When the first images and clips of Bambie Thug‘s “Doomsday Blue” rehearsal trickled out a week before this year’s first Eurovision semi-final, there was one thing practically everyone could agree on: Ireland’s staging was something special. The operatic, demonic slice of musical theater excellence wowed press and fans alike, and the buzz around “Doomsday Blue” exploded overnight. Would this non-binary, …
This weekend, we received a fair bit of news related to Eurovision 2022: backing track announcement, participation announcements, and participants for upcoming national selections. Let’s dive into the juicy information, shall we? Pre-Recorded backing tracks allowed for 2022 Due to the on-going pandemic, the EBU amended the official rules to formally allow pre-recorded backing vocals at the contest. This amendment …
Last week, SVT announced the dates for the next Melodifestivalen which is scheduled for February and March 2017. SVT decided to keep the same format as 2016, with four semi-finals that are once again sure to get the Eurovision world talking. However, while SVT plans ahead, most of the past participants where busy releasing their tracks during the last summer …
Third Semi-Final of Sveriges favourite show is over. We have two more finalists and two more acts for andra chansen round. Oscar Zia and Lisa Ajax won the Golden Ticket for Grand Final in Friends Arena at the 12th of March! Guy of the night, Oscar Zia performed Human and left a strong impression! While he was performing the whole Twitter burned. Mostly of Oscar’s fans …
Oscar Zia is young Swedish artist who already have a rich career for yourself. Zia was born in 1996 and with the age of 16 he participated at X Factor and finished 8th overall between 12 final contestants. In 2014 (when he was still 17) Oscar make it to the final of Melodifestivalen and finished 8th with his song ‘Yes we can’. At this Saturday’s …
Matt and Adam are back with another edition of the ESC Podcast discussing the latest and greatest news, developments and general Eurovision related info. The following topics were up for debate: – Iveta Mukuychan to represent Armenia – Poland going with Internal selection – Lithuania’s elaborate selection process – Three Swedish Melodifestivalen names leaked ?!? – Sietse Bakker stepping down …
Rumour after rumour every year regarding the participants for Melodifestivalen, but, Aftonbladet tends to be a reliable source of information whenever MF is concerned. Today, Aftonbladet have announced three big names who will be participating in Melodifestivalen 2016, these three names they have revealed have all participated before, including one name who said she would not return to Melodifestivalen! Ace …
As the artists do their first rehearsal in Friends Arena we got the chance to talk to another final participant. Oscar Zia is a 17 year old who started his music career with an 8th place in X Factor 2012. Since then he has come 2nd in the TV show “Let’s Dance” and together with Loulou Lamotte and Behrang Miri …
Tonight the third semi-final of the Swedish Melodifestivalen was held. Two acts from this semi-final were voted directly into the final whilst another two were selected to try again in the second chance round on March 1st. There were 8 acts in tonight’s semi-final and they were: 1. Outtrigger – Echo 2. EKO – Red 3. Oscar Zia – Yes we can 4. Shirley Clamp – Burning alive 5. State of Drama – All …
