Tonight see’s the return of Melodifestivalen – with all six shows this year coming from Stockholm, with no audience. For Semi Final 1, Christer Bjorkman will be joined by Lena Philipsson for hosting duties – Christer will be joined by somebody different each week. Join me, Richard, from […]
This evening, 30 second clips of each of the rehearsals from the first semi final of Melodifestivalen 2021, has been released. You can listen to the clips below: Kadiatou – One Touch Lillasyster –Pretender Jessica Andersson – Horizon Paul Rey – The Missing Piece Arvingarna –Tänker inte alls gå hem […]
This lunchtime, 60 second clips of each of the songs from the first semi final of Melodifestivalen 2021, has been released. You can listen to the clips below: Kadiatou – One Touch Lillasyster – Pretender Jessica Andersson – Horizon Paul Rey – The Missing Piece Arvingarna – Tänker inte alls gå […]
SVT, the Swedish national broadcaster will not be allowing the song writers to attend the live shows of Melodifestivalen 2021 – as part of their tightened Coronavirus procedures. Andreas Stone Johansson, co-writer of “Fingerprints” revealed this in The Euro Trip Melfest Monday podcast. He also revealed it is […]
This week see’s the fourth of the week-in, week-out National Final marathon season! This week has three shows, as well as song and artist announcements… Monday 1st February Norway – Semi Final 4 Songs & Artists Announcement (11:30 GMT/12:30 CET) Saturday 6th February Lithuania – Pabandom is Naujo! […]
We previously ANNOUNCED that rehearsal footage would be used if an Artist fell ill before one of the live shows – now more Coronavirus plans have been revealed. The plans include: Only six people will be allowed on stage, instead of the usual eight Sensors will sound an […]
Melodifestivalen 2021 will be broadcast on a time-delay on YLE, the Finnish national broadcaster. On a Saturday night, the shows will broadcast on YLE TV1, at either 22:40 or 23:00 local time. On a Sunday morning, the shows will get a repeat broadcast on YLE Teema Fen, at […]
Karin Gunnarsson, the Producer of Melodifestivalen 2021, has revealed the back up scenario in case a performer contracts the virus before a live show. Karin revealed that if a performer was able to rehearse, a rehearsal run-through of their performance would be broadcast in place of a live […]
The stage for this year’s Melodifestivalen was revealed earlier today and was designed by Viktor Brattström – here it is: Here are some statistics about this year’s stage: Materials used include Laminate, Glass, Foiled Cardboard, Sheet Metal, Aluminium and Steel 318 Lights (283 are movable) The lighting rig […]
As if Christer Bjorkman and his EIGHT CO-HOSTS weren’t enough, a further ninth co-host has been announced. Christer Bjorkman and his co-host for the fourth Semi Final, Per Andersson, will now be joined by Pernilla Wahlgren – the mother of Benjamin Ingrosso, the Swedish entrant of the 2018 […]