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Victor Vernicos: I didn’t get the support I needed from my surrounding team during Eurovision!

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Victor Vernicos revealed, for the first time, in an interview with SKAI TV that he did not receive the anticipated and essential support from the team he worked with during his participation in the Eurovision Song Contest this year.

When asked about the factors that contributed to the poor outcome of the Greek participation in May, he placed the blame on the team that was behind him. This group consists of the Panik Records record label, the ERT executives, and the artistic team at large. In more detail, he said:

On the one hand, I was responsible if something went wrong, which it certainly did given that we didn’t get the desired outcome, but on the other hand Ι wasn’t! I exerted all of my effort. I may not have had the biggest help from the team around me!

The individuals in charge of the Greek 2023 Eurovision participation project were unfit for their roles. Victor as an artist was not a suitable choice in the first place, especially considering his inexperience. But, for instance, it was Victor’s team selected the infamous second rehearsal clip that went viral for all the wrong reasons in Greece, not him. For those who may not know, every delegation provides the EBU with the precise number of seconds of their performance that they would like to be featured in both the television broadcast medley and on the contest’s official social media accounts.

Victor could be held accountable for many things, but his team could be held accountable for far more. The way that Marina Satti was selected this year is evidence that we, as Eurovisionfun, through our articles and YouTube livestreams, have been heard, and we are pleased with it.

Victor Vernicos, with his song “What they Say”, represented Greece in the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest and finished 13th in the Second Semi Final, receiving only 12 points from Cyprus and 2 points from Armenia.

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Source: SKAI TV 

Cyprus: Andrew Lambrou wants to return to Eurovision!

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Cyprus’ representative for this year’s Eurovision, Andrew Lambrou, expressed an interest to participate in the contest again in an interview with Happy Day yesterday.

“Eurovision was the best experience of my life, I would do it again”.

Performing “Break a Broken Heart” for Cyprus in Liverpool, Andrew Lambrou came in 12th overall with 126 points, just 3 points outside the top ten. Would you like to see Andrew return to the competition?

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Cyprus: “I’m gonna play with fire” said Andrew!

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With the first technical rehearsals for the 37 participating countries starting today, EurovisionFun is here covering every rehearsal and providing you with information about everything that is going on in Liverpool.

Our YouTube live videos are also back and in today’s live video we had a special guest. It was no other than Andrew Lambrou, this year’s Cypriot representative.

Check out what Andrew Lambrou shared with us:

I wanna start of just by saying a big “Thank you!” to you guys for the support you have been giving me throughout this whole process. It really does mean a lot to me and those things shine through. All the positivity around me means so much. I know you have been doing a lot and I appreciate all the work that you put in.

I’m feeling very good! I’m excited for tomorrow! Tomorrow is the day I’ve been waiting for a very long time. I get to see everything put together on the stage and I just can’t wait and I’m hoping that the world enjoys it too.

Can you tell anything about tomorrow?

I can say one thing to you…We’re gonna be playing with fire!

We have heard that it will be really impressive.

Yes, this is the goal. We want to bring everything to life and I want this to be a special moment to everyone, including myself and for Cyprus and for all Eurovision fans

So what’s the goal?

The goal.. I’ll be honest with you. We know that Eurovision is about uniting the world. It always does. The slogan this year is “United By Music”.It’s a competition, but my goal is to go out there and give absolutely everything, to perform from here, to perform with meaning and whatever will be after that will be. I’m just focused on walking off that stage and feeling proud of myself and hoping that everyone can feel that sense of proudness too.

One last question! Will Australia give 12 points to Andrew this year?

We gonna have to wait and see. But I must say I’m also feeling a lot from Australia too, which is super special to me. And we’ll find out soon.

In the end, we wished the Cypriot representative together with the audience watching the live show the best of luck, to make all Greeks proud with his performance.

In the video below you can watch the short interview to Andrew Lambrou from 18:26.

Tomorrow takes place the first rehearsal of Cyprus, and we will find out what the Cypriot delegation had been preparing all those months. Cyprus competes from spot number 6 of the Second Semi-Final on 11th of May.

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Austria: Teya and Salena performed “Who The Hell is Edgar?” for the first time live on Austrian television!

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Teya and Salena performed “Who The Hell is Edgar?” or the first time on television.

