Eurovision 2012 – This Wednesday, Baku will hold a live show to introduce itself as the host city of Eurovision Song Contest 2012. During the ceremony, the Mayor of Düsseldorf will hand over the Host City Insignia to the Mayor of Baku. Then, there will be the Semi-Final Allocation Draw and also the presentation of the slogan and theme art for Baku 2012.
In the end, there will be a show featuring performances by Ruslana, Safura, Aysel, Lena, Alexander Rybak and the winners of the contest last year, Ell&Nikki.
Webcast: The show starts at 17:00 CET and will be broadcast on eurovision.tv
Before the main ceremony, the Reference Group will meet in Baku to discuss about the contest, such as details about the venue. Meanwhile, press and fans are eager to learn more about accreditation, accommodation in Baku, visa arrangement and of course tickets for the shows.
You can watch the video of the preparations for the Meeting here.
Source: eurovision.tv
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I am looking forward to seeing what happerns! Plus is the logo and slogan out today?
Yes, it was said that the logo and slogan will be presented today too
Pity, I won’t be able to watch it live at that time..
Hi, Rosie. I remembered you today
I was looking up Ukrainian music on youtube and I LOVE Gaitana, Gorchitza, S.K.A.Y., Gouache! <3 What local music do you listen to?
Hi, luludrops. So cool you listened to Ukrainian music
I like Gorchitza ans SKAY too, also Ani Lorak and Tina Karol (you can remeber them from Eurovision), and Lama (pop-rock group)
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But I don’t listen often to local music, I’m more into British and American music, like Adele and Christina Aguilera (you can see that from avatar
And when I started listening to Eurovision selections I found out a lot of European singers.
Who do you listen to?
Oh, anything and everything. In English and other languages, I love hearing other languages and I even try to memorize some songs.
I know Lama 
To be honest, I think I’m like you: I search for music abroad rather than local. I like a lot of American acts, but I have more foreign favorites 
http://www.last.fm/user/luludrops
My entire collection listed up to this point
Cool, I don’t use last.fm, but they have such a statistics of what you listened to and at what time
Which Ukrainian song on Eurovision do you like the best?
Sweet People definitely
just her, the microphone and her voice 
My friend’s number one this year was Ukraine, she loved it before any sand was involved too
Yeah, Sweet People is a powerful song and truthful, I also like Shady Lady very much
The venue is officially Crystal Hall in Baku that’ll hold 16,000.
23,000 – concerts
16,000 – sports
Carn’t wait good luck yo all countries who ever they draw too
The slogan is “Light your fire” & the logo is like a flower. Pretty nice
Also the show had a couple of errors and such. Hope they fix that when the actual show starts
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