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Tonight: second semi final in Malta
The show
Seven songs will be presented tonight. Out of the total of 56 songs in the eight semi finals, an expert jury will select 15 songs for the national final on 7th February while another five songs will be chosen by televoting. Valerie Vella will host the show. The show starts at 21:15 CET and will be broadcast on TVM.
Webcast
The webcast of TVM can be found here, here and here.
Participants
Composer/Lyricist in brackets.
- Q - Live for today (Paul Giordimaina, Fleur Balzan)
- Josmar - Circus (Josmar)
- Jessica Muscat - Smoke-screen (Philip Vella, Gerard J. Borg)
- Georgina - To be myself (Rafael Artesero, Joe Julian Farrugia)
- Laura Bruno - Something about you (Philip Vella, Gerard J. Borg)
- Marija Galdes - Castaway (Philip Vella, Rita Pace)
- Vittorio & Dorothy - Promises (Chan Vella, Alexia Schembri)
Morena represented Malta in the second semi final in Belgrade, where she finished 14th with Vodka. The country will take part in one of the semi finals in the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow.
Related polls
- 1st semi final in Iceland: Your favourite?
- 1st semi final in Finland: Your favourite?
- Turkey decided: do you like Düm tek tek
- Albania decided: do you like Më mërr në ëndërr?
- Albanian selection concluded: did you like the Festivali i kenges 47?
- Which kind of national selection finds the best song for Eurovision?
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If there are eight shows, then they are eight HEATS. They're nowhere near semi-finals yet. Please use the right terminology.
it seems that the live-streaming from TVM is not working tonight
@Zohar, it;s not like they're being forced to watch it 
lol
I'm very curious about the songs of Rafael Artesero (I liked his entries for Andorra), Jessica Muscat (I absolutely loved "Tangled" last year) and Josmar (because of the songs title).
i think its time for malta to actually send a good song again. they havent done that since 2005...
so get on with it
@ Milan S.
Yes, she is the same Georgina from 1991 
I'm hoping for some great songs tonight Klinsmann was the only entrant I liked last week. Good luck!
If Georgina is the same Georgina from 1991, she has my full support!
Lets see if Malta, will eventually choose a real song and not that cruppy-childish pieces of recent past.
PS : I am supporting Georgina tonight. Rafael Artesero wrote two andorran ESC entries, "La reina de la noche" for Mirela in 2007 and " Just for fun " for Aiste a few years ago...I usually like his songs.
@ Cyprus - No, Chiara will show up at December 6th, not next week !! It will be the strongest Euro-Box I guess, as the Grimas and Claudia are taking part too.
I can't wait for the next one, 3rd semifinal which includes lovely Chiara, I am absolutely certain that chiara is gonna make it for the 3rd time and in case she fails I will be disappointed. Good luck to all.
Well, i think we (the rest of europe and israel) should all stand-firm and pray for Malta as they have to suffer another heat tonight. Hold On Be Strong our maltese friends, we are with you and we will help you get through this (and who knows, even out of the darkest space, there may be a beam a lazer.
looking forward to:
Q
Jessica Muscat
Vittorio & Dorothy
I hope this is better than the first semi! I watched a few videos from the first semi and the quality of songs . . was . . well . . bad to say the least! I heard alot of people getting excited over "tonight at the opera" and I was shocked . . it sounded like a bad cabaret song!
Oh well . . there is a silver lining to the bad quality of music . .theres a higher chance that Chiara will win!! 
Good luck Malta 
Philip Vella is like in 50% of the songs!
Say something like Saturday night, because its still Friday night for another four hours where I am so when I see "tonight" I think anytime now.
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