Margaret missed out on Eurovision
but won the OGAE Second Chance Contest!
Could she have got Poland's first ever Eurovision win six years ago? Michał Szpak might have got 8th that year but my feeling is that Margaret would have been challenging for the win with Jamala, Dami and Sergey - as it is, she is a past winner of the Second Chance Contest and had the honour of kicking off this week's show. Entries 10-18 in the 2022 list were also on the show in the first hour...
And the playlist:
"Cool Me Down" - Margaret
"Ram pam pam" - Bess
"One Night" - Gabriel Basco
"Jezinky" (acapella) - GIUDI
"Ainda nos temos" - Syro
"Heartless Game" - Cristina Ramos
"Bad" - BERMUDU DIVSTŪRIS
"Anxiety" - Felicia Lu
"Turn This Around" (censored) - Reykjavíkurdætur
"Theje" - Alban Ramosaj
"See You Again" - Denise Brennan
"Hymn Of Hope" - Vanja V
"J'ai cherché" - Amir
"Blame" - Luka
"Living In The Moment" - Finalisten JSF 2022
"Greenforces" - Dajte Muzika
"The Worrying Kind" - The Ark
"Kärleken är" - Jill Johnson
"Hold Me Closer" - Cornelia Jakobs
"Bra vibrationer" - Kikki Danielsson
"I See You" - Kristin Amparo
"Multiply" - THE ROOP
"Do You Believe In Love At First Sight" - Polly Brown
"Haven't Found You Yet" - Blue
"Let Me Be The One" - The Shadows
You are now two thirds of the way through the 27 songs and as before, here is my YouTube playlist of all of them live (or in the case of Czech Republic and North Macedonia, live recordings)...
The last nine songs will be on next weeks show - hopefully you OGAE members will all then find out how to vote and influence who wins this year! As for the rest of the show, we had a couple of fan favourite National Final songs (three if you include "Cool Me Down" being one of mine):
Kristan Amparo with "I See You" for Fernando...
The UK entry from 2004 is my UK 'guilty pleasure'...
James Fox and "Hold Onto Our Love" will be on show 205!