Eurovision first semi final at 21h00CET tomorrow Tuesday

(clickable pic) aindreas on Eurovision - come say hi!

OK, the annual laught-a-ton (Eurovision) nears. There’s a big push on to spread the voting about. There will be a mix of judges (a la the ole days) and the more recent tele-voting. The most obvious sign that things have changed in recent years. Is that very few national tv broadcasters have any mention of the Eurovision on their websites! It will be the most watched tv event in the world this year (fact). It has a  singing Ripleys Believe It Or Not tv fasination buzz about it (lol), hence the viewership figures in the billions! It will give a platform to some singers I like so, will watch them. I don’t have a tv so won’t prob watch it live… unless I go to a gay pub Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday.. at 21h00 CET..

This afternoon, Channel 1 Russia held a press conference to explain the concept of all of the events taking place at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009

Themes of the three shows

Executive Producer Yuriy Aksyuta told the press

• “The First Semi-Final is to based upon famous Russian fairytales.

• The Second Semi-Final based upon modern people and will have a comedy effect, an irony about the stereotypes people have of Russia.”

Yuriy added

• “The theme of the Final will be different, the Canadian Cirque Du Soleil team will help with the introduction, the history of a singer, a little boy who grows up, the challenges in life he faces and transforms himself in to the Eurovision Song Contest winner, this of course being based upon Dima Bilan. During the interval act, this will be very emotional and some colleagues from Argentina will help Channel 1 with that, but that’s all we can tell you.”