Eurovision 2008: Iceland

Tuomo writes: Oops, I got Iceland and Sweden in the wrong order; in reality Iceland will be performing before Sweden – just in case somebody cares…

Iceland has been on Eurovision stages for a hair over 20 years without much success. However, in 1999 Iceland came second by which time the highest Finland had ever placed was sixth. And in 1999, another instance of Eurovision-cide took place, i.e. the Wrong Song Won, when Iceland should have won but came in second beaten by… Sweden and… Charlotte Nilsson (a k a Perrelli)!!

1999 was also the year when Dave had his Eurovision baptism of fire. Poor guy, had no idea what was awaiting him when he got on that train from Paris to Luxembourg… Iceland was represented by Selma with All Out of Luck (here in the preview release because the sound quality is better) which to date is one of Dave’s all time favourites – mine too! In fact, many years later I was able to get hold of Selma’s album (with All Out of Luck in it) on the UK version of Amazon.com; it cost me an arm and a leg – it’s was a special Japanese edition – but worth it every single track!

But I digress. Here’s Iceland with Eurobandið and This Is My Life:

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Well executed, cute male singer, annoying dance moves. Perhaps to clubby? The singers will be devoured by Charlotte Perrelli - and thus