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Eurovision 2009: Hungary & Iceland
You hear that? In the distance? It sounds a bit like camp irony and a lot like objectively dreadful Europop. This means that the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest is less than a month away! No wonder there's such a flurry of excitement everywhere. For instance, it's just been announced that all the Eurovision entries are available to download from the official Eurovision website for 99 cents each. Obviously you could put your money to better use and buy some poison, but who are we to judge? Here's the Eurovision 2009 rundowns for Zoli Ádok from Hungary and Yohanna from Iceland...
You hear that? In the distance? It sounds a bit like camp irony and a lot like objectively dreadful Europop. This means that the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest is less than a month away! No wonder there's such a flurry of excitement everywhere. For instance, it's just been announced that all the Eurovision entries are available to download from the official Eurovision website for 99 cents each. Obviously you could put your money to better use and buy some poison, but who are we to judge? Here's the Eurovision 2009 rundowns for Zoli Ádok from Hungary and Yohanna from Iceland...
Eurovision 2009: Germany & Greece
Eurovision 2009 profiles! Let's go! Anyone? Oh, screw you, then. Don't forget that it's London's big Eurovision party at the Scala tonight - an even that we've never even been invited to despite writing about Eurovision for five years. Five solid years. We'll never get those years back, you know. They're gone. And what do we have to show for it? Huh? Nothing, that's what. Nothing at all. Oh, we're so alone. Anyway, here's the Eurovision 2009 rundown for Alex Swings, Oscar Sings from Germany and Sakis Rouvas from Greece...
Eurovision 2009 profiles! Let's go! Anyone? Oh, screw you, then. Don't forget that it's London's big Eurovision party at the Scala tonight - an even that we've never even been invited to despite writing about Eurovision for five years. Five solid years. We'll never get those years back, you know. They're gone. And what do we have to show for it? Huh? Nothing, that's what. Nothing at all. Oh, we're so alone. Anyway, here's the Eurovision 2009 rundown for Alex Swings, Oscar Sings from Germany and Sakis Rouvas from Greece...
Eurovision 2009: Finland AND France
Thanks to a mixture of Easter, Dancing On Ice and our utter, utter cluelessness when it comes to scheduling, we have a treat for you. That's right, we're going to be profiling two Eurovision 2009 entries per day from now on. Unless we've made another miscalculation. Which we suspect we have. Anyway, the point is that with double the Eurovision goodness every day, you'll be twice as happy. Or twice as morbidly depressed. You're welcome, readers! Here's the Eurovision rundown for Waldo's People from Finland and Patricia Kaas from France...
Thanks to a mixture of Easter, Dancing On Ice and our utter, utter cluelessness when it comes to scheduling, we have a treat for you. That's right, we're going to be profiling two Eurovision 2009 entries per day from now on. Unless we've made another miscalculation. Which we suspect we have. Anyway, the point is that with double the Eurovision goodness every day, you'll be twice as happy. Or twice as morbidly depressed. You're welcome, readers! Here's the Eurovision rundown for Waldo's People from Finland and Patricia Kaas from France...
Eurovision 2009: Urban Symphony, Estonia
Here it comes - another massive dollop of Eurovision 2009 information. We're so good to you. But before we get into any of that - do you live in London? Do you know where the Scala is? Good, because on Friday there's going to be a huge Eurovision preview party there, starring performers from Cyprus, Romania and Bulgaria. We suppose what we're trying to say is get out of London on Friday. Anyway, here's the Eurovision 2009 rundown for Urban Symphony from Estonia...
Here it comes - another massive dollop of Eurovision 2009 information. We're so good to you. But before we get into any of that - do you live in London? Do you know where the Scala is? Good, because on Friday there's going to be a huge Eurovision preview party there, starring performers from Cyprus, Romania and Bulgaria. We suppose what we're trying to say is get out of London on Friday. Anyway, here's the Eurovision 2009 rundown for Urban Symphony from Estonia...
