Anja Nissen in THAT red dress and some bloke...
I really wish that my old mobile had had a decent low light camera setting, so it could have produced sharp and clear pictures rather than making everything look like an oil painting. At least it still proves that this beautiful woman was happy to have a selfie with me, despite my having elbowed her on the stairs! She is in this week's show (why would I put her as my lead picture otherwise?), as are songs from the French, Spanish and Australian NFs, along with this guy...
Yeah, Serhat is in there somewhere - have a listen to this week's show:
Something you missed the name of or want to check out how Saara Aalto answered my questions at Eurovision in Concert in Amsterdam in April? Here's the playlist to pin it down:
"Queens" - Saara Aalto
Interview at Eurovision In Concert, Amsterdam - Saara Aalto
"Soldiers Of Love" - Lighthouse X
"Where I Am" - Anja Nissen
"Por Aqui" - Tracy De Sá
"La Promesse" - Emmanuel Moire
"Là-haut" - Chimène Badi
"I morgon är en annan dag" - Christer Björkman
"Hoy Vuelvo A Reír Otra Vez" - Noelia Franco
"Que Quieres Que Haga" - Julia Medina
"Muérdeme" - María Villar
"La Venda" - Miki Nuñez
"Black Heart" - Vera Turcanu
"You Let Me Walk Alone" - Michael Schulte
"Set Me Free" - Leea Nanos
"Dust" - AYDAN
"This Is Not The End" - Mark Vincent
"To Myself" - Alfie Arcuri
"To The Bone" - Ella Hooper
"Buses and Trains" - Bachelor Girl
"Lighthouse" - Oliver Berkes
"Hate" - TseSho
"Mižerja" - Klapa s Mora
"Neshto Shto Ke Ostane" - Next Time
"You Are The Only One" - Sergey Lazarev
"I Didn't Know" - Serhat
"Let Me Be The One" - The Shadows
There is a good chance that we might have our first repeat songs next week, something bound to happen as I try to bring you as many NF entries in the run up to Tel Aviv as possible. It is very likely that something French gets repeated and if that happens, I'm going to treat myself - I'll let you work out what that might be!
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Big enough hint? So that was show 25 - next week is 26, is it really six months since I started this radio show journey? Next up will be more from those NFs that are ongoing on their paths to the Final and hopefully we might have a "Winner's / Eurovision" song to go with the artist chosen by the Maltese public. Hopefully there will be a song to select for the Dutch artist Duncan Laurence and if we are really, really lucky, somebody at the BBC might let me play the six entries at Eurovision: You Decide...
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Fingers crossed, eh?