Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

The Marcel Bezencon awards were announced yesterday before the grand final of Eurovision 2013. And what do we have here? Same countries/persons as last year? Really? Press award for the best song (voted by the accreditated press and press on spot): Waterfall - Georgia Artistic award (voted by the commentators): Farid Mammadov - Azerbaijan Composer award (voted by the participating composers): Robin Stjernberg, Joy Deb, Linnea Deb and Joachim Harestad Haukaas for You - Sweden Last year the winners were Sabina Babayeva, Thomas G:son and Peter Boström and Loreen.  I may have had risen eyebrows here....

Have you checked the exclusive in depth interview we have done with the stars of the Second semifinal? All of them will also reveal who would they like to represent their country next year! The links are on the right hand side panel. Click away!

Today Blogilkar's Bicykling reporter Robert had a chat with Georgian Nodi Tatishvili and Sophie Gelovani and their very talkative spokesperson from Georgian TV. Who was first, the egg or the chicken? Or the duo or the song? Why Thomas Gson? Why not a Gerogian composer? Why he wrote a ballad? Did they get what they ordered? And will they mention even one Georgian name? Find out here: Thank you Nodi and Sophie for this interview. Since we are a Finnish website we don't know you two at all. Could you tell us a bit about yourselves? We are singers from Georgia and we both are singing since our childhood. We have a lot of experience on stage as we have been doing this since we were 5-6 years old. As grown ups we have been to different international contests, done TV-shows. Despite all the projects we were not so well known even in Georgia. Only the people within music industry knew us well. In 2009-2010 we participated in Georgian Pop Idol and we gained some fame. Sophie pa...

Georgia has presented its entry today, titled Waterfall sung by Sophie & Nodi and penned by Thomas G:son. And how is it? In short, a watered down version of Quedate conmigo (check the 2'15'' mark and Pastora some 5-10 second before). The singers are excellent though and surely will appeal to televoters if the song lacks all the emotion and passion Pastora managed to fill it....