Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

The Swiss selection moves ahead. The 18 songs and artists have been chosen in various ways. The next step is the live audition infront of a jury on December 7, 2014 where the 18 become six this way: 3 of the German speaking SRF entries will make it, 2 from the French speaking RTS and one of the Italian speaking RSI. These six will battle it out in the national final on January 31, 2015 in Kreuzlingen. Who are your favorites? SRF selected acts (listen HERE ) Arbresha   –   Same stars Bubble Beatz feat. Sandra Wild   –   Run Thierry Condor   –   Open heart surgery Dahï   –   Destiny Simon Hafner   –   There was a yesterday Andy McSean   –   Hey now San Dii   –   iMagination Timebelle   –   Singing about love Tiziana   –   Only human RTS selected candidates (listen HERE ) Alenko  –  Vu d’en haut Anach Cuan   –   Hurdy gurdy girls Celia   – ...

Swiss RTS or the French speaking broadcaster has chosen its six - mostly non-French - songs for the audition round next month that will join the three Italian songs by RSI and the nine German SRF ones that will be revealed later this week.  You can listen to these six here .  I will comment the songs once the full line up is ready..... Alenko – Vu d’en haut Anach Cuan – Hurdy gurdy girls Celia – Letter to myself Licia Chery – Fly Mélanie René – Time to shine Shana P. – Kevlar heart

Switzerland is a complicated country with four languages, all cantons and cows in the alps. So their Eurovision selection is also one of the most complicated ones as usual.  Three different language tv-stations having their own selections (where's the fourth btw? Isn't it time for another one like this ?) Anyways, the German language SRF has its about 200 songs here . The voting there starts next Monday. The French speaking RTS has shortlisted 26 songs from submitted entries (something I would suggest to SRF as well before putting them online as about 90% of them are pure crap!). Now a special jury will first cut them to 12 and then to six.  These six will go battle against the nine entries chosen by SRF and the three chosen by the Italian speaking RSI, that have not been revealed yet. December 7, 2014 there will be live audition with all these selected songs (9+6+3) and a jury will choose six of them for the national final on January 31, 2015. Complicated? M...

Italian Swiss have already chosen their two songs for the final, and shortly the German Swiss made public their nine songs that made it through via online voting and jury voting, and now French Swiss revealed their internal selection qualifiers, the lucky three. Unfortunately they don't have a winner among them, even if one of them is rather good, nice and catchy. All that but not a winner.The other two are rather harmless efforts. Oh the good one? Carrousel! Listen all three songs here .  Carrousel - J'avais rendez-vous Nicolas Fraissinet - Lève-toi Nill Klemm - On my own