Malta – Kurt Cajella has told Eurovision fans and press to meet him tonight in Baku for a ‘surprise’! Kurt has got everyone wondering what he’ll be doing, but anyone who is in Baku should go along to outside of McDonalds at Fountain Square at 18.00 Baku time tonight. Kurt says to everyone to bring [...]
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Eurovision 2012: Today’s SF2 Rehearsals
Posted: May 19, 2012 by hulluna in Belarus, Bulgaria, Eurovision Song Contest 2012, FYR Macedonia, Malta, Netherlands, SerbiaEurovision 2012 – The afternoon’s rehearsals saw semifinal 2 acts take to the Crystal Hall stage for the second time. Rehearsals and press conferences from Serbia, FRY Macedonia, The Netherlands, Malta, Belarus, Portugal, Ukraine & Bulgaria took place. See what you think to their second rehearsals.
Malta – The official video clip was released yesterday of Malta’s Kurt Calleja singing ‘This Is The Night‘. Details of the filming revealed that two locations were used, (the Chicago Suite at the Radission Blu Resort and Spa, Golden Sands and the car park of St.Lukes Hospital in Pieta ) and over 60 dancers were involved [...]
Malta – After a very close finish, last night’s Maltese national final saw Kurt Calleja chosen to represent Malta in Baku with the song “This is the Night“. Claudia Faniello’s song “Pure” was only a few points behind going into the final round of voting. Either songs could have won in a nailbiting finish [...]
Malta – The Maltese semi-final will be held tonight. 16 of the 22 artists will proceed to the national final which will be held tomorrow. You can watch the show here. See our readers favorites in our Maltese national final poll! Here are the contestants:
Malta – In exactly one month the semi-final of the Maltese national final will be held. 24 artists will compete for 16 places in the national final which will be held one day later, on February 4. Among the participants is Fabrizio Faniello who represented Malta in 2001 and 2006. Many other artists return [...]
Malta – The Maltese broadcaster TVM has released the full versions of all 24 songs taking part in Malta Song For Europe 2012, after releasing 1-minute demo versions of each songs earlier. Just like last year, the Maltese national final will be spread over two nights: Friday January 27 all 24 songs will compete [...]
Malta: Listen to Snippets of the 24 Semi-Finalists
Posted: November 26, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in MaltaMalta – Last night the twenty-four semi-finalists of the Maltese national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 were revealed and 1-minute snippets of the songs were aired on Maltese television. The semi-final will be held on February 3, 2012 followed by the national final with 16 participants the next day. The Maltese representative [...]
Malta – The Maltese national broadcaster TVM (PBS) has revealed the 62 entries that advanced to the second round of the national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. A total of 161 songs had been submitted. The 62 lucky qualifiers were selected by a jury that listened to the entries on a CD. [...]
Malta – Malta has chosen the song that will represent them at the Eurovision Song Contest 2011. Glen Vella and his song “One life” will represent Malta in Düsseldorf. In the final phase the winning song was chosen through 60% expert jury and 40% public vote. The televoters favoured one life. Then each of the [...]
Malta – The preliminary round was held in Malta yesterday and a total of 16 entries qualified for the big final to be held today! In the final phase the winning song will be chosen through 60% expert jury and 40% public vote. 2-time Eurovision participant Fabrizio Faniello qualified for the final. The song Ralph [...]
Malta – Tonight PBS will air the preliminary round of the Maltese national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest. A total of 24 songs will be presented to the Maltese public. However, only 16 songs will qualify for the final tomorrow. A mixture of jury and televote will decide who will qualify. As usual there [...]
Eurovision recap (24)
Posted: January 27, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Ireland, Israel, MaltaThis time with news from Malta, Ireland, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria and Israel Bulgaria – The Bulgarian national broadcaster BNT has announced the submission deadline for their selection process. The call for songs ends February 9, just 13 days before the national final. Artists and composers may send their entries in form of a CD or DVD [...]
