Posted May 31, 200619 yr This is taking place on June 3rd, with 27 countries taking part, including the United Kingdom! The countries are sending forward a video instead of a song or something... Going in for the United Kingdom is Energia f/ Irina - Get The Freak Out. Info from the official website. One of Europe’s greatest cultural events will be held in Tirana this year - the European Festival of the Music Video “EuroVideo - Grand Prix 2006†- the first one of its kind. The Festival will be held on the 3rd of June 2006. The idea, organization and production of this Festival is from "Linda Association" - Tirana/Albania in co-organization with "IEP - International Entertainment Productions" - Vienna/Austria. Kindly supported by European Music & Music Video Producer Associations - Syndicates - Companies, European Music Information Centres, European Recording & Music Video Industries - Companies - Labels, European TV Channels and last but not least with the kind support and courtesy of the Albanian Government. Most of all European countries will participate at the first edition of this Festival. They have sent their best music video, chosen by specialized and professional local juries, professional national music associations or the national record industry association. Each country, with the great values and qualities that it brings, will claim the Grand Prix. Accompanying the videos, the Festival stage will welcome all the artists from their respective countries, as well as many guests and celebrities coming from the different fields of the world art and culture. All the participating countries will compete in a glowing Gala Spectacle, where also some famous stars of the European music scene, will join the stage with their marvelous performances. The Festival will be broadcasted in most of the participating European countries. According to the confirmations, the Festival could have a possible audience of around 400 million. The main two prizes will be: “The Grand Prix of the Festival†and the special “East – West†prize for the affinity and friendship between European nations. The value of the “Grand Prix Prize†will be Euro 15.000,- while the special prize “East – West†will be Euro 10.000,-. The jury may accord additional prizes for various components. The organizers aim for the “Euro Video - Grand Prix 2006†to grow into an annual tradition and an event for the entire Europe. Albania Austria Belarus Belgium Bosnia & Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic FYR Macedonia Georgia Germany Hungary Israel Italy Luxembourg Monaco Netherlands Poland Romania Russia Serbia Slovak Republic Slovenia Switzerland Ukraine United Kingdom
May 31, 200619 yr Sounds cool! Here's hoping it doesn't suffer from bloc voting and that the UK wins!
May 31, 200619 yr Author Sounds cool! Here's hoping it doesn't suffer from bloc voting and that the UK wins! Yup, although we'll have to wait to see the results on here, as the BBC aren't showing it :rolleyes: Macedonia is though, so Boyan we are relying on you for the results!!! :cheer:
May 31, 200619 yr Author Or we could just follow it's progress online... I had a quick look, but couldn't find anywhere streaming it :unsure: if you find anywhere please post it here! :cheer:
June 1, 200619 yr Others from the Eurovision seem to include Belarus' Polina, Cyprus' Constantinos Christoforu and Dima Bilan from Russia
June 1, 200619 yr omg I just wanted to post that here :lol: here it will be broadcast by A1 TV which is an independet tv network so I don't think that BBC got the license for this maybe some other chanel! Macedonia is represented(and it's says on the site MACEDINIA David without the FYR c**p :) ) by our biggest pop star Tose Proeski(he was in ESC in 2004 :D ) the video it's nothing special but I hope he'll do good :D havent heard the UK entry tho :o is she known over there or???? i'll propobly watch this on saturday! A1 TV Plus it's also on satelite so if u own one maybe u can find it :D
June 1, 200619 yr Author omg I just wanted to post that here :lol: here it will be broadcast by A1 TV which is an independet tv network so I don't think that BBC got the license for this maybe some other chanel! Macedonia is represented(and it's says on the site MACEDINIA David without the FYR c**p :) ) by our biggest pop star Tose Proeski(he was in ESC in 2004 :D ) the video it's nothing special but I hope he'll do good :D havent heard the UK entry tho :o is she known over there or???? i'll propobly watch this on saturday! A1 TV Plus it's also on satelite so if u own one maybe u can find it :D Ahh sorry about the FYR part, just looked tidier than having C, C, C, M, G so it was alphabetical :lol: not heard of the British girl, another flop for us I'm guessing! It won't be shown anywhere in the UK - well there's no UK info on the site anyway, just a few other countries broadcasting it, so you may be our source to the results Boyan! :funky:
June 1, 200619 yr Ahh sorry about the FYR part, just looked tidier than having C, C, C, M, G so it was alphabetical :lol: not heard of the British girl, another flop for us I'm guessing! It won't be shown anywhere in the UK - well there's no UK info on the site anyway, just a few other countries broadcasting it, so you may be our source to the results Boyan! :funky: ok than :D
June 1, 200619 yr :blink: Never heard of this competition, until today, I wish they screened it though
June 1, 200619 yr Author To see the United Kingdom's video see this: http://www.biondi.co.uk/Music/Get%20The%20...Out%20Video.mpg It's actually very good. Great tune and really catchy! [flash=450,350]http://www.biondi.co.uk/Music/Get%20The%20Freak%20Out%20Video.swf
June 1, 200619 yr Author Listen to it at http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea...iendid=28961249
June 1, 200619 yr Author Good song-wonder how it will do for the UK? If it's juries then hopefully well! Without being bigheaded the United Kingdom does the best videos for music, apart from the USA don't we?
June 2, 200619 yr I wonder if Dima Bilan is entering with 'Never Let You Go' or another song? Because I get the feeling he's gonna do the same 'ballerina coming out of the piano' trick for the vid.
June 2, 200619 yr Author Here are the countries showing it: Albania - "Klan TV" Armenia - "ATV" Bulgaria - "BNT" Denmark - "TV2 Zulu" F.Y.R. Macedonia - "MKTV" Georgia - "GTV" Kosovo - "RTK" Latvia - "LTV" Lithuania - "LRT" Montenegro - "RTCG" Norway - "TV2 Zebra" Poland - "TVP-1" Romania - "TVR" Russia - "RTR 2" Serbia - "B92" Spain - "RTVE" Ukraine - "M1" I've no idea why Norway and Denmark are showing it - they don't even have an entrant :blink:
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