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Feb 11, 2010

Danish Star- Tomas N'Evergreen is a Danish Man in Moscow

-the male half of N'evergreen & Chanee, who will represent Denmark in Oslo.
This is Tomas N'evergreen, he made a name for himself a few years
back with his Euro Hit 'Since you've been gone' most of his success was found in eastern
europe .. Where he had a few Russian No: 1's the most recent being "She believes in Gold"
The dane is from Aahus, and was born Thomas Christiansen, alot more danish
than N'evergreen! He now lives in Moscow, and performed his song
'One More Try' in the Russian National Selection last year for
Eurovision Song Contest- click on
the song to see this try-out for Russia. We prefer much more the
Russian Hits, one such vid' below- this must all mean a
12 points from Russia if Denmark qualify to ESC Final 2010-
One Smart move- from Denmark good luck.. : )


Feb 10, 2010

inroducting Bryan Rice- Runner up in Dansk MGP 2010



Bryan Rice, he sung 'Breathing' (click to see Vid) a song that came second in Dansk Melodi
Grand Prix 2010
on saturday night. Bryan was defeated by Chanee & N'evergreen -a strange male/female duo
with a ditty called 'In a Moment Like this' ( am normally a big fan of the Danish enrty-
but sorry I cannot get into this one )
'Breathing' is the second year running Rohan Keating has submitted his songwriting
talents to Denmark's MGP. Last year his song 'Believe Again' won a place in Moscow ESC
This year's offering Bryan Rice, had several hit singles in homeland Denmark, as well as a
great cover of 'No Promises' We hope Byran will come back we certainly will
give him a second chance for sure
and with a more up beat track like the recent single here-
called funily enough 'Second Last Chance'


Feb 9, 2010

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..

Feb 7, 2010

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

Feb 6, 2010

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...

Feb 4, 2010

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"