Ooh! The changes.

I don't know what to think I just hope that the forums don't look overly messy with GIFs and embedded videos. Especially in this thread around NF seasons when we'll all be posting YouTube videos to performances, etc. Has the potential to become really messy.

Just seen the forum future announcement. Happy to hear it's staying (for now).
Not sure about the like/dislike thing, will have to see it in action, but the notifications will be a pain in the arse definitely.

If they are moving everything across to the new place, I wonder if that will include the lost-in-the-mists-of-time mythical Part 3 of the DS Eurovision General Discussion Thread......I'd love to have a gander through that one again at some point. I think it was the longest of the various Parts we have had over the years...make it happen mods. Please.

Malta - no real surprises in that list. Nice to see Claudia Faniello back though. Really liked her 2013 effort.

Surprised at the Moldovan news. Thought they had said it would be an internal selection this year. I wonder if Sasha Bognibov is busy scribbling his latest "masterpiece" in readiness.

The embedding of vids will be interesting for NF season and our contests but I am looking forward to it. More people may be willing to vote if the video is readily visible.

On that note I should also tell you all that I will be running the DS Our Eurovision again where we all vote on each individual NF.

Last year ended in failure when I was hosting NFs two months after they actually happened so naturally nobody was interested by that time.

So this year I will be opening each NF as close to the actual NF date and if people want they can also send in their votes as soon as the NF has finished.

Hopefully that will see numbers improve and allow us to complete the contest this time.

It's a shame part 3 has been lost has it coverered the 2009 contest. Would be nice to read back over the success we had with Jade. But i suspect it is sadly lost forever.

I hope so -- the last 2 years we tried this and both years we never finished

Thanks for doing it, Terry

There is a rumour UK party is on APR 9

Thanks for the votes, a well deserved winner though, love the song

Looking forward to Sanremo, so many good names, especially Fiorella, Al Bano, and Guisy. Think Lodovica is the one to watch atm, she has been on most of the radio doing interviews today, expecting something good.

Georgian NF entries on soundcloud.

Hm, Georgia, Yeah...

"The Land of The Shin, Funky Eldrine and Oximated Crows."

I'll pass.

Sasha representing Ireland with "Red and Alone", a saucy rock number, took us to a top 5 finish

Suppose it's only an hour's flight from Amsterdam to London but might be exhausting doing both on the same weekend

God help me, I'm going through them all now. Will do my best to bring any highlights to the attention of the public

I think I'm in love with that Georgian mess that sounds like Amambanda on fast forward x 30.

https://soundcloud.com/user-679081112/3nd37lyl8ysi

Other favourites - Bithard and Avol Waves, On The Top, Fly, Fighter, We Are Eternity. There's some thick accents in some of those though that need to be toned down. Magic is going to be a hilarious car crash live with that random operatic interlude.

Okay the ones I thought had potential (providing they get revamped of course, but Georgia are good with that):

Trio Mandili - Me da Shen (aka Amambanda mess <3)
Asea Sool - Nature
Elene Mikiashvili - Fighter
Sparkle - On The Top
The Mins - Crime
Maliibu - We Live Once
Rati Durglishvili - Why
Mariam Chachkhiani - Fly (this one seems the most immediately Eurovision-y)

You Are My Sunshine is effing weird.

eta: omg Lisa I COULDN'T with "We are eTORNity"

^ Lol yeah that's exactly what I meant by the thick accents. I liked the melody of it and I could live with We Are Etornity if it was picked and tweaked a little. I thought you'd like that Nature one with its alternative Suus vibe.

Wow, Georgia.

Surprised at the number of songs and the general quality of them too...

Seems our old friends Linda & Ylva have a finger in the Georgian pie this year. I was wondering when they'd make an appearance.

Ah they're on that Fighter one.

Brequette's No Enemy has had some subtle production tweaks to the chorus and the block of silence before the final chorus has been filled with a couple of extra lines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goE0BLOZwBU

It fair canters along now. I like the tweaking they've done. It's a very good pop song imo. I'd be more than happy to see it in Kyiv, but I'm dreading slightly the live performance.

I have no idea what you mean.

Umm, this has to be fake...

https://igcdn-photos-h-a.akamaihd.ne...49117696_n.jpg

doesn't it?

I met one of them at the GEO party in CPH. Kept in touch with her since and fun to see her in the final 26

Yes, but iot doesnt seem too unlikely. Don't think they made the fin al draws yet tbh

Esp for the artists, since I imagine many of them will do both. OTOH, in a way easier so everthing is done in one weekend.
Cant be SUN 16 since Easter?
SUN 23 probbaly too late
Maybe APR 2?

Are we back?

Helllllllllllo!