This year’s representatives of Austria appeared for the first time on the public broadcaster ORF 1, on the “Dancing Stars” Show, to perform live the song “Who The Hell is Edgar?” with which they will represent the central European nation at the Eurovision Song Contest 2023, in Liverpool, the United Kingdom. More than 600,000 viewers watched the show last night making it the most popular of Friday.

You can watch their live TV performance below

Austria is set to compete in the 13rd place of the Second Semi-Final which takes place on Thursday 11th of May, claiming one of the 10 tickets for the grand final on Saturday 13th of May.

Below you can also watch the reaction video of the Eurovision Fun team to the Austrian entry.

Stay tuned on Eurovision Fun for all the updates around the Austrian entry at the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest which begins tomorrow, 30th of April with the first rehearsals.

Source: Eurvoix

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OGAE Poll 2023: The results of the United Kingdom and Ukraine

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The next OGAE clubs that revealed their votes are OGAE United Kingdom and Ukraine.

The 948 members of  OGAE United Kingdom voted as per below

  • 12 points to Sweden
  • 10 points to Finland
  • 8 points to Austria
  • 7 points to France
  • 6 points to Norway
  • 5 points to Italy
  • 4 points to Czechia
  • 3 points to Israel
  • 2 points to Australia
  • 1 point toBelgium

The 29 members of OGAE Ukraine voted as per below

  • 12 points to Finland
  • 10 points to Sweden
  • 8 points to Norway
  • 7 points to Austria
  • 6 points to Spain
  • 5 points to Lithuania
  • 4 points to Moldova
  • 3 points to the United Kingdom
  • 2 points to Israel
  • 1 point to Georgia

After the votes of the 23 fan clubs the overall results are as per below

Sweden is still in the lead with only 6 points away from Finland in the second place.

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Source:Ogae International

Eurovision 2023: Ruslana will be present at the 67th Song Contest!

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The national broadcaster of Ukraine, UA:PBC, confirmed today that the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2004, Ruslana, will be present at the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool.

After an Instagram post in which Ruslana questioned her exclusion from the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool, the national broadcaster of Ukraine confirmed that she is going to be present in Liverpool. According to UA:PBC statement:

“The BBC together with the European Broadcasting Union are organising Eurovision 2023 in consultation with Public Broadcasting. On the initiative of Public Broadcasting, Ruslana, the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2004, was included in the program of the competition. We know for sure that the singer and her team know about these plans, and what’s more, they have already made the necessary preparations.

For today, we can only emphasize that Ruslana will perform in a number of formats that will take place before and during the Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool, in particular in the final of the contest. As far as we know, the BBC intends to include Ruslana in the Eurovision 2023 final.

Ruslana’s victory in 2004 was a symbolic event for the entire country and initiated high standards of representation of Ukraine at the contest for almost 20 years , inspired subsequent participants to new victories. So, of course, Ruslana’s participation in the show held on behalf of Ukraine is important and justified.”

Through her social media accounts Ruslana expressed her surprise that she is the only Ukrainian winner not invited at Eurovision 2023, which is hosted this year by the BBC on behalf of Ukraine. The following Ukrainian artists have already been confirmed as performing or featuring in the show:

  • Julia Sanina
  • Alyosha (ESC 2010)
  • Mariya Yaremchuk (ESC 2014)
  • Otoy
  • Zlata Dziunka (JESC 2022)
  • Kalush Orchestra (Eurovision 2022 winners)
  • Go-A (ESC 2020 & 2021)
  • Jamala (Eurovision 2016 winner)
  • Tina Karol (Eurovision 2006)
  • Verka Serduchka (Eurovision 2007)

Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun for all the details around the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest which takes place in a few days at Liverpool, the United Kingdom.

Source: Eurovoix

OGAE Poll 2023: The results of Luxembourg and the Rest of the World!

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The next OGAE clubs that revealed their votes are OGAE Luxembourg and Rest of the World.

