Tonight at 21.00 OGAE Portugal are celebrating their 10th anniversary at Aldeia do Meco with a big party where everyone is welcome. Popular Portuguese Eurostars have confirmed their participation, among them Sabrina, this year's Eurovision Song Contest participant.
Tonight at 21.00, at Fiéis ao Tacho Restaurant, (Rua da Praia do Moinho de baixo, Nº44, Aldeia do Meco, about 30 km from Lisbon), OGAE Portugal are celebrating their 10th anniversary with a party that promises many surprises.
Saturday, 2 June 2007
Sakis Rouvas : Will he do it again?
Sakis Rouvas, or just plain Sakis to all of his numerous fans, spoke to Love Radio about his opinion of this year's winner, about Verka, Cyprus, Sarbel, about his own experience in the contest and whether he would like to give it another shot in the future. Sakis, represented Greece in 2004 with Shake it, hosted the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest in Athens and there are many who wish to see him back on a Eurovision stage some day.
Talking about this year's winner, Marija Serifovic, Sakis said that what he liked about her was that: "She showed she knew exactly who she is and what she wanted." and he continued to say that he felt Molitva was a song that had "power" and a deserved winner. As for Verka, the runner up, the popular Greek singer said that he found the act extraordinary and highly humorous. Sakis continued to comment on Evridiki's placing on the semi final: "I was shocked when Cyprus failed to make it to the final! I never expected this song by Evridiki and Korgialas to stay behind. As my envelope in the semi final, back in 2004, was opened ninth, I kept hoping until the very end that there would be an envelope that said Cyprus!"
Then Sakis was asked his opinion on this year's Greek entry. "Sarbel is really radiant, he seemed to love what he was doing, he did it with joy and power and that came across to people. The result was satisfactory as well" he answered. But when asked if he actually liked Yassou Maria, Sakis became evasive: "I've heard better songs, and worse of course. You can never be 100% sure which song is the ideal one to represent your country."
Sakis was then asked to look back and comment on his experience at the Eurovision Song Contest. "It was one of the most exciting times of my life, I would certainly do it again just because of that." Sakis laughed off the rumours that have already started circulating about him having agreed with ERT to represent Greece next year in Belgrade: "No, I haven't agreed. Currently, I have other priorities but that doesn't mean I wouldn't do it. I also feel that other artists must be given a chance to experience it as well. When my colleagues- even very well known ones- ask me if participating is worth the trouble I tell them "Don't think about it, just go!"
After the release of his film, Alter Ego, Sakis is headed for Los Angeles for a much needed vacation and to continue his training as an actor with the famous Hollywood acting teacher Howard Fine who coached him for his first film. Sakis will be back to do a number of summer concerts in Athens, Thessaloniki and Cyprus.
Hande Yener poised for Turkey 2008
It seems that Turkish broadcaster TRT may be the first to select its representative for the Serbian Eurovision Song Contest of 2008, as reports suggest that singer Hande Yener will be flying the flag for Turkey in Belgrade.
The singer, speaking to reporters mere days after Kenan Dogulu's sensational fourth place in Helsinki, explained that TRT officials had approached her just two days after the Finnish Eurovision Song Contest final. The contract between her and the station should be finalised within fifteen days, and the plan is to send her to Serbia with a song in English.
ESC Radio Awards 2007 voting starts(From June 1-7)
ESC Radio have announced the launch of their 2007 Awards voting period. Fans will have the chance to vote for their favourites in four categories. The voting starts online on Friday June 1 and closes on June 7.
From June 1 and for a week, Eurovision Song Contest fans will have the chance once more to vote for their favourites from this year's contest in Helsinki in the following categories:
1.Best Song 2007
2.Best Female Artist 2007
3.Best Male Artist 2007
4.Best Group 2007
You can cast your votes here http://www.escradio.com/
Marija Serifovic back in Greece(Athens and Thessaloniki)
Marija Serifovic, this year's Eurovision Song Contest winner, is returning to Greece after her last visit during this year's winner's tour organised by the EBU.
Marija will be in Thessaloniki on June 10 where she will spend the entire day at HELEXPO, the city's exhibition center, as a guest at the MODA SALONICA, Balcan Fashion Fair. Afterwards, she will travel to Athens where she will stay until the 12th. The schedule for her Athens visit will be announced shortly, so stay tuned!
Eurovision vote-rigging attempts allegations revealed
Over two weeks after John Demanuele made allegations of vote-rigging attempts involving a number of countries including Malta just days before the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest, no action has yet been taken.
During a discussion programme on a local TV station, Demanuele, the vice-chairman of the Maltasong Board, revealed that persons representing Georgia had a meeting with the Maltese delegation in Helsinki, where the Eurovision was held, in what he claimed to be an attempt to agree on how many points the two countries will be awarding to each other.
During the same programme a week later, Robert Abela, the Maltasong Board chairman, confirmed the incident but said that the account given by his second in command may have been slightly mistaken
“Can you give us points?”
But when reacting to the allegations during the same programme, three former Maltasong Board chairpersons, Gejtu Abela, Charlo Bonnici and Grace Borg, insisted that such “dealing” and negotiations for votes before Eurovision contests have been going on for years. “This is nothing new. These things have been going on since the Eurovision contest started” said Bonnici, now a top government official.
John Demanuele explained: “I can say today… Georgia, the new comers in this year’s Eurovision, we had a meeting, and they told us ‘we are new here… how many points are you going to give us? Can you give us points?’ We replied, ‘we cannot give you points because we use televoting’. They replied, ‘so we won’t give you any points.’ Full stop”.Later on, he explained that the conversation took place during an informal dinner between the representatives of the two countries. "They asked us, 'can you promise us any votes?' We answered 'no, we have televoting'... now it could have either been an innocent question, or else he was testing the waters".
Israel IBA wants once again to withdraw from Eurovision
Yediot Ahronot started the IBA soap opera earlier than ever this year. The newspaper claims that the general manager of IBA asked the board to approve his decision to withdraw from the Eurovision Song Contest. This contest is not fitting to his vision for the IBA future the newspaper continues. Instead of IBA, Channel 2 and Channel 10 eventually will restore Israel in the Eurovision family in the near future. Every year the issue with the possible Israeli withdrawal is a trend during the summer. Israel participates since 1973 and has three victories: in 1978, 1979 and 1998.
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