New Wave Festival 2007 (Day 3): Natalia Gordienko
[UPD]Kostas Martakis, winner of the Audience Choice Award
Kostas Martakis - photos
New Wave 2007: New Wave Festival 2007 (Day 3): Kostas Martakis
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Mihai Traistariu - "Say something" (songwritter Laurentiu Cazan)
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1-Mihai Traistariu (Romania) - 107 (video)
2- Natalia Gordienko (Moldova) - 105 (video)
3-Natalia Vinokurova (Russia) -103
4-Kostas Martakis (Greece) - 103 (video)
5-duo "Barcelona" - (Ukraine) - 101
6-Erglis (Latvia) -101
7- Rin' Go (Kazakhtan) - 100
8- Francisca Urio (Gemany) - 100
9- Chioma (SUA) - 100
10- Masha Novikova (Russia) - 98
11-Marina (Poland) - 97
12- Vasiliy Lazarovich (Ukraine) -96
13- Anastasia Kochetkova (Russia)- 96
14- Eleonora (Georgia) -96
15- Polina Smolova (Belarus) - 95
16 - Issa Samer (Czech Republic) - 92
17- Kate (Czech Republic) - 89
18- Alessandro(Italy) - 88
New Wave Festival 2007:Kostas Martakis
New Wave 2007: Live report from the third day
New Wave Festival 2007:(Day 2): Mihai Traistariu
source:oikotimes.com
On 21 July was held the first casting of lots in one of Latvian golf-clubs "Venturi" where the order of contestants' performances on the second day of the contest program was determined.
According to the rules of the casting of lots, every contestant had to hit a ball into a hole on the golf course.
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Oikotimes.com in collaboration with Eurovision Cyprus site will cover the event exclusively for the web so stay tuned
esctoday.com reports:
This year's Ukrainian Eurovision Song Contest representative may be suffering from deja vu this week, after reaching 2nd place in Finland for a second time this year!
After finishing behind Serbia's Marija Serifovic at the Eurovision Song Contest, the crazy charactrer from Ukraine has entered finland's music charts... at number 2!
Verka's Eurovision Song Contest entry, Dancing lasha tumbai was released last week and was pipped to the number one spot by local act Tea with their song Tytöt tykkää. T
The Eurovision Song Contest entry is proving a more commercially successful song than the competition winner, Marija Serifovic and her entry, Molitva.
read more here
sources:esctoday.com;yle.fi
related: Verka Serduchka is ready to hit French charts;
Verka hits Germany, Austria and Switzerland
Last year, Lordi, a Finnish group whose members costume themselves as literal monsters of rock, got exposure on a slew of cable-news channels after winning the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest — the de facto World Cup of tunesmithing, which has been around for more than half a century.
Not that all of the coverage was flattering. On MSNBC, for instance, Countdown host Keith Olbermann played the triumph as a joke during his defiantly daffy "Oddball" segment. Still, Olbermann did acknowledge that the "guy singing has got more talent in one rotting corpse finger than that Taylor what's-his-face has in his entire body."
The vocalist in question is Mr. Lordi, and he admits that the band's Eurovision odyssey was bizarre even by his standards. When the Lordi song "Hard Rock Hallelujah" (included on the Arockalypse CD) was chosen as Finland's official Eurovision entry, controversy erupted. Finnish leaders were asked to veto the selection, but according to Mr. Lordi, "They said there was nothing they could do [because] it's a fucking song contest!"
source:Denver Westword;photo:Solarfilms.inc
On 21 July was held the first casting of lots in one of Latvian golf-clubs "Venturi" where the order of contestants' performances on the second day of the contest program was determined.
According to the rules of the casting of lots, every contestant had to hit a ball into a hole on the golf course.
A ball with a number that signifies the index number of performance was hidden inside of each hole.
Alessandro from Italy began the game accompanied by a storm of applause by those watching the spectacular sight and hit the ball into a hole where number 7 was hidden.
The casting of lots marathon was afterwards continued by other contestants with incredible excitement: some of them could hit the ball into a hole only after striking seven or eight times, whereas others were especially good at learning to master a club.
For instance, Anastasia Kochetkva from Russia, Kate from the Czech Republic and Kostas Martakis from Greece could get their balls with numbers in three strokes!
A photo gallery you can see here
After the impromptu game of golf was over, the contestants were invited to an open-air buffet-dinner.