Ralph Siegel had written a song for Lena
Posted: January 16, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in Germany, MaltaMalta/Germany – He has written 18 songs that made it to final of the Eurovision Song Contest and in Germany his nickname is thus “Mr. Eurovision”: Ralph Siegel. He has recently revealed that his song “I’ll follow the sunshine” which he entered into the Maltese selection this year, had originally been written for Lena. In [...]
Malta – The Maltese national broadcaster PBS has now published the 20 songs vying to represent the Mediterranean island in Düsseldorf. You can listen to the songs on the official website for the 2011 Maltese selection. The national final will be held on February 12. Among the participants is 2-time Eurovision entrant Fabrizio Faniello, as [...]
Malta – PBS, the Maltese national broadcaster has just announced the 24 songs which will participate in “Malta Eurovision Festival 2011″. As usual there are many returnees among the competitors. The most well-known one is probably 2-time Eurovision participant Fabrizio Faniello, who represented his country in 2001 and 2006 (so 2o11 seems logic does it [...]
Chiara and Niamh Kavanagh meet the press
Posted: January 2, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in Ireland, Malta, RomaniaRomania – They both were judges on the Romanian national final and helped choose Hotel FM as the Romanian representative. A day before the final Niamh Kavanagh (Ireland 1993, 2010) and Chiara (Malta 1998, 2004, 2009) took some time to talk to the press. They talked about leaving their families alone on New Years Eve, [...]
Eurovision recap (21)
Posted: December 22, 2010 by eurovisiontimes in Estonia, FYR Macedonia, Iceland, MaltaThis time with news from FYR Macedonia, Estonia and Albania Malta – PBS, the Maltese national broadcaster has announced the date of next year’s national final for the Eurovision Song Contest in Düsseldorf. The Mediterranean island will select their entry on February 12. PBS received 141 songs from which 24 semi-finalists were chosen. The semi-final [...]
Eurovision recap (18)
Posted: November 29, 2010 by eurovisiontimes in FYR Macedonia, Germany, Malta, TurkeyThis time with news from Germany, Malta, FYR Macedonia and Turkey Turkey – eurovision.tv reports tonight, that the Turkish public broadcaster TRT will decide on their Eurovision entrant in January, putting an end to countless specultations. According to rumors Atiye Deniz or Tarkan have already been asked to represent Turkey in Düsseldorf. TRT will stick [...]
This time with news from Malta, Cyprus, Ireland and Spain Malta – The Maltese public broadcaster PBS has received 144 entries for the Maltese national final. The submission period ended today. Now judges will choose the qualifiers for the televised national final. This year international composers were allowed to submit their entries. They come from [...]
Malta – Anton Attard, the director of the Maltese broadcaster PBS has commented on the tensions surrounding the Maltese national final for the 2011 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest in the “Sunday Times” today. “Our only obligation as organisers is to choose a song as best as we deem fit. If someone does not [...]
Romania – The Romania national final will be held December 31, 2010. International authors may submit songs as long as at least one of the authors or lyricists of the song is from Romania. Songs may be submitted until November 5 this year. To see an overview of all the known dates of the Selection [...]
Score analysis 6: Semifinal 1
Posted: June 28, 2010 by eurovisiontimes in Analysis, Estonia, Finland, FYR Macedonia, Latvia, Malta, Poland, Slovakia17. Latvia – Aisha – What for? From 2005 until 2008 Latvia always made it to the final, but last year and this year, they were less fortunate. In 2009 they came last with “Intars Busulis” in the second semifinal and this year they repeat this failure coming last in the first semifinal. Aisha’s singing [...]
Eurovision recap (1)
Posted: June 4, 2010 by eurovisiontimes in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Malta, PolandIreland – After a disappointing 23rd place in Saturday’s final, controversy arises in Ireland.Ronan Keating, who wrote the Danish entry for Brink last year has critizised RTÉ for being baised towards 1993 winner Niamh Kavanagh during the selection process. He stated that other competitors had no real chance. The Irish national final was held March [...]
