Rewind Anders Ekborg from Semi-final 1 -'The Saviour'

This Schlager Anthem was knocked out at the

first post. Certainly a lot more could have been

done with the Stage Presentation,

as a great tune & chorus,

next time Anders..

A Champane-Party for Winners + a Fab Chicken Ad from Charlotte Perrelli (See Clip)

Ola & Salem, both turned out to be 'Unstoppable' on the journey Direct to Globen

It was touch and go for Ola as it was down to him

and Jessica Andersson

as they awaited their fate in the Green room

Ola went though, while Jessica's

'I did it for love' went to second chance round with

'Road salt' by Pain of Salvation, perhapes the song

that sounds least like a swedish Mf song ever !!

Congratulations to Didrik Solli-Tangen: A new Star of Eurovision is born

It was a Big Super Schlager weekend when three european countries picked
the song that would represent them in Eurovision Song contest 2010. Iceland, Norway
& Denmark
held there Melodi Grand Prix final,
in Oslo the pressure was higher as the winning
song does have an automatic place in the ESC 2010 Final
( seeing as Norway is the host country in 2010 )

In Norway fter 2 rounds of Jury & public votes the three favourites came out on top
Didrik Solli-Tangen, A1 ( brit boy-band) & Hard rockers -Keep of Kalessin in the
final vote. Didrik won the night with 466, 675 votes. Swedish songwriter Fredrik
Kempe wrote this song along with Hanne Sorvaag (she wrote 'Disappear' for No Angels
girl-band in ESC 2008 for Germany )

Its wonderful to see Fredrik Kempe going into his third Eurovision Final, in the past
he has won a place for homeland Sweden with 'Hero' & 'La Voix' - PLUS we
are certain this will not be the last time Kempe Magic will fill the Eurovision Stage...

Måns is one Amazing Host Ohhh and Dolph too.

Svt certainly got it right with this year's three host, hats off to Dolph who sang a

great version of the Elvis hit 'A little less conversation'

but best of all for us,

was grand Master of Melodifestivalen Mans.

Meanwhile it has been reported in the swedish press Dolph will only appear once more in the Globen final as he will be away working in L.A. for this time.

Måns Zelmerlöw click here to hear a great interview

in english (!!) on his new host role

for Melodifestivalen with eurovision tv

Linda's Hot, but out!

ohh no she is out, Linda Pritchard came close but no cigar! check out her

schlager stomper 'You're making me ( hot hot hot )'

is she in fact the new Shirley Clamp

in the making? Shirley herself suffered in the first round of Melodifestivalen 2009. Yet

following her treatment in the schalger-ambulance

Shil' bounced back- all the way to

the top spot in swedish singles chart. It will be interesting to see how this new hit does?

Melodifestivalen - Semi-Final 1 Searching for a Hero in 2010

The opening night of Melodifestivalen 2010- the STARs of the evening had to be

Charlotte Perrelli, Sonja Aldén

& Nanne Grönvall

an amazing performance of 'Holding out for a Hero' three ladies who had no songs for Melodifestivalen 2010 to offer this year but still stole the whole show- and the public re-action

was please please send them direct to Globen.....

the results to follow- when the schlager-ambulance was called out twice !!!

schlager shock- horror in Örnsköldsvik

Anders Ekborg- Who is this man?

He made his debut 1986 in the musical “Zorba”. He is well known

for his

leading performances in “Kristina from Duvemåla” and “Chess”

(written by Benny & Björn), “Evita” and

“Jesus Christ Superstar” to mention a few. During 2007 he did

performances featuring music by Queen in “Another kind of magic”.

Anders was asked Why Melodifestivalen now in 2010-

"Every year people send me songs for Melodifestivalen until now I haven’t

got any song that I really wanted to do. For me it is important that the

song has humour and some power in it and this song really has it all.

How does Anders describe 'The Saviour' It’s both an up-tempo and a ballad.

A ballad with a beat and lot of high notes.

A little bit like Queen and with some Italian influences as well.

Melodifestivalen 2010: Are we ready?

Time to listen to Clips of

Örnsköldsvik- semi-final 1 (click here to listen)

As always Svt give us a 1-minute clips of the first eight tunes

to be performed on saturday night.

