Semifinal 1

Semifinal 2

Well done Sweden. See you next year in Stockholm.Soon the Winner’s Press Conference will take place.

The complete list of the spokespersons is as follows:

1. Albania – (Andri Xhahu)
2. Montenegro – (Marija Markovic)
3. Romania – (Paul Seling)
4. Austria – (Kati Bellowitsch)
5. Ukraine – (Aleksey Matius)
6. Belarus – (Dmitry Koldun)
7. Belgium – (Peter Van de Veire)
8. Azerbaijan – (Safura Alizadeh)
9. Malta – (Keith Demicoli)
10. San Marino – (Monica Fabbri)
11. France – (Amaury Vassili)
12. United Kingdom – (Scott Mills)
13. Turkey – (Ömer Önder)
14. Greece – Adriana Magania)
15. Bosnia & Herzegovina – (Elvir Lakovic Laka)
16. Moldova – (Olivia Fortuna)
17. Bulgaria – (Anna Angelova)
18. Switzerland – (Sara Hildebrand)
19. Slovenia – (Lorella Flego)
20. Cyprus – (Loucas Hamatsos)
21. Croatia – (Nevena Rendeli)
22. Slovakia – (Mária Pietrová)
23. FYR Macedonia – (Kristina Talevska)
24. Netherlands – (Vivienne van den Assem)
25. Portugal – (Joana Teles)
26. Iceland – (Matthias Matthiasson)
27. Sweden – (Sarah Dawn Finer)
28. Norway – (Nadia Hasnaoui)
29. Lithuania – (Ignas Krupavičius)
30. Estonia – (Getter Jaani)
31. Denmark – (Louise Wolff)
32. Ireland – (Grainne Seoige)
33. Latvia – (Valters Fridenbergs)
34. Spain – (Elena S Sánchez)
35. Finland – (Mr Lordi)
36. Georgia – (Sopho Toroshelidze)
37. Italy – (Ivan Bacchi)
38. Serbia – (Maja Nikolić)
39. Germany – (Anke Engelke)
40. Russia – (Oxana Fedorova)
41. Hungary – (Éva Novodomszky)
42. Israel – (Ofer Nachshon)

So Let the show begin.

It’s the Eurovision 2012 Grand Final will take place in a few hours and a new hosting country will be announced. 26 countries are competing this year for the trophy and they are all good. Azerbaijan has proved to Europe , that although way far away they can host such a huge event as the Music “Olympic Games of Europe”. After this we can also except a reentry of Baku City as a candidate city for the Olympic Games as they were not selected for the 2020 Olympic games.

What we will see tonight

26 countries are competing tonight and these are listed according to their appearance order :

1. United Kingdom – Engelbert Humperdinck – Love Will Set You Free

2. Hungary – Compact Disco – Sound of our Hearts

3. Albania – Rona Nishliu -Suus

4.Lithuania – Donny Montell – Love is Blind

5.Bosnia Herzegovina – Maya Sar – Korake ti znam

6.Russia – Buranovskiye Babushki – Party For Everybody

7. Iceland  – Greta Salóme & Jónsi -  Never Forget

8. Cyprus – Ivi Adamou – La La Love

9. France – Anggun – Echo (You and I)

10. Italy – Nina Zilli – L’Amore È Femmina (Out Of Love)

11.Estonia – Ott Lepland – Kuula

12.Norway – Tooji – Stay

13. Azerbaijan – Sabina Babayeva – When The Music Dies

14. Romania -  Mandinga -  Zaleilah

15. Denmark – Soluna Samay – Should’ve Known Better

16.Greece – Eleftheria Eleftheriou – Aphrodisiac

17.Sweden – Loreen – Euphoria

18.Turkey – Can Bonomo -Love me Back

19. Spain – Pastora Soler – Quédate Conmigo (Stay With Me)

20. Germany – Roman Lob – Standing Still

21.Malta – Kurt Kuleja – This is the night

22.FYR Macedonia – Kaliopi – Crno i Belo

23. Ireland – Jedward – Waterline

24.Serbia – Zeljko Joksimovic – Nije ljubav stvar

25.Ukraine – Gaitana – Be my guest

26. Moldova – Pasha Parfeny- Lăutar

Recap of the Final Dress Rehearsal

Our suggestion for Tonight

All you have to do tonight are the following:

1. Get your TV sets tuned in your national broadcaster frequency

2. Invite your friends and organise your personal Eurovision Party

3. Prepare or order your favourite meal ( Pizza, Popcorn,Bier and Gin& Tonic are the most common among Eurofans)

4. Grab a pen and a blank paper and vote for your favourites and last but not least

5. Enjoy your Eurovision Night

INFE Network will be there in the Arena and outside sending the warmest wishes for good luck to all the competing countries. An online review simultaneously to the Grand final will take place tonight through our website plus the full results of the Semifinals and the Winner´s Press Conference.

