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
Switzerland – Congratulations to Swiss entry Sinplus who have just secured themselves a major record deal with Warners. Brothers Ivan and Gabriel Broggini were the first act to be chosen for Eurovision 2012 with their song ‘Unbreakable‘. Their debut album ‘Disinformation’ will be released in Switzerland , Germany, Poland and Austria initially after Eurovision.
Eurovision 2011 Related Releases
Posted: January 2, 2012 by isabelabueno in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, TurkeyEurovision – 2011’s last months brought lots and lots of new Eurovision related releases, including five albums from the Düsseldorf-sent contestants. Each one of them has its own style, similar to their entries or not. However, they are all interesting and easy-listening. Here are short reviews for the five albums released within November/December that are [...]
Switzerland: Lys Assia To Perform at Eurovision 2012 After All?
Posted: December 26, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in SwitzerlandSwitzerland -It’s not easy to get a Lys Assia down. The grand dame of Eurovision (she was the first winner of the contest in 1956) wanted to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest again, 56 years after her first triumph. In the Swiss national final, however, she only came eight and later started a [...]
After National Final: Lys Assia to Hospital
Posted: December 13, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in SwitzerlandSwitzerland – The stress due to her participation in the Swiss national final, and more importantly her loosing at it, has taken its toll on 87-year old Lys Assia. She has been examined for several hours at the Hirslanden-Klinik in Zürich. She admitted for the first time that she “might have overtaxed” herself. Assia [...]
Switzerland: Lys Assia Demands Written Apology and May Return Next Year
Posted: December 12, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in SwitzerlandSwitzerland – In an interview at the after show party of this year’s Swiss national final this Saturday, where she severely criticized one of the judges for offering her the informal form of adress on stage and calling her song “old-fashioned”, Lys Assia now calls for a written apology of Stämpf. “I was shocked [...]
Switzerland: Frustrated Lys Assia Criticizes Judges, Voting Mode
Posted: December 11, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in SwitzerlandSwitzerland – Last night the Swiss national final was held in Kreuzlingen and the newcomer band Sinplus won the ticket to Baku. Lys Assia, the first Eurovision winner in 1956, failed to get enough televotes and only came 8th. She seemed quite frustrated at the after show party when she was interviewed by SF and [...]
Switzerland: Sinplus Optimistic for Baku
Posted: December 11, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in SwitzerlandSwitzerland – Last night the Swiss national final was held in Kreuzlingen and the newcomer band Sinplus won the ticket to Baku. The brothers Ivan and Gabriel were completely surprised about their win. Whether competitor Lys Assia referred to them when calling the contest “Tonk Tonk Tonk” is not clear, but nothing could have clouded [...]
“Sinplus – Unbreakable” to Represent Switzerland at Eurovision 2012
Posted: December 11, 2011 by escbelgium in SwitzerlandSwitzerland – The group Sinplus will represent Switzerland at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012, after winning the Swiss national final “Die grosse Entscheidungsshow”. Thus, the first song for the 57th edition of Europe’s favourite TV-show is finally known. The show saw 14 artists competing for the ticket to Baku. A jury of “experts” assessed the [...]
Switzerland Decides Tonight: Die Große Entscheidungshow
Posted: December 10, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in SwitzerlandSwitzerland - Today the national final season of the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 will be kicked off in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland. The “Die große Entscheidungsshow” will see 14 artists from all over the country competing for the ticket to Baku and the honor to fly the Swiss flag on the Eurovision stage. The biggest star [...]
Switzerland – Lys Assia’s participation in the Swiss national final has produced headlines in Switzerland for months and today all of the most important media in Germany report about her ambitions. With such publicity Assia has to be considered the number one favourite to win the Swiss national final tomorrow. However, friends and family [...]
Switzerland: National Finalists In Luzern
Posted: December 9, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in SwitzerlandSwitzerland – This Wednesday the finalists of the Swiss national selection were presented on the “Engelsstimmenbühne” at the train station in Luzern. Among the guests was Anna Rossinelli, last year’s Swiss representative who performed her new single “Joker”. The host of the national final Stephen Epiney talked to the competitors about their songs and [...]
Switzerland – The Swiss national broadcaster SF has revealed the running order of the Swiss National Final on its official twitter page tonight. The “Die große Entscheidungsshow” will see 14 artists form all over the country competing for the ticket to Baku and the honor to fly the Swiss flag on the Eurovision stage. [...]
Switzerland: Amnesty Puts Pressure on SF
Posted: December 1, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in Azerbaijan, SwitzerlandSwitzerland – The fact that next year’s Eurovision Song Contest will be held in Azerbaijan is a throne in the side of Amnesty International. Just recently they published a report about the human rights violations of the Azeri government. The Swiss newspaper Tagesanzeiger reports today, that the Swiss subdivision of the organization has caused [...]
Editorial: Assessing the Swiss National Final
Posted: November 21, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in Editorial, SwitzerlandSwitzerland – The Swiss entry to the Eurovision Song Contest in Baku will be the first to be selected in this Eurovision season. The national final is held in Kreuzlingen on December 10 and will see 14 acts from all over the country compete for the Swiss ticket to Baku. In this editorial I [...]
