Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

The Spanish folk/heavy rock band Mägo de Oz wants to do Eurovision song contest bad. They have revealed they want to bring something new and fresh to Eurovision and shake up the Spanish bad record recently in it. Band's leader Txus de Fellatio confess they have been begging their label Warner to send them for years now.... After another failure with something typically Eurovision, Swedish written nonsense this year, maybe the Spanish broadcaster is ready to go for something for more risky that might pay off in the end?  Band's music has a Celtic vibe with the usage of violinist and flautist to enrich their sound. They have released 12 stuio albums since 1994 and have collected gold, diamond and platinum discs along the way. They would surely not go unnoticed, to the horror of Eurovision glitter bubble gum purists and indeed bring in something new and fresh like Lordi did almost ten years ago. And they could surely come up with a 3 minute cocktail of folk, heavy ...

When 20-year-old Axel Ehnström aka Paradise Oskar won the Finnish final of Eurovision he was a total nobody. He told himself that "nobody knew me. Now I don't know myself" after a week of media fuss caused by the victory. He had just 2-3 songs on his MySpace at the time and he was a pretty regular music student. Now he is an artist with a record deal with Warner Music Finland and the debut album will be released on May 4, 2011. He has written all the songs himself. The producers are  Leri Leskinen who also produced the final version of Da da dam , and Lasse Kurki by Warner. "We interested in Axel most of all as a songwriter. When we met I heard he's most inspired by brian Wilson and Jimmy Webb who are also my favourites. Knowing this is no wonder this young guy writes such great songs " says Kurki. The performance for Eurovision 2011 in Germany will be alike to the Finnish final one: just a guy with a guitar singing his song, no cabaret and dancing girls or ...