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Eurovision Day 3: Slovakia and Denmark
Song 8: Slovakia
One country returning to the Eurovision Song Contest after a long absence is Slovakia. The country arranged a long and varying national finals round that was eventually won by TV and musical stars Kamil Mikulcik and Nela Pociskova, who is only 18 years old. This do has the stage shining in mostly red and orange and the performance is based around the two artists and a grand piano. The song is a classy big ballad in the Slovakian language, Let’ tmou and is totally relying on the great voices of the singers, that walk around the edge of this huge stage to meet again in the middle. There is a cellist and a grand piano on stage with them and the backdrop is showing candles.
Song 9: Denmark
The last country on the big stage tonight is Denmark. Brinck is singing a song called Believe again, which is co-written by Ronan Keating of Ireland. Niels Brinck is the lead singer of the band with a drummer, guitarist, drummer and base guitarist. The stage has an industrial feel with metallic blue the dominant colour, with some green details lightening the backdrop up. Niels is also seen in a white shirt and black waistcoat with a red bandana around his neck and faded jeans. This is very much a band performance more than a solo thing now, and the two guitarists join Niels at the end in the middle of the stage.
That also concludes today’s rehearsals here in Moscow! More tomorrow from esctoday.com.
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Slovakia:welcome back,but i think u must come next year to enter in the final.they sound nice together and solo,but the song is bad.personally i dont like it.
Denmark:i like this song,its so emotional,i hope will go to final;-)
NO!!!! I can't believe what a BORING STAGE it is for DENMARK!! What the hell were they thinkning with this horrible dull colour scheme???? This song really is supposed to wake people up, and I was expecting something extraodinary with the huge stage and great lightshow for the chorus. Instead the have this...
I feel so sorry for Denmark, because it could have been much more better...
slovakia was fabulous. congratulations
you have to remember the is no people there no, like the is when the contest start, so the sounds is not so good no... they will bee better
Well done Slovakia, the song might sound a little complicated but it's performed professionally and with emotions. Hope you'll recieve some points from us.
Denmark also good but not very special if you ask me.
Now I am really curious about the next rehearsal of Quartissimo and Martina. I am sure they'll be fantastissimo.
I love the Danish song...contemporary and fresh and could do well in the UK charts with the right promotion! Slovakia, I'm afraid, I find painful to listen to...dreary, unimagiantive and out of date!! Come on people! It's 2009!
For me Slovakia is better then Norway, and I think that Spain,Croatia,Israel,Azerbaija n and Island are also better then Norway.
I hope European audience will love and award those few songs that really sound "modern" from the contest and not only ethno-pop, schlager and so on. Danish song, as well as the Swiss one, is one of those few songs, and they both might top all over the charts if adequately promoted. I think that all the countries should make en effort to select contemporary-sounded songs, this would elevate the level of the contest and also its success. We can't forget that it's a musical show, and the aim of all the music contests is to "send out" new hits and new successful singers, and you all realise that songs from Eurovision don't easily reach an international huge success. That's why I think that "expert panels" should count also in the semifinals, because we risk to see eliminated good songs representing countries not "protected" by political swap of votes.
I hope good quality will be awarded rather than gimmicks, handosme guys with old-fashioned songs and skaters or fires on the stage.
@ Duka.Sa
Mogu ti recio da jesam! 
lol
Ali Terme me posebno privlache! 
lol
@ Marko
Drago mi je da ti se svidjelo Sarajevo 
Mora da si pio onu vodu na Bascarsiji kod Begove dzamije, jer kazu ko se jednom napije te vode, nosi Sarajevo vjecno u srcu.
Dobro dosao si u sarajevu uvjek, a ko zna..mozda i na eurosong..ja se barem potajno nadam
@ Duka.Sa
Pre neki dan sam se vratio iz Sarajeva i prelepo mi je!
Video sam puno bilborda Regine!!
Terme na Ilidzi su bogovske, moram ponovo doci, moz sledece godine na ESC! 
@ Marko
Nisam uspio da upratim njihov nacionalni izbor pa zato ne znam kakve su im ostale pjesme bile. Ali ova pjesma mi je super, ima nesto u njoj sto me tjera da je slusam vise puta za redom..ali mozda je to samo meni tako LOL
Yeah!!!!...I knew it!. Off to a good start Brinck....i hope it'll qualify...he, and the song, deserves it. IMO our best entry since 2001.
This COULD be THE big surprice...
I'll vote for Bosnia....Love it!.
Slovakia - Gd voices could qualify but my god can she scream
Denmark - This is very gd one of my faves to qualify. I'm still convinced this is Ronans Danish cousin.
@ Duka.Sa
Znash zashto ja ne volim zato shto sam pratio Slovachki izbor i bilo je bar 10 pesama boljih od ove 
, ali dobro nije tako losha ni ova balada.......
P.S. Sarajevo 
plsssss could someone tell me abaout the thing of the backgraund on the stage are they chosen by or from the contry or the singer or are they chosen from EBU i mean the director of the backraund can someone plsss give me a explain thanks good luck to everyone see you kisses
I can't understand why so many people don't like Slovakia's song. I think it's the best ballad this year. I wish them many luck and a great comeback!
About Denmark..hmm..it's to Boyzoneish ..good luck to them but I don't see it placeing very well!
Bosnia~s song is the best this year
I don't rate the Slovakian song very much, it's a bit dreary and I can't see it making it to the final.
The Danish song isn't one of my favourites, but he can sing, the song is quite strong and I'm fairly sure it will be in the final.
@ Morten
I must tell you that I didn't like Denmark last 7 years! 
I even didn't like Brinck since today rehearsal, but after that I it because it is so goood live!!! I want it in TOP 10!
Fantastic Brinck!!! Thank you!!! I "Believe Again"...!!!! We all know that it´s still very early days....and many things can and will change in the different performances.... So I can only imagine how Brinck is going to shine even more on that stage next week!! I can´t wait!!
By the way: Congratulations to Norway on winning ESC 2009;-)))))
Slovakia - it was good until the guy started singing
Denmark - Not as good live is it!! As Michael said it could easily be a Boyzone B-side. Get Ronan to co-write the song and get some Stars in Their Eyes wannabee to sing it. Crass and poor.
i didnt like these songs very much but i wish the best for them
danish song is like a boyzone b-side.
Denmark very good !!! Slovakia better that i expectet !!! Good luck !!!
Stockholm calling
i agree with you! GOOO Denmark!
Slovakia: Great voices, probably the best of all the participants, the song is not bad but they need to be more confident on the stage if they want to be in finals.
Denmark: He knows how to get the attention, besides is a catchy and good song and there's no doubt that he will be in finals.
My ranking of these 9 is:
1-Norway
2-Croatia
3-Denmark
4-Cyprus
5-Slovakia
6-Poland
7-Ireland
8-Serbia
9-Latvia
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