Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

If you have been having an irresistable desire to lick Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät guys' backside this springtime, now you can. Finnish Post has released today a stamp in their honor (I'm still wondering what happened to the elegant rule of releasing stamps only of dead people?) The stamp is good for a first class mail...... The drawings of the band members in the sheet are made by Pertti himself while the stamp is designed by Ari Lakaniemi and Susanna Rumpu, based on a photo taken by Pekka Elomaa.....

Austrian post office is one of the official partners of Eurovision song contest 2015 in Vienna and they join in the fun, too. Obviosuly releasing some stamps but also with the stamps come a 180 page history book of the contest (in German and in English). A lot of photos from the six decades, the big wins and losses, hits and flops, stars and scandals.... and the songs! They are all there. The limited edition affair with stamps is available from April 20 from here . 

The Finnish post has reached the 1990's in their series of stamps featuring popular artists. The stanps are published on September 3, 2012 and the criteria for choosing these six artists is that their career and popularity is still strong besides them being top sellers of the 1990's. Among them we have two Eurovision veterans, Jari Sillanpää and Laura Voutilainen, OGAE Second chance winner Anna Eriksson, the best selling female singer of the 1990's Kaija Koo and two ever popular bands, The Agents and Yölintu. The stamps simply feature their best seller album sleeves.

The Finnish post will release a sheet of stamps in September 2012 celebration the popular music of the 1990's. The chosen artists are Eurovision veterans Jari Sillanpää and Laura Voutilainen, the most sold female artists Kaija Koo and Anna Eriksson and two bands, Agents and Yölintu. The criteria to pick these artists was simple: their popularity has sruvived not only the 1990's but also the 2000's and is staying strong well into 2010's. .