On first listening the stand-out tracks are Ola's 'Unstoppable' certainly

he missed out on a Globen place with 'Love in Stereo' This time he should

make it. 'The Saviour' Anders Ekborg has come up with a tune much better than

Christer Sjorgren 'I love Europe' to which this song is being compared to.

We luv this Saviour's chorus!

Along with Ola & Jessica Andersson, 'The Saviour' is the hot hot

favourite while New diva Linda Pritchard carries the hopes of this season's

first schlager stomped. -Go Linda Go

What will happen on the night? just incase

our crew in the schlager-Ambulance are on call for

any possible causality...

Only just a few more sleeps to go til Melodifestivalen 2010

svt have begun the countdown....

tick tock to the opening of Melodifestivalen 2010.

We are excited - if you want to relive some schlager memories

of Melodifestivalen of the past check out this 1hr special shown

few weeks back on svt, it's all in svenska - But, features the amazing return

of Mr Henrik Johnsson...click here - Find out what it's all bout.

"Melodifestivalen 2010- vägen till Oslo"

Come in Oslo- it's time for your Melodi Grand Prix Final 2010

In Scandinavia this weekend, there is a whole fest of Melodi Grand Prix

finals, as Denmark & Norway will both make the choice of Songs for Oslo 2010. Norway's Finale

has attracted alot of attention. As who can follow-up on Alexander Rybak's victory last year. Well there

is some strong contenders for Spekturm on saturday with A1 boyband who are riding on the crest of a

comeback wave just now. Maria Haukaas Storeng with a firm favourite already with the homeland.

If something a bit different is required I think ' Jealous'cause I love you' by Venke Knutson should

not be overlooked if you asked me. Heavy Rocker tune 'The Dragontower' promises to be a vote

puller this year in Norway. Alexander Stenerud has Alexander Rybak's lucky Song 6 spot from

MGP 2009 as we shall have to see if 'Give it to me' is as good as 'Find the Girl' from last year.

The best is almost the last in the running order, always a good place to be in. So SchlagerVotes & hopes

go to Mr Didrik with his Opera Ballad "My Heart is Yours" come on Norway, it's been noted this guy

could be the one to do the double for Norway! Here is the running order of the songs, click on any artists names

to see clips from those semi finals in Norsk-land.

NORSK MELODI GRAND PRIX 2010

1. A1 - Don't wanna lose you again
   (Ben Adams, Mark Read, Christian Ingebrigtsen)
2. Maria Haukaas Storeng - Make My Day
   (Merethe La Verdi, Mats Lie Skåre/Merethe La Verdi)
3. Venke Knutson - Jealous 'cause I love you
   (Laila Samuelsen, Alexander Kronlund, Lucas Hilbert)
4. Bjørn Johan Muri - Yes man
   (Simone Larsen, Simen Eriksrud, Bjørn Johan Muri)
   
5. Maria Arredondo - The touch
   (Rolf Løvland)
6. Alexander Stenerud - Give it to me
   (Alexander Stenerud)
7. Didrik Solli-Tangen - My heart is yours
   (Hanne Sørvaag, Fredrik Kempe)
8. Keep of Kalessin - The dragontower
   (Arnt Grønbech/Arnt Grønbech, Torbjørn Schei, Vegar Larsen, Robin Isaksen)
   

Finland have choosen Kuunkuiskaajat-The Blond Factor for Eurovision 2010

A very different scandinavian winner from Finland's
'Kuunkuiskaajat' they gave us hardrock Lordi and
teckno Waldo's People. Now a blonde folk duo who
have been together
for 11 years, and promise to use the ole Sandie Shaw
technique of performing bare footed in Oslo flying the
The Flag for Finland- & a Thumbs up from us...

The other very popular choice from Finland was from
Eläkeläiset
with a song called 'Hulluna Humpasta'
this is certain worth of a view, however I think the right choice
was made as 'Hulluna humpasta' would not of qualified past
its Semi-Final.

The trend in Finland seems to have followed Estonia's very successful

'Rändajad' (Urban Symphony) entry from last year- sung in Estonian.

Lets not forget the other runner -up -an

english song that qualified from the Finnish Final 'Cider hill' by Nina Lassander