2023-05-12 04:00:00
The hall in Liverpool at yesterday’s second semi-final of the 67th Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) raged following the performance of the Austrians Teya & Salena with their hit-potential dance number “Who the hell is Edgar?”. Anything other than entering the final singing competition on Saturday would have been a surprise. At 11:04 p.m. it was finally clear that the Austrian contribution, together with nine other contributions that were found to be good, might play for victory. As well as Austria, Brunettes also secured their final ticket for Armenia with their Ariana Grande-esque number “Future Lover”, as did Cyprus’ muscle beau Andrew Lambrou, who also got to languish his anthem “Break A Broken Heart” once more. Poland’s Blanka can once once more perform Spanish beach party rhythms in the final round. With his retro disco number “Because Of You”, the Belgian university teacher Gustaph has also become a fan favourite. Also present: Estonia, Lithuania, Australia, Armenia, Slovenia. With this, Austria returned to the ESC weekend for the first time since 2018.
Greece, Denmark, Iceland, Georgia, Romania and San Marino were not able to progress this time in online voting.
22 fog machines and eight wind machines swirled the typical ESC atmosphere through the air. Remarkably entertaining and humorous moderated by the Ukrainian Julia Sanina and the English Hannah Waddingham and Alesha Dixon. Finland, Israel, Croatia, Moldova, Norway, Portugal, Switzerland, Sweden, Serbia and the Czech Republic had already qualified for Saturday on Tuesday.
Photo gallery: Song Contest: This is how Austria has performed so far
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Teya & Salena were already at the top in an audience poll conducted by ARD shortly before yesterday’s semi-final. Well ahead of Slovenia’s boy scout look band Joker Out with their “Carpe Diem” and the Australian quintet Voyager with singer Danny Estrin who grew up in Buchholz in Lower Saxony (D) and his excitedly waving drummer (song: “Promise”).
In addition to the ten semi-finalists on Saturday, there are also the five major contributors from the European Broadcasting Union (EBU): Germany, Great Britain, Italy, France and Spain, as well as last year’s winner Ukraine, for whom England is organizing the event this year with a remarkable focus on Ukrainian culture.
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