The 65 members of  OGAE Luxembourg voted as per below

  • 12 points to France
  • 10 points to Italy
  • 8 points to Finland
  • 7 points to Austria
  • 6 points to the United Kingdom
  • 5 points to Belgium
  • 4 points to Moldova
  • 3 points to Portugal
  • 2 points to Malta
  • 1 point to Sweden

The 120 members of OGAE Rest of the World voted as per below

  • 12 points to Finland
  • 10 points to Sweden
  • 8 points to Austria
  • 7 points to France
  • 6 points to Norway
  • 5 points to the United Kingdom
  • 4 points to Italy
  • 3 points to Spain
  • 2 points to Portugal
  • 1 point to Czechia

After the votes of the 23 fan clubs the overall results are as per below

Sweden is the leader of the overall OGAE Poll 2023 Scoreboard with 236 votes, while Finland in the second place is closing further the gap after the singe vote of the OGAE Luxembourg to Sweden.

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Source:Ogae International

Eurovision 2023: BBC revealed details of the Three Live Shows!

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BBC has today revealed all the details of the three live show of the 67th Eurovision Song Contest 2023 to be held in Liverpool, the United Kingdom.

Semi-Final One

The night of the first semi-final will open with a video of a young Liverpool boy crossing the city announcing to family, friends and neighbors (and special guests!!) that Eurovision has arrived in Liverpool.

Julia Sanina will perform “Маяк” by The Hardkiss. Маяк is the Ukrainian word for Lighthouse, and this interpretation is meant to symbolize in many ways how the United Kingdom is united through music with Ukraine by hosting the 2023 Contest on behalf of the winning country of 2022.

Rita Ora will perform a medley of her hits during the first semi-final voting process, as well as a world premiere of ‘Praising You’. Alyosha and Rebecca Fergusson will perform a cover of “Ordinary World” together.

Timur Myroshnychenko will provide highlights of the Opening Ceremony, while former contest hosts Måns Zelmerlöw (2016) and Filomena Cautela (2018) will continue with their Eurovision insights.

Semi-Final Two

A spoken word piece will open the Second Semi-Final talking about the history of the Eurovision Song Contest.

“Music Unites Generations” will be the interval act with Mariya Yaremchuk (Ukraine 2014) performing a medley of Ukrainian music. The piece will travel back in time and ends with OTOY, Zlata Dziunka and Mariya together.

In addition, a show called ‘Be Who You Wanna Be’ will celebrate how Eurovision is a place for everyone. Three drag performers will perform alongside a line-up of dancers made up of a spectrum of fans of all ages, nationalities and backgrounds.

Additionally, Timur and Graham Norton will appear on the show to discuss Saturday’s final night with the hosts.

Grand Final

As previously announced the contest will be opening with Kaluish Orchestra and ‘Voices of a New Generation’. During the flag parade past Ukrainain participants will remind viewers of how they have become Eurovision stars over the years.

In addition to the aforementioned details, there will also be video films of Junior Eurovision 2022 in Yerevan Armenia and Eurovision’s power to create music stars

Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun for all the developments around the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest!

Source: Eurovoix

Austria: The solo entries of Teya & Salena were on the top 3 of the internal selection!

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This year’s Austrian representatives Teya & Salena were invited on the last episode of the Euro Trip podcast.

The duet revealed that they had also submitted separate entries in the internal selection for the representation of Austrian in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023.

Their solo entries managed in fact to reach the final top 3 of ORF’s internal selection alongside with Who The Hell Is Edgar? which they submitted together.

The duo were chosen to represent Austria in the contest last December by a Focus Group, made up of domestic and international audiences.

In the end, they revealed that Who The Hell Is Edgar? was written at songwriting camp last year just to make the other artists at the camp laugh at the end of the day. But after receiving a great positive reaction from the other songwriters, Teya & Salena’s manager recommended that they submit it to ORF, for Eurovision 2023.

Below you can watch the reaction video of the Eurovision Fun team to the Austrian entry for Eurovision 2023.

Teya and Salena are going to perform 13th in the Second Semi-Final on 11th of May at Liverpool.

Stay tuned on Eurovision Fun for all the updates regarding the Austrian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023. 

Armenia: Brunette performs a different version of Future Lover!

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The Armenian representative in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023, Brunette, was invited in a TV show of the public broadcaster Armenian Public TV where she performed a different and more dynamic version of her entry Future Lover.

You can listen to the different version in the video below.

You can also watch the reaction of the Eurovision Fun team to the Armenian entry in the video below

Brunette is going to perform second in the Second Semi-Final of the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest on 11th of May at Liverpool.

Stay tuned on Eurovision Fun for all the updates around the Armenian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023!