Tonight, the fourth and last semi final of the Icelandic national selection for the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest will be held. Three songs will be presented and the two best ones – chosen by televoting – will reach the final to be held on 23rd February. Of course, there will be a webcast again!
The show
The show will start at 21:15 CET (20:15 local time). The results will be revealed in the second part of the show at 22:40 CET. Ragnhildur Steinunn Jónsdóttir & Gísli Einarsson will host the program.
Although the winners will be chosen by televoting, there is also a jury that comments on the songs. One of the jury members is Selma who represented Iceland twice in the Eurovision Song Contest: in 1999, she achieved second place (Iceland's best result so far) with All out of luck; in 2005 she didn't manage to qualify through the semi final with If I had your love.
Webcast
You can follow the high qualitywebcast here.
The songs
- Mercedes Club – Ho, ho, ho we say hey, hey, hey
(Barði Jóhannsson) - Ragnheiður Gröndal – Don't wake me up
(Margrét Kristín Sigurðardóttir) - Haffi Haff – The wiggle wiggle song
(Svala Björgvinsdóttir)
In 2005, 2006 and 2007, Iceland did not manage to reach the final of the Eurovision Song Contest although the country was sometimes quite close finishing 16th, 13th and again 13th in the semi final respectively. Iceland will havetake part in one of the semi finalsin Belgrade.