Eurovision 2009: Niels Brinck, Denmark
Easter is all finished with, and yet here we are again with more of these Eurovision profiles. They're never going to stop. Get used to it. What was the big Eurovision news over Easter? There wasn't any. Or maybe there was, but we haven't been bothered to look. Which one is true? You'll never know. And it's a secret that we've vowed to take to the grave. Oh, alright, it's the second one. Happy now? Anyway, here's the Eurovision 2009 rundown for Niels Brinck from Denmark...
Easter is all finished with, and yet here we are again with more of these Eurovision profiles. They're never going to stop. Get used to it. What was the big Eurovision news over Easter? There wasn't any. Or maybe there was, but we haven't been bothered to look. Which one is true? You'll never know. And it's a secret that we've vowed to take to the grave. Oh, alright, it's the second one. Happy now? Anyway, here's the Eurovision 2009 rundown for Niels Brinck from Denmark...
Eurovision 2009: Gypsy.Cz, Czech Republic
Because of the truncated Easter week, this will be the last Eurovision profile until Tuesday. We assume those are gleeful whoops of sadness you're doing at the moment. Ready for your traditional daily Eurovision fact? Of course you are, so here goes - Only three women the orchestra at the Eurovision Song Contest. Nurit Nirsch conducted the Israeli entries of 1973 and 1978, Monica Dominique conducted the Swedish 1973 entry and Anita Kerr appeared in front of the orchestra for Switzerland in 1985. Write that down. We'll be doing a quiz after the contest. No we won't. Here's the Eurovision 2009 profile for Gypsy.cz, who'll be representing the Czech Republic...
Because of the truncated Easter week, this will be the last Eurovision profile until Tuesday. We assume those are gleeful whoops of sadness you're doing at the moment. Ready for your traditional daily Eurovision fact? Of course you are, so here goes - Only three women the orchestra at the Eurovision Song Contest. Nurit Nirsch conducted the Israeli entries of 1973 and 1978, Monica Dominique conducted the Swedish 1973 entry and Anita Kerr appeared in front of the orchestra for Switzerland in 1985. Write that down. We'll be doing a quiz after the contest. No we won't. Here's the Eurovision 2009 profile for Gypsy.cz, who'll be representing the Czech Republic...
Eurovision 2009 – Christina Metaxa, Cyprus
You can't deny that these Eurovision 2009 profiles aren't getting exciting - we even had bare boobs a couple of days ago, for crying out loud. But the best is yet to come. And when we say 'best' we mean 'majority'. Surely something good has to come up in the next month, right? Anything - a tune that doesn't make us want to shatter our skull into microscopic fragments would be a nice treat at the moment, to be honest. Oh, who are we kidding, that'll never happen. Here's the Eurovision 2009 rundown for Christina Metaxa from Cyprus...
You can't deny that these Eurovision 2009 profiles aren't getting exciting - we even had bare boobs a couple of days ago, for crying out loud. But the best is yet to come. And when we say 'best' we mean 'majority'. Surely something good has to come up in the next month, right? Anything - a tune that doesn't make us want to shatter our skull into microscopic fragments would be a nice treat at the moment, to be honest. Oh, who are we kidding, that'll never happen. Here's the Eurovision 2009 rundown for Christina Metaxa from Cyprus...
Eurovision 2009: Igor Cukrov and Andrea Šušnjara, Croatia
Here we go again, it's time for another thump of Eurovision 2009 profiles. We're so close to the Eurovision Song Contest now that we can give you actual news about the contest instead of filling this space up with meaningless facts and unimportant figures. So here's today's Eurovision news - the lighting for the contest has started to be built into the Olympiyski Indoor Arena. Whew, that's some news. We wonder if tomorrow's news will be able to top that? In the meantime, here's the Eurovision 2009 profile for Igor Cukrov and Andrea Šušnjara from Croatia...
Here we go again, it's time for another thump of Eurovision 2009 profiles. We're so close to the Eurovision Song Contest now that we can give you actual news about the contest instead of filling this space up with meaningless facts and unimportant figures. So here's today's Eurovision news - the lighting for the contest has started to be built into the Olympiyski Indoor Arena. Whew, that's some news. We wonder if tomorrow's news will be able to top that? In the meantime, here's the Eurovision 2009 profile for Igor Cukrov and Andrea Šušnjara from Croatia...
