our winners are going to italy after all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


good news, also to make trophy handover ceremony no more any awkward

so far amazing at the pre-parties are

Poland, Australia, Malta, Norway, Serbia, Albania, Armenia



disappointing are: Austria (LOL), Montenegro (strong low notes but disgustingly bad high notes), Czech Republic (earpain on those high notes), Ireland (Brooke is lovely but the whole thing comes across as very amateurishly performed, and not always the best vocals)



meh: North Macedonia (good vocals but nothingness of a song, i feel nothing with Circles)



Belgium mixed, sometimes good, sometimes a bit mediocre but he is going through extra vocal training, song is not my cup of tea though the whole Bond/R&B fusion

now only Madrid pre-party left as for pre-party season

am so excited for next month :dance: :dance:


countries i root for

in semi 1 ofc Netherlands, but also Slovenia and Moldova the most and i have to admit Greece is growing kinda on me, Amanda has a nice voice very Birdy very London Grammar-ish


in semi 2 my 110% support is for Malta (shame i cannot vote for our Queen) but Emma Muscat is a STAR with even more potential to become more internationally famous after this contest no matter what, she is so the right performer for this kind of uplifting feel good music, song might be basic but she lifts this up to another level of greatness with her amazing live performing qualities, she can do better than some expect her to and i fully believe in her either, also self-acceptance and self love is very important, and don't judge a book by its cover is sooooo what i stand for as well - i mean she might be a pretty girl from incredibly wealthy family but despite all of that she can feel pain as well, i love her for having worked hard herself to where she is now as an artist and a professional pianist (passion for playing piano since the age of 5 can you imagine, and delivering awesome chopin piano covers at age of just 15)


and that chorus ''take it or leave it, i am what i am'' so many truths there


everyone is perfect who they are for themselves, i also believe in a utopian world with lots of love, and everyone being appreciated for who they are in their own unique lovely ways, and a world without hate and war

3 weeks till ESC :love: :love:

first two house party performance episodes, next friday will have the last episode 3



very nice they still do this :love: very amazing performances and also nice to hear other work too from some of the contestants of this year

Malta's Emma Muscat (from Palazzo Paraiso a historical building in malta) with her 2020 song Sangria (which samples K3 Tele-Romeo) very nice italian summer bop, nice acoustic take of that behind her piano

Intelligent Music Project of Bulgaria, with another past work of theirs, Every Time


and Croatia's Mia Dimsic with a past work song in croatian, contrast to her entry guilty pleasure



UK's Sam Ryder also acoustic from York Hall, a venue from his hometown

https://wiwibloggs.com/2022/04/23/se...iewers/271769/

Semi 1 interval acts confirmed

Diodato (Italy's 2020 entry before that edition was cancelled due to covid)


DJ Dardust, Benny Benassi and Sophie & The Giants for the ''Dance of Beauty''


opening act with drone laser choreography and laser displays

what the stage looks like and how this design works exactly

Sophie and the Giants are like a huge name, amid lockdown times their song with purple disco machine ''hypnotized'' was massively popular

Benny Benassi umm well who does not know his hits ''satisfaction'' ''cinema'' and his remixes for ''california dreaming'' and also his remix for italy's 2019 entry Soldi by Mahmood




for UK viewers this year semi finals are on BBC3 instead of BBC4, and UK votes in semi final 2

first rehearsals for semi 1 will begin in two days from now



and we got another interval act confirmation, Il Volo are back (Italy 2015 third place)

and they will perform in second semi final while we wait for the results

https://eurovision.tv/story/il-volo-second-semi-final


https://eurovision.tv/story/samya-eurovision-backstage

Samya will again do her backstage content like last year in Rotterdam




today second wave of ticket sales

https://eurovision.tv/story/eurovisi...t-tickets-2022

https://eurovision.tv/event/turin-2022/first-semi-final

https://eurovision.tv/event/turin-20...ond-semi-final


AQ's
https://eurovision.tv/event/turin-2022/grand-final


profile, info pages with galleries and more background in these links or in this wikipedia link - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovi...g_Contest_2022

two other british acts in this years contest besides Sam, but as non-participants


Sophie and the Giants for semi 1 dance of beauty interval, and of course one of our 3 hosts, Mika (well known from hits like Big Girls You Are Beautiful, We Are Golden, Kick Ass, Happy Ending, Relax Take it Easy) and he will apparently also premiere a new song in this contest what is among rumours

current top 10 odds to win, as of April 28th 2022, 2 days pre-rehearsals

odds to qualify

semi 1
semi 2
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https://eurovisionworld.com/odds/eurovision


returning artists for this year are
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https://wiwibloggs.com/2022/04/28/eu...m-game/271971/

semi final 2 opening act known: focus on italian gestures and tribute to Just Dance rhythm game

tomorrow last of pre-party's, actually intended for April 23rd but postponed one week later to April 30th

Adriatic Party

https://eurovoix.com/2022/04/26/croa...preparty-2022/

https://eurovoix.com/2022/04/29/euro...-inside-arena/

face masks are mandatory inside the arena


:clap1: :clap1: good decision




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tonight episode 3 of 3 from house party 2022

among whats in store tonight

Ukraine Kalush Orchestra
Czech Republic We Are Domi
Iceland Systur
Albania Ronela Hajati
Belgium Jeremie Makiese
more from Portugal's MARO

and several other surprises

https://img.rtvcdn.si/_up/upload/202...9/65983901.jpg
Slovenia's LPS had a 11 hour long bus drive to Turin, instead of travelling by plane

wow

AJ Odudu is the UK spokesperson @Parmnion your queen having that honour :clap1:

Did I hear right that we won the jury vote!?! :omgno:

It's a not an official win but its one of the bigger pre event votes they do

Wait what?

The UK has won the Eurojury and finished second overall after the online vote was included, last year it predicted the top 3 jury votes correctly

i myself think Iceland, Portugal could be the dark horses for this year


also hope Finland will do well, because i am a stan for The Rasmus, for Lauri especially, sexy and likeable rock dad



and Czech Republic hopefully doing well, i love Dominika, she's so charismatic and i love she is kinda following in her dad's footsteps into the PalaOlimpico venue where he won a bronze medal for Czechs at the 2006 winter games at ice hockey :flutter:

https://eurovision.tv/live-blog-saturday-30-april

live blog for day 1 of first rehearsals, first half of semi 1

albania: pink hair, and accompanied by 4 bare-chested male dancers


not Ronela turning it into a Britney tribute act :laugh3: