Iceland back in 2008 - with changes!

esctoday.com reports:

Iceland is the latest of the disenchanted Western Eurovision Song Contest entrants to confirm that they will be participating in Serbia.

After the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest semi final, doubt about Iceland's future participation were deepened with a public outcry and with the Icelandic Head of Delegation telling esctoday.com that he could not rule out Iceland withdrawing from the competition. (Read the full interview here)

Both the rules and the selection process in Iceland will be changing in 2008. To be eligable to enter the competiton, singers and songwriters must be confirmed as having Icelandic residence by 1st October 2007.

Entries must be submitted to RUV by 3rd September. This means that artists could take up residency in Iceland in order to participate should they wish to do so.

Whilst the rules state that RUV would 'prefer' songs to be in Icelandic, the opportunity to submit songs in other languages now exists. Previously, songs had to be submitted and performed in icelandic and the winning entry was translated into English for the Eurovision Song Contest.

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