Eurovision 2012 – The first day’s rehearsals have been completed. Despite a initial 2 hour delay, Switzerland, Belgium and Finland have now all made their debuts on the Crystal Hall Stage. Plasma screens for the press to watch them weren’t delivered until late afternoon though; another unprepared moment in Baku to embarrass officials. See the [...]
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Eurovision 2012: Day 1 Rehearsals Completed
Posted: May 13, 2012 by hulluna in Belgium, Eurovision Song Contest 2012, Finland, Switzerland6
Belgium – The Belgian public have chosen ‘Would You‘ as the song for Iris to sing in Baku. The 17-year-old presented the two ballads earlier this evening during a fifteen minute show. The Belgian public then had two and a half hours to vote before the result was announced on the Peter Van de Veire [...]
Belgium – The Belgians will tonight pick a song for their entrant, Iris, to sing in Baku. There are two songs to choose between, both ballads: ‘Would You‘ and ‘Safety Net‘. Iris will present her songs at 20:00 (CET), and the winning song will be announced on the Peter Van de Veire tv show later [...]
Belgium – Belgium will leave the selection of their song util the last minute. They will choose which song Iris will song in Baku… but not until Saturday March 17th. Iris will sing two songs and viewers will decide which one will win in a televote/SMS vote. The programme, Eurosong 2012: Een song voor Iris, [...]
Belgium – Today the Belgian entrant at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012, Iris, has listened to all the songs submitted to VRT, out of which she will select her entry for Baku. The submission period ended on January 16, but it was not revealed how many songs had been submitted. Iris had been chosen [...]
Belgium: Een’s and Iris’ Quest for Songs
Posted: December 20, 2011 by ddegroodt in BelgiumTags: Belgium
Belgium – Flemish-Belgian broadcaster Een has opened a public call for songs in order to select the entry Iris will sing in Baku. Songwriters and producers are able to submit their songs until 16 January 2012 to the following address: Eén – Eurosong kamer 2L66 1043 Brussel – or via e-mail to eurosong@een.be.
Belgium – The Flemish broadcaster VRT has announced today at a press conference that the Belgian entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 will be 16-year-old Iris. Iris (alias Laura Van Den Bruel) was discovered at a talent contest which she won and belongs to the same record label as 2010 Belgian Eurovision entrant [...]
Belgium – As the Belgian Eurovision website Belgovision.com reports, the Flemish broadcaster in Belgium, VRT, will present the Belgian representative at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 tomorrow. In Belgium the Wallonian and Flemish television stations take turns in choosing the entry for Eurovision. Last year the Wallonian act “Witloof Bay” had been selected in an [...]
Interview With Belgium’s Witloof Bay
Posted: March 17, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in Belgium, InterviewInterview – This may the a capella group “Witloof Bay” will represent Belgium in Düsseldorf in the second semi-final. Their song is called “With love baby”. The six singers and musicians decided to start a new musical project in 2005. As they love jazz and pop a capella music, their style is centered around these [...]
Belgium: “Witloof Bay – With Love Baby” to Eurovision
Posted: February 12, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in BelgiumBelgium – Belgium has just decided upon its entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf. The a capella cat “Witloof Bay” was the winner of the jury vote that made up 50% of the final result. Witloof Bay also won the public televote and are thus the clear winners of The Belgian national [...]
Belgium – Tonight 14 acts will compete for the right to represent Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf in the national final “Qui? A vous de choisir”. The show will be broadcast from the “Salle des Mille” in the “Palais des Congrès” in Liège. Jean-Louis Lahaye will host the show, while Maureen [...]
Belgium – RTBF has announced the running order of “Qui? A vous de choisir“, the final of their selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2011, today. 14 acts which previously qualified from a radio selection will fight for the Belgian ticket to Düsseldorf. The national final will be held in Liège on February 12. This [...]
Belgium – In a radio selection this morning the Belgian hopefuls for the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Germany have been narrowed down from 30 to 14. Over the last months artists collecting over 20.000 euro on the online platform akamusic.com qualified for the second phase of the Belgian selection. 30 songs had still been [...]
Belgium – You can now watch the semi-final of the Belgian national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest. The semi-final is being broadcast on the radio in Belgium. All acts perform live in the studio and here you can see the webcam. Over the last months artists collecting over 20.000 euro on the online platform [...]
Belgium – Eurovision 2011: Qui? A vous de choisir! is the name of this year’s Belgian national final for the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf. Over the last months artists collecting over 20.000 euro on the online platform akamusic.com qualified for the second phase of the Belgian selection. 30 songs are still in the [...]
