Live: National final in Greece

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The Greek national final for the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest is about to be held. Sakis Rouvas will perform three songs and the 30th Greek entry in the competition will be chosen by a miture of jury voting and televoting.

Your opinion counts

Readers are invited to vote for their favourite song in a special poll now. Greek readers cannot vote in the poll. They will have the opportunity to vote in the televote, worth 40% of the result in the final. The international result will be delivered by Stella Floras, as one seventh of the jury vote. The international vote for the Greece national final is taking place in two parts. The first phase is now closed.

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Webcast

The show will be streamed live on eurovision.tv hereand by ERT here. Octoshape plugin required for both webcasts.

If you can't access the webcast through Octoshape, you can follow the show through the Cypriot channel RIK Sat here(requires Real Player).

Entries

Composer/lyricist in brackets.

  1. Out of control (Dimitris Kontopoulos/Alexandra Zakka)
  2. Right on time (Dimitris Kontopoulos/Craig Porteils, Cameron Giles-Webb)
  3. This is our night (Dimitris Kontopoulos/Craig Porteils, Cameron Giles-Webb)

LIVE

The show has started. The Maggira sisters welcome the audience and after some jokes, they present Sakis Rouvas, who will perform all three songs. He now performs the song Irthes from his latest album. The songs that follow in thismedley arecalled Vimata, Hamogela, Ola giro sou girizoun and Ke se thelo.

After acommercial break, the sisters take us on a trip through early Eurovision days impersonating the earlies winners:Corry Brokken with Net als toen in1957, André Claveau with Dors, mon amour in 1958, Teddy Scholten with Een beetje in 1959, Jacqueline Boyer with Tom Pillibi in 1960, Jean-Claude Pascal in 1961, Isabelle Aubret with Un premier amour in 1962 and Grethe & Jørgen Ingman with Dansevise in 1963. The 1958 Italian entry in the contest, Nel blu dipinto di blu, is also mentioned.

After another commercial break we continue with Gigliola Cinquetti with Non ho l'età in 1964, France Gall with Poupée de cire, poupée de son in 1965, Udo Jürgens with Merci chérie in 1966 andSandie Shaw with Puppet on a string in 1967. As the 1968 Eurovision Song Contest was the first one to be broadcast in colour,we now switch back from black and white. The following winning songs are presented with dance performances: All kinds of Everything by Dana (1970), Un banc, un arbre, une rue by Séverine (1971), Après toi by Vicky Leandros (1972), Tu te reconnaîtras by Anne-Marie David (1973). They are singing againduring the following era:Waterloo by ABBA (1974), Ding-a-dong by Teach-In (1975), Save your kisses for me by Brotherhood of Man (1976), L'oiseau et l'enfant by Marie Myriam (1977), A-ba-ni-bi by Izhar Cohen (1978), Hallelujah by Gali Atari & Milk and Honey (1979).

We continue with the eighties as shown in video clips: What's another year, Making your mind up, Ein bißchen Frieden, Si la vie est cadeau, Diggiloo-diggiley, La det swinge, J'aime la vie, Hold me now, Ne parte pas sans moi, Rock me. The winning songs of the 1990s are performed by famous young singers: Fiona Tzavara, Gianna Terzi, Eirini Psichrami (whose brother provided backing vocals for Sakis Rouvas), Sofia Strati (Cypriot NF 2008), Kelly (X-Factor contestant).

For the 2000s, the golden atmosphere of the arena in Stockholm is tried to be created. We start with Fly on the wings of love. The technology development in the contest (cameras, staging, light effects) is shown by the video clips of the following the years. Kalomoiras performance from last year is now shown again. Lady Gaga now performs a medley. Kalomoira performs a medley including as remix of her entry.

Christina Metaxas now performs her 2009 Cypriot entry Firefly on stage. Before the three songs are performed, avideo introducing the songwriters is shown.

The choreographies in tonight's show are not final and will be changed before Moscow.

1. Out of control

The first song is an up-tempo pop song with a mediterranean holiday feeling. The vocal performance is very strong and this cathy song is received well by the audience.

2. Right on time

This is the only mid-tempo pop/rock ballad tonight. Again, thevocals areflawless and the presentationworksvery well for the song.

3. This is our night

This song is more in the style of the first song. The melody can easily be remembered and it is probably the most modern song in the running.

The polls will open when the televoting starts.

A recap of the three songs is shown. The televoting and poll voting has started and it will last 20 Minutes.

Jade now performs the 2009 UK entry It's my time, the first live performance tonight. She is followed by Andrea Demirovic with the Montenegrin entry Just get out of my life. Hadise is up next with the Turkish entry Düm tek tek. Petr Elfimov from Belarus follows with Eyes that never lie. Chiara now performs the Maltese entry What if we.

The international poll has closed now. Stella Floras has explained that the vote won't be her own vote, but the vote of an international poll – which is happening for the first time in the 30 years of Greek participation.

Results:

This is our night will be the Greek entry in the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest.