One of my favourite Turquoise Carpet pictures was of IRU,
as she turned around to look at who was singing her song...
Move on five weeks and she's singing the follow up
to "ECHO" on this week's show!
After four weeks of interviews, LET ME BE THE ONE is back to its usual mix of music linked to the news of the day, new releases by those Eurovision and National Final artists we all love plus of course favourite entries from new members of the LMBTO Eurovision Facebook group. I'm not ruling out more interviews over the summer but it was good to have a week of a 50/50 mix of music and chat...
And the playlist?
Jessy Matador - "Allez Olla Olé"
Robin Bengtsson - "Lullaby"
Sherisse Laurence - "L'amour de ma vie" (live)
Eduard Romanyuta - "I Want Your Love"
Gali Atatri & Milk and Honey - "Hallelujah"
Global Kryner - "Y Así"
Diljá - "Crazy"
Can-Linn ft Kasey Smith - "Heartbeat"
Dino Merlin - Love In Rewind"
Måneskin - "ZITTI E BUONI"
Marco Mengoni - "Due Vite"
Eva Rydberg and Ewa Roos - "Rena rama ding dong"
Blanca Paloma - "Plumas De Nácar"
Lisa Del Bo" - "Vlinder"
IRU - "Seen"
Nek - "Mi farò trovare pronto"
Matheu - "Dans Met Jou"
Lahakat Shiru - "Shiru"
Džimba & Ieva Zasimauskaitė - "Mano Lietuva"
Swedish House Wives - "On Top Of The World"
Da Buzz - "Stop! Look! Listen!"
Three new members for the Facebook group provided six of the songs this week:
Jessy Matador and "Allez Ola Olé" for Gina...
Sherisse Laurence with "L'amour de la vie" for Tobias...
and Milk and Honey with Gali Atari singing "Hallelujah" for Danie rounding off the favourite Eurovision tracks. As for the National Final choices, we had these three:
Gina went with Eva Rydberg & Ewa Roos and ”Rena rama ding dong”...
And Nek singing "Mi farò trovare pronto" was Danie's choice. Always a pleasure to play the songs loved by fans of the show and there will be another next week! The one link that I said that I'd put her this time was the excellent summary by eurovisionworld.com of the 123 points that SVT want Host City bids to match as much as possible:
The show this week showed how much news there is about Eurovision even in June! Show 255 should be much the same in flavour, although I will soon be playing all the OGAE Second Chance Contest songs for later this year (probably in three parts). The one artist that I will definitely be playing is the guy below that I had the great pleasure to have a picture with at the Eurovision In Concert After Party in Amsterdam. He has a London gig coming up and I feel he deserves the support of all Eurovision fans, given the way his delegation treated him in Liverpool:
You will hear the new release "Artist" by Theodor Andrei
and details about his upcoming London gig
on next week's LET ME BE THE ONE!