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ESC 2015 IN VIENNA - DAY 6: ICELAND

All is good in Eurovision bubble, Miss Hera Björk is in the building. And in the backing singer's formation under the northern lights. And Selma is there, too, babysitting the whole lot. Otherwise the Icelandic staging and performance is pretty much the same. Maria dances around a bit with little steps in her pink tutu and her vocals are all over the place at times. Not much else to say. This is many people's favorite to qualify but I wouldn't be so sure. It's kinda unwhelming and insignificant addition to the line up to put it frankly. I wouldn't miss this in the final. I wouldn't even remember it existed to be honest. She's pretty little fairy and adorable but it may just not be enough this time. Shame, Iceland has so often had something good to offer.... 

ESC 2015 IN VIENNA: THE NORDIC PARTY IN VIDEOS AND PHOTOS

The Nordic Party took place tonight in Vienna and the entrants from Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Finland were present along with Estonia. My flying reporter Robert was present. Here are a couple of videos: Måns Zelmerlöw doing Heroes and Mørland & Scarlett doing Monster like me . Also Iceland and Denmark performed, Finland didn't and everyone was happy for that. Instead Estonia did. Here are some pics:

ESC 2015 IN VIENNA - DAY 4: ICELANDIC NORTHERN LIGHTS

Iceland has a strange mix of pink fairy barefoot with green painted feet and Northern Lights in the backdrop. Both are beautiful separatelt but mixing them together? Hmm... not quite sure, but who knows? I have a trouble with this song. I liked it when it won even though it wasn't my favourite in Iceland. Then I grew tired of it very quickly and the fondness has not emerged again no matter what. Still, this is quite popular with the polls and fans. Anyways, it seems the most interesting thins seems to be Hera Björk's absense. No worries, she's due to be in Vienna tomorrow after a little visit to hospital that delayed her arrival. Can mighty Hera continue her string of 100% qualification? Maybe.... 

ESC 2015: REMIXES FROM ICELAND, UK, CYPRUS, SERBIA, ISRAEL, LATVIA

As always some Eurovision entries have been remixed to get the growds go wild in EuroClub and here are some of them - what do you think? Better than original? I think sometimes they add to the song and make even the original sound more interesting, sometimes they are pretty useless - even if always a nice addition anyways. Out of these I like particularly Serbia and Israel, and the Cypriot one made me like the original even more.....

ESC 2015 ICELAND: FRIðRIK DÓR TO VIENNA AFTER ALL?

Friðrik Dór Jónsson may have lost to Maria Olafs(dóttir) in the Icelandic final but it seems he gets to go to Vienna 2015 Eurovision after all. Namely as a backing singer. Now that wouldn't be anything new for Iceland as several singers have done that in the past, sometimes being backing singers, sometimes lead singers.... the circle goes round and round.... This time the reason is both songs were written and produced by  Pálmi Ragnar Ásgeirsson, Ásgeir Orri Ásgeirsson and Sæþór Kristjánsson so it would all be in the family. And Friðrik would get good practise for future headliner in Eurovision.  Maria Olafs won the Icelandic final last Saturday with Unbroken  while  Friðrik finished second with Once again .