Belgium : 30 songs qualified + new selection round added
Posted: December 31, 2010 by Sekhmet Morgan in BelgiumBelgium – Noon, today, Belgium ended the very long first round of its Internet selection, with 32 songs reaching the 20,000 euros limit. Indeed, the format was different from the simple Internet vote. In order to ensure that people would really invest in the songs they supported, the RTBF made people actually pay money for [...]
Belgium – The Western European country has gone new ways in order to find their 2011 Eurovision representative. Interested artists can submit their entry to akamusic.com, a social music label, where unknown artists can collect money to produce songs. RTBF and akamusic have started a collaboration to find the Belgian Eurovision entry. Each artist wanting [...]
Eurovision recap (20)
Posted: December 17, 2010 by eurovisiontimes in Armenia, Belgium, Estonia, NetherlandsThis time with news from Belgium, Estonia, Armenia and the Netherlands! Armenia – Just a few days ago the Armenian national broadcaster ARMTV revealed that Emmy would represent the Caucasian country in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011. Today the channel explained how the song selection will work: Composers can submit entries for Emmy until January [...]
Our interview with Belgium’s hopeful Léa Clément
Posted: November 26, 2010 by eurovisiontimes in BelgiumBelgium – Léa Clément was one of the first artists to qualify for the Belgian national final to be held in February. She collected more than 20.000 euro for her song “Où s’en vont nos rêves” written by Christine Sion and composed by Patrick van Roy. On the website of akamusic.com she has 129 producers. [...]
Belgium – Another two artists have summoned 20.000 euros from their fans on the portal of Belgian music label akamusic and from their fans and are thus qualified for the Belgian national final. The two lucky performers are Joe Galli, who gathered enoug support for his song “Live my life” and Bellyve with his song [...]
Belgium – After Belgium qualified for the first time in years for a Eurovision final with Tom Dice , Belgian television started the search for their representative in the 2011 edition of Europe’s favourite TV show very early. Artists were invited to submit songs to akamusic.com and to qualify, they had to summon at least [...]
Eurovision recap (13)
Posted: October 19, 2010 by eurovisiontimes in Azerbaijan, Belgium, Estonia, Italy, SwedenToday with news from Italy, Belgium, Sweden, Estonia and Azerbaijan! Italy -Roberto Meloni, an Italian singer, who participated for Latvia in the Eurovision Song Contest as part of the groups “Bonaparti.lv” and “Pirates of the sea”, has claimed that Italian television RAI has approached him concerning the Eurovision Song Contest. According to the website poplight.se [...]
Belgium – This year, artists wanting to enter the Belgian national final have to garner the sum of 20.00 € over the internet for the production of their title. Léa Clément with her “Où s’en vont nos rêves” (Where are our dreams going?) and Syla K. with Simple love have achieved that goal and are [...]
Belgium – Sandra Kim, Belgium’s only Eurovision winner to date, is celebrating the 25th anniversary of her win in 1986 in Norway. She has released a new version of the video of “J’aime la vie” showing her in 1986 and today. You can watch the video here. Am I the only one who thinks she [...]
Belgium – Tom Dice made his country proud this year in Oslo achieving a 6th place for Belgium with his song “Me and my guitar”. A few days ago his album “Teardrops” ,that is already quite successful in his home country, was released in Germany. I have listened to the album and can really strongly [...]
Eurovision recap (4)
Posted: June 16, 2010 by eurovisiontimes in Belgium, Germany, Norway, United KingdomNorway – The Norwegian National broadcaster NRK has announced yesterday, that the organization of the Eurovision Song Contest this year in Oslo has cost 650.000 Euro more than expected. Especially the fact, that many fans gave back their tickets due to the uncertain situation with the Icelandic volcano, has left a hole in NRK’s budget. [...]
Voting analysis 5: Who voted for Belgium?
Posted: June 8, 2010 by eurovisiontimes in Analysis, BelgiumBelgium – Belgium has reached the final for the first time since 2004 this year with Tom Dice’s “Me and my guitar”. In the final it reached a very good 6th place and thus the best position for Belgium since they were the runner-up in 2003. But who voted for Belgium and more interestingly who [...]
Belgium – Tom Dice who came 6th at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest with his song “Me and my guitar” and thus achieved Belgium’s best result in years, will be touring in Germany for two weeks to promote his single. His record label SonicAngel announced that the physical single of Tom’s Eurovision entry will be [...]
United Kingdom – After a disappointing last place and the lowest viewing figures ever for a Eurovision Song Contest, it was everything but certain that the BBC would come back to Eurovision in 2011. They now announced through their twitter account, that they will return next year saying: “Let’s hope for better luck next year, [...]