Lithuania, Donny Montell - Love is Blind

Donny highlightes the fact that is not about big or small countries but about music, he also joked about the fact of not being one of the favourites, he picked the envelope n.4

Bosnia&Herzegovina, Maja Saar – Korake ti Znam

Maja was excited and touched for being in the final, she was asked to tell some words in Bosnian and was also the only one who thanked the huge support from fans, she will perform right after Lithuania; 5th place.

Serbia, Zeljko Joksimovic – Nije Lbujav Star

After Russia and the host country, Zeljko is the artist with more press support in place, he mentioned being older therefore more tired than in 2004 and picked a lucky number; the 24.

Ukraine, Gaitana – Be my Guest

Gaitana was more relaxed and recognized being so nervous during her performance, she invited us to Bakú and even will cook a great dish for us, she got the n.25, will she bring the contest back to Kyev?

Sweden, Loreen – Euphoria

Less expectation than expected for the huge favourite, who had a flop avoiding answering a question about Human Right in Azerbaijan, her envelope contained the n.17

FYR Macedonia, Kaliopi – Crno e Belo

The bigges applause was for Kaliopi, she joked with her ex-husband and composer of Crno e Belo, also requested a big ovation for Lys Assia and expressed her happiness for bringing back FYR Macedonia to the final. Good luck as well with the envelope n.22

Norway, Tooji – Stay

Tooji was all over the place with happiness and confirmed that he is here to win as is colleague Alexander Rybak stated two years ago. He will perform the 12th.

Estonia, Ott Lepland – Kuula

Shy and modest, Estonian media thanked Ott for singing in Estonian and asked him if he also will win Eurovision since he always won any contest he took part on, his draw will be the 11th.

Malta, Kurt Calleja – This is the night

It is about belive and achieve, as Kurt’s lyrics say, the big surprise of the night thanked his great time for the fantastic work done. Kurt asked Can to pick-up his envelope which will be the n.21.

Turkey, Can Bonomo – Love me Back

Can was a bit too sarcastic with the questions received by Turkish media, and answered to the question “What are your rivals”; “My river flood though life but if you asked for my rivals, well in this case everybody here is a rival”. The envelope left was the n.18
Photos / Eurovision.tv

Communications Coordinator for the Eurovision Song Contest, Jarmo Siim, confirmed that the Eurovision Song Contest’s official website “eurovision.tv” website was hit by a cyber attack. Speaking to News.az he said,

“We are experiencing an interruption on our servers, due to a deliberate attempt to bring down the website. Our web team is taking the appropriate measures to reduce the impact and prevent this from happening in the future.”

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So far the Running Order for the Final on Saturday is:

1. United Kingdom – Engelbert Humperdinck – Love Will Set You Free

2. Hungary – Compact Disco – Sound of our Hearts

3. Albania – Rona Nishliu -Suus

4.Lithuania – Donny Montell – Love is Blind

5.Bosnia Herzegovina – Maya Sar – Korake ti znam

6.Russia – Buranovskiye Babushki – Party For Everybody

7. Iceland  – Greta Salóme & Jónsi -  Never Forget

8. Cyprus – Ivi Adamou – La La Love

9. France – Anggun – Echo (You and I)

10. Italy – Nina Zilli – L’Amore È Femmina (Out Of Love)

11.Estonia – Ott Lepland – Kuula

12.Norway – Tooji – Stay

13. Azerbaijan – Sabina Babayeva – When The Music Dies

14. Romania -  Mandinga -  Zaleilah

15. Denmark – Soluna Samay – Should’ve Known Better

16.Greece – Eleftheria Eleftheriou – Aphrodisiac

17.Sweden – Loreen – Euphoria

18.Turkey – Can Bonomo -Love me Back

19. Spain – Pastora Soler – Quédate Conmigo (Stay With Me)

20. Germany – Roman Lob – Standing Still

21.Malta – Kurt Kuleja – This is the night

22.FYR Macedonia – Kaliopi – Crno i Belo

23. Ireland – Jedward – Waterline

24.Serbia – Zeljko Joksimovic – Nije ljubav stvar

25.Ukraine – Gaitana – Be my guest

26. Moldova – Pasha Parfeny- Lăutar

This leads to 26 countries competing for the honour of hosting the contest next year. These countries are the following as they were announced on tonight’s semifinal results in a random order of course:

1.Lithuania

2.Bosnia & Herzegovina

3.Serbia

4.Ukraine

5.Sweden

6.FYR Macedonia

7.Norway

8.Estonia

9.Malta

10.Turkey

The order of their appearances will take place in a while during the press conference of the 10 Qualifiers.

Some other media has manipulated this statement assuming that RTVE had no interest on wining the contest; however the Spanish Broadcaster placed down this concerns. Will Pastora bring Eurovision back to Spain 43 years after.

Listen to the Interview here

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