You can always tell when the Eurovision season is really motoring along as the shows begin to come so thick and fast that you can’t keep up! Luckily we at escYOUnited won’t leave you lost in the dark, and we’ve put together this handy guide for your next seven days in Eurovision world. Aren’t we nice?! Monday 23rd January – …
The final of Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu is scheduled for the 28th January 2017. YLE & the competing artists are currently preparing for this show which will decide the artists and the song that will participate for Finland in Kiev for this year’s Eurovision competition. The popular Finish band, My First Band, is one of the competing artists and today Antti …
Although our world does often revolve around Eurovision, anyone who has been conscious for the past 11 months will no doubt be sure of the fact that 2016 has certainly been a year to remember, especially as far as shocks go. And had you asked a Eurovision fan what Saara Aalto would be doing in December of this year, reaching …
The third and last semi-final in Finland’ national selection, know as “”Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2016” has come to an end. In the third semi-final, we had the pleasure of watching the last 6 acts, who are taking part in this years Finnish selection. Lieminen – “Pehmeiden arvojen vaalijat” Tuuli Okkonen – “Don’t Wake Me Up” Gušani Brothers – “Poom Poom” …
In an unusually busy night in the world of Eurovision, we have had a number of countries hosting shows in order to select their representatives for the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest, One of those was Finland. six acts took to the stage tonight: Mikael Saari – On It Goes Annica Milán & Kimmo Blom – Good Enough Cristal Snow – …
In todays ESC United Know-It-Alls Podcast, we are going to review the songs from the many, many Semis that took place yesterday. Sweden, Finland, Iceland and Ukraine all selected a few songs and send the rest packing while Hungary and Lithuania are still narrowing down the field of acts through Heats. In case you didn’t have the opportunity to listen …
Over the last few weeks the Finnish broadcaster have revealed hints as to who will be participating in this year’s UMK. Today the official announcement was made. There will be three heats in Finland on the 6th of February. 13th of February and the 20th of February. Here are the acts in each heat: Heat 1: 6th of Febryary ClemSO …
Today, YLE, had a big announcement to make regarding UMK 2016, the show that will select the Finnish representative for the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest. The announcement that was made is that the hosts for this year’s national final will be no other than the 2013 Finnish representative Krista Siegfrids, alongside Roope Salminen who hosted UMK 2015. The actual finalists will …
Finland’s last semi-final took place tonight and the finalists of this year’s Uuden Musikiin Kilpailu (UMK) have been decided after three more songs joined the line-up. Solju, Järjestyshäiriö and Angelo de Nile qualified tonight to leave us with nine songs left in the competition. All nine acts will sing again next Saturday (28th February) to win the chance to represent Finland …
We’ve got the third Super Saturday of this season ahead of us! Tonight, things will go a bit more quiet in comparison to last week, however. Estonia and Lithuania will make their final choices whereas Finland, Hungary and Sweden will air semi finals of their respective preselections. Here’s an overview on everything you need to know for tonight’s Super Saturday …
