The Party’s Over Now – Off to Stockholm it is!

After a brilliant show with a lot of quality we got the exact result we’ve been predicting for months now: Loreen gave a cracking performance and walked with it in the same way as only a certain señor Rybak did before her. She completely obliterated the competition! The reprise of the winning song in the Crystal Hall was nothing short of Amazing (pun intended) with Ictimai pulling out all visual stops one last time. I had Loreen at the top of my personal and prediction list so I’m over the moon really! I’ll pull a review out of my hat in the upcoming days – stay tuned! And in the meantime: let the overanalysing begin! Stockholm, here we come!

Voting for the ESC 2012 poll closed – here’s the result!

It’s finally here people!! Eurovision night! With a diverse field like the 2012 one it’s extremely hard to predict who will win  – so we didn’t! We expressed who we’d like to see taking home the trophy and here’s the verdict of the Dimivision televote!

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ESC 2012 Semi 2 – Some afterthoughts

Having had a good run on predicting Semi 1 it was already quite clear before the start Semi 2 would be a much harder nut to crack. Not only was the field far more diverse but there’s always… The Dimi Curse. Ah, karma!

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Voting in semi 2 poll closed – here are the results!

Over the past couple of days I invited you to vote for your ten favorites in the 2nd semi. Now that THE day has arrived, let’s take a look at (y)our preferred ten for tonight!

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Eurovision 2012 Semi 1 – Some afterthoughts

Finally it’s here: Eurovision week! We’ve just survived semi 1 and of course I’ve got a couple of things to say – so let’s get cracking!Continue reading “Eurovision 2012 Semi 1 – Some afterthoughts”

Voting poll semi 1 closed – here are the results!

Over the past couple of days I invited you to vote for your ten favorites in the first semi. Now that THE day has arrived, let’s take a look at (y)our preferred ten for tonight!

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Eurovision 2012: interviews with Turkey & Latvia

As promised I’m kicking off a series of interviews we had with a couple of artists at last week’s event in Amsterdam. I’ve been able to go and interview participating artists at the three most recent editions for Belgian website www.eurosong.be and now you can find them on here as well. We managed to get 10 artists in front of the camera & I’ll publish two per day. Today we end the series with Turkey & Latvia!!

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Eurovision 2012: interviews with Slovenia & Hungary

As promised I’m kicking off a series of interviews we had with a couple of artists at last week’s event in Amsterdam. I’ve been able to go and interview participating artists at the three most recent editions for Belgian website www.eurosong.be and now you can find them on here as well. We managed to get 10 artists in front of the camera & I’ll publish two per day. Today: Slovenia & Hungary!!

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Eurovision 2012: interviews with (FYR) Macedonia & Netherlands

As promised I’m kicking off a series of interviews we had with a couple of artists at last week’s event in Amsterdam. I’ve been able to go and interview participating artists at the three most recent editions for Belgian website www.eurosong.be and now you can find them on here as well. We managed to get 10 artists in front of the camera & I’ll publish two per day. Today: Macedonia & Netherlands!!

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Eurovision 2012: interviews with Albania & Finland

As promised I’m kicking off a series of interviews we had with a couple of artists at last week’s event in Amsterdam. I’ve been able to go and interview participating artists at the three most recent editions for Belgian website www.eurosong.be and now you can find them on here as well. We managed to get 10 artists in front of the camera & I’ll publish two per day. Today: Albania & Finland – allons-y!!

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