Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

John Egan's review of the songs of Eurovision 2010 in Oslo continues. Read about him and his thoughts about the Big4 and Norway here . This time he digs into the songs in the Semi-final One : Although a few participants have dropped out over the last couple of years (hopefully 50/50 jury and televoting in the semi-finals will bring some back), there’s still a queue for the Eurovision. As in previous years we’ll have two semi-finals; this time with 19 songs in each. Ten from each advance to join the give pre-qualified finalists. Overall semi-final one looks like a somewhat easier one: there are probably a dozen songs with a chance of qualifying. Moldova Run away (English) Sunstroke Project & Olia Tira If you follow the national finals at all you’ll recognize our Olia’s name—but not her look. She’s a great singer, who’s previously sung lovely songs for lovely girls. And never quite got the ticket for the big show…until now. Here she’s teamed up with one of those great Eastern...

With great pleasure I introduce you a new reviewer John Egan! He has written about the Eurovision for esctoday.com and The Advocate. He lives in Vancouver Canada, and feels a special responsibility to recruit as many Eurovision kweens™ as possible via his legendary annual ESC Final pot luck brunch extravaganza .    ESC 2010 Review part 1 – the “Big 5” While the obvious thing to do would be to start with semi-final one and go in chronological order…that’s rather boring (and overdone). So let’s start with the five songs already qualified for the final: four which have ostensibly bought-and-paid for their spots (the “Big Four”: France, Germany, Spain and the UK), and last year’s winner, Norway. Spain – Algo pequenito – Daniel Diges Daniel’s background is musical theatre to a certain extent; it shows in his consistent, solid performances of this retro-schlager song. Don’t like it: too circus music-like, too many “wo wo wo”s, nothing remarkable or memorable. There’s also ...