Tonight, the 2008 national final season of the Eurovision Song Contest will continue: the sixth semi final of the Icelandic national selection will be held. Three songs will be presented and the best one – chosen by televoting – will reach the final to be held on 16th 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.

You can read more about the selection procedure here.

Webcast

You can follow the high qualitywebcast here.

The songs

1. Margrét Kristín Sigurðardóttir (performer and composer) – Bigger shoes
2. Baggalútur (performer, composer: Magnús Eiríksson) – Hvað var það sem þú sást í honum?
3. Seth Sharp (performer, composer: Svala Björgvinsdóttir) – Tonight

It's the second turn of another three composers who were commisioned by RÚV to submit song. Margrét Kristín Sigurðardóttir's first attempt was in the first semi final. She performed her song Game over with Martin Høybye and neither qualified nor got a wildcard. Magnús Eiríksson won the second semi final with the song Leigubílar, which was performed by Mannakorn. Svala Björgvinsdóttir was the composer of the song If i fall in love again which got the wildcard in the second semi final performed by Edgar Smári. Her second song will be sung by Seth Sharp, who was already part of the group that won the third semi final with the song Lullaby to peace.

You can find the entire list of the Icelandic preselection composers here.

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.