Switzerland: Cat Fight Between Lys Assia and Atomic Angles?
Posted: November 14, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in SwitzerlandSwitzerland – A cat fight seems to have broken out in the Alps: Between the Atomic Angles and Lys Assia the age difference is no less than 7 decades! For the grande dame of chanson, however, the youngsters are no competition. With their 16 years of age, Michèle, Martina and Francesca of the Atomic Angles [...]
Switzerland: Lys Assia to Wear Her 1956 Winning Dress
Posted: November 12, 2011 by eurovisionjack in SwitzerlandSwitzerland – According to the SF official twitter page, Lys Assia is going to wear her winning dress of the 1956 Eurovision Song Contest in the Swiss national final which is due to be held 10th December. The tweet read “I’m going to wear the 1956 winning dress at the national final (hope it still fits…)“. [...]
Switzerland: The Full National Final Line-Up
Posted: November 11, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in SwitzerlandSwitzerland – The Swiss national broadcaster SF has announced the last 5 qualifiers from the Internet selection. We hence now have the full line-up of the Swiss national final which will be held December 10 to determine the Swiss representative at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. Yesterday SF had already revealed that the 1956 Eurovision [...]
Switzerland: Lys Assia Qualifies for Kreuzlingen
Posted: November 11, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in SwitzerlandSwitzerland – The Swiss national broadcaster has announced via twitter, that Lys Assia has qualified to the Swiss national final in Kreuzlingen. Her entry “C’était Ma Vie” was written by no other than (former?) German Eurovision powerhouse Ralph Siegel. Assia is the first qualifier from the internet selection being revealed and thus joins the [...]
Switzerland: Sinplus And Chiara Dubey to the Final
Posted: November 8, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in SwitzerlandSwitzerland– The Italian broadcaster in Switzerland RSI held it’s regional final tonight in Serocca d’Agno near the Lugano lake. Seven songs had been chosen out of a field of 27 entries. These songs competed tonight for the two Italian places in the Swiss national final, to be held December 10 in Kreuzlingen. The two [...]
Switzerland – The Italian broadcaster in Switzerland RSI will hold it’s regional final tonight in Serocca d’Agno near the Lugano lake. Seven songs have been chosen out of a field of 27 entries. These songs will compete tonight for the two Italian places in the Swiss national final, to be held December 10 in [...]
Ictimai TV Chaos: Anna Rossinelli Stranded
Posted: February 11, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in Azerbaijan, SwitzerlandAzerbaijan -The Swiss representative in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 Anna Rossinelli, who is set to perform in the Azeri national final tonight, almost did not make it there. Due to different kinds of visa difficulties due to omissions by the Azeri national broadcaster Ictimai TV. According to SF, Rossinelli and her band were on [...]
Switzerland – Recently Anna Rossinelli performed her 2011 Eurovision entry “In love for a while” in a revamped version at a Swiss award show. The new version has more orchestration than the one presented at the Swiss national final almost a month ago, where Anna won with 23 % of the vote. She seems to [...]
Anna gets a feel of the Eurovision spirit
Posted: December 14, 2010 by eurovisiontimes in SwitzerlandSwitzerland – She barely had been proclaimed winner of the Swiss national final on Saturday that the criticism started to pour in. But seriously, has there ever been a Eurovision entry that didn’t have to face plagiarism allegations or bad (and impolite) comments on so-called “social” networks and forums? No! (Well maybe the Belarussian ones, [...]
Switzerland: Anna Rossinelli to Düsseldorf
Posted: December 11, 2010 by eurovisiontimes in SwitzerlandSwitzerland – Switzerland has just chosen its representative in the Eurovision Song Contest. Anna Rossinelli will represent the mountainous country in Düsseldorf next May. The public chose Rossinelli trough televoting out of the 12 acts that competed tonight. A jury of Eurovision experts assessed the songs, but did not have a direct influence on the [...]
Switzerland – By the end of this day we will know the first song which will compete for the Eurovision crown next May in Düsseldorf. Switzerland decides tonight, earlier than any other country, whom to send to their neighbours. 12 candidates have been chosen by SF and the respective radio stations of the language regions [...]
Our interview with Swiss finalist Ilira
Posted: December 9, 2010 by eurovisiontimes in Albania, Kosovo, SwitzerlandSwitzerland – She is one of the favourites to win the Swiss national final this Saturday and thus to represent Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf. With the band “The Colors” she entered the song home into the competition, which is performed in Albanian and Swiss German. The combo will compete with [...]
Switzerland: Running order and ‘Eurovision experts’
Posted: November 30, 2010 by eurovisiontimes in SwitzerlandSwitzerland – More news about the Swiss national final “Die große Entscheidungshow” to be held in 2 weeks were revealed today. A jury of 5 “Eurovision experts” (according to SF at least) will comment on the performances of the 13 competitors, who were chosen by the Swiss radio stations and through online votings. In addition, [...]
Switzerland – The last song of the Swiss national final has finally been revealed: The French-speaking radio of Switzerland had already announced that Aliose would represent the Francophone part of the country in the Swiss national final to be held on December 11 in Kreuzlingen. The popular duo Aliose will compete with their song “Sur [...]
