Eurofest brings such great gigs and also superb interviews...
Teya & Salena were the stars of this week's LET ME BE THE ONE!
Sometimes chats with artists are so effortless and feel more like a chat between friends, rather than an informal interview - my conversation with Teya & Salena, Austria's representatives in Liverpool, was just like the former. Whether sitting in the bar/café area of the Travelodge in Vauxhall had anything to do with it, who knows, but this was a very relaxed interview, the whole of which you can hear in this week's show over two parts...
And the playlist:
Teya & Salena - "Who The Hell Is Edgar?"
Interview with Teya & Salena at Eurofest Part 1
Teya & Salena - "Bye Bye Bye"
Thea Devy - "Sudnji dan"
Interview with Teya & Salena at Eurofest Part 2
Salena - "Pretty Imperfection" (censored)
Hersi Matmuja - "One Night's Anger"
Achille Lauro - "Stripper"
Lala Zeynal - "Körpülər Yansın"
Euroband - "This Is My Life"
LPS - "Insomnia"
Gipsy.cz - "Aven Romale"
Júlia Machado - "Where I Belong"
Melissa & Rayna - "Un Mondo Giusto"
Yulan - "Stronger"
FIA - "Ohne Worte"
Tamara Grujeska - "Kaži Mi, Kaži Mi Koj"
Freya Skye - "Lose My Head"
Duncan Laurence - "Rest In Peace"
ROXEN - "Infinit"
PAENDA - "get tough"
Apologies for the background music - that is the down side of such a setting but the infectious joy and laughter of both T&S meant that it wasn't a real distraction! It was a lovely chat, covering how they met and their time in Liverpool, even chatting about how Salena was the star of the Green Room! Hearing about their third release and hearing it later on was a bonus bit of information, although finding out that they would be returning to their solo careers in 2024 was a bit sad, although probably not unexpected. It was an interview that I felt could have gone on much longer, they were so informative and open with whatever they said, but sound checks wait for no person! As for the gig that night, they were superb:
There are just six entries now to play on LMBTO (including the revamp of the Polish entry) - you will hear most of those on next week's show, #272. One of those will be from this trio that we learnt about on Thursday...
STAND UNIQU3 are the UK representatives for JESC 2023...
Listen to next week's show to hear "Back To Life"!