the famous one here with some success and minor hits like Onnenpäivä , Hulluksi onnesta and Seuraavaan elämään .  Satu Kostiainen & The Travellers told the local media in September  they have sent a countryrock & blues song to the contest. Author Samuli Koivulahti wrote in his blog he has sent in two songs written with Paavo Virtanen and perform...

The voting has ended and tomorrow 6.45PM local time we will know the three qualifiers for the Euroviisut 2011 semifinals from the open internet selection. There is no favourite this year and the various polls give very different restuls. YLE announced a couple of days ago the Top-5 is (in no particular order) Chorale, Father McKenzie, Joel Främling, Sara Sayed and Saara Aalto. In my blog Tony Green won with 12 votes, followed by Chorale, Cardiant and Blackbird 8 each, and Saara Aalto completes the Top-5 with six votes. But if we look at the results of viisukuppila.fi and escstats.fi things get tricky.  Tony Green wins by the Finnish voters (78 voters) and comes... last by the foreigners (16 voters). Chorale comes 2nd by Finns, 6th by foreigners. Father McKenzie is quite agreed on coming 3rd by Finns and winning by foreigners. Paul Oxley comes 4th by Finns but only third last by foreigners. Blackbird is 5th by Finns, second by foreigners so they're doing fine. Saara Aalto is only 9t...

The Finnish fans in viisukuppila.fi have been voting for their favourites in the Euroviisut internet selection and after 50 votes Tony Green is in the lead followed by Chorale, Father McKenzie, Paul Oxley and Christa Renwall. You can see the full list here . Maybe it is good to keep in mind the general public voting didn't wuite agree with the fans last year, so... And if you can't bother to listen them all here's a recap .