Igor Malyshkov, the owner of the golf club delivered the 18 contestants presents and souvenirs on behalf of the club.According to the results of the casting of lots, the order of contestants' performances on the second day of the competition is as follows:
1 - "Rin`Go" (Kazakhstan)
2 - Issa Samer (Czech Republic)
3- Polina Smolova (Belarus - Eurovision 2006, semifinal)
4- Eleonora (Georgia)
5 - Vasiliy Lazarovich (Ukraine)
6 - Chioma (USA)
7 - Alessandro (Italy)
8 - "Barselona" duo - Vladimir Tkachenko and Galina Gavrilko (Ukraine)
9 - Erglis (Latvia -Eurovision 2007 - Bonaparti.lv)
10 - Francisca (Germany)
11- Marina - (Poland)
12- Anastasia Kochetkova (Russia)
13- Kate (Czech Republic)
14- Kostas Martakis (Greece)
15- Natalia Gordienko (Moldova - Eurovision 2006, duo with Arsenium)
16- Masha Novikova (Russia)
17- Natalia Vinokurova (Russia)
18 - Mihai Traistariu (Roumania - Eurovision 2006)
photo:Dinara Nikiforova/meeting.lv
Source of news: New Wave 2007
oikotimes.com reports:
There have been used several unknown for the Bulgarian audience percussion instruments - balafon, skin covered hand drum, called djembe and ngoni.
source and photo:Marija Serifovic Website
oikotimes.com reports:
Helena Paparizou, who famously gave Greece their first ever victory in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2005, has seen her new single go straight into the top twenty in the country of her birth- Sweden.
Her new song ''Three is a magic number'' has gone straight in at number 18, two above ''Cara Mia''- the last surviving Melodifestivalen song in the top twenty.
Oikotimes.com in collaboration with Eurovision Cyprus site will cover the event exclusively for the web so stay tuned.
[UPD] The order of contestants' performance at New Wave
Saturday's Ozzfest at Hyundai Pavilion is likely to attract a big audience of metal fans who got free tickets over the Internet, but there will be fewer big name bands on stage.
The up-and-comers are ready to do whatever it takes to climb to the top of the metal heap. And none are more serious this year than Lordi.
The Finnish band has become hugely popular in Europe thanks to a bombastic stage show, elaborate monster makeup and, in no small part, an old-school metal that's accessible and hook-rich.
"We are not Satanists," said Amen, just a tinge of irritation in his voice. "People who do not understand horror movies, do not understand Kiss or Alice Cooper, won't understand us. What can I say about those kind of people? I don't even have words for them."
Read full article HERE
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Eurovision Cyprus reports:
The Greek Entrant in Eurovision 2007, Sarbel, will visit Cyprus in the upcoming days to give three concert's for the Cypriot Anti-drug Contact.
It's the first time for Sarbel to give concert's in Cyprus, origin place of his father.
Stay Tuned on ESCCY for more informations
sources:oikotimesc.com; Eurovision Cyprus
CyBC has just begun the preparations for the Junior Eurovision 2008, where it is going to take place in Cyprus. The Junior Eurovision 2008 it is going to be the biggest event that CyBC host in the history and wants the help of professional companies around the Europe. In the upcoming days, CyBC it is going to reveal the names of companies who it will collaborate.
Mr. Kleitos Kleitou (director of CyBC, and also director of Cypriot Entry in Helsinki this year) it will be the director for the Cypriot National Final for the selection of the Cypriot Entry for Rotterdam.
Mr. Kleitou it will be also the director for the Junior Eurovision 2008. Ms. Despo Karpi it will be the producer of the show and Mr. Munro Forbes, collaborator of CyBC for 2 years now, will be the executive producer. These titles have been approved by the EBU who it has watched works of team, from previous competitions in Cyprus and it agrees that they can undertake this big project.
Source:OGAE Malta
OGAE Israel is happy to invite you to help them choose their entry for OGESC 2007.
"Sabress" is the name of our pre-selection for the Ogae song contest 2007 & it's the second year of that format. From a total entries of 30 and after 3 semi-finals OGAE Israel got to the final stage: the BIG FINAL!
Below is the link to the final in which you can watch the competing entries via youtube and cast your votes!Please be kind enough to forward this message to your friends.
http://forums.nana10.co.il/Article/?ArticleID=499797
OGAE Israel thanks you for your co-operation and may the best song win!
UK Eurovision song contest entrants Scooch scammed viewers, and voters, when they used backing singers to boost their performance in the preliminary run up to the contest.
They had hidden the singers from view, singing away on stage with the public unaware that they were getting help from the two singers.
Other entrants involved in the bid to be the UK’s representative in the contest were outraged when news of the sham broke.
Former East 17 star Brian said: "I was p***** off with the whole Scooch thing. I thought one of the singers was mouthing something and nothing came out. The public have been conned."
Big Brovaz star Randy, who also lost out, added: "It seems they were miming as the backstage girls were really loud most of the time.
"Also the microphones Scooch used were for miming. We entered Eurovision because we thought it was about credible acts, but it isn't."
The act went on to represent the UK in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, they finished 23rd out of 24 acts. Karma eh?
source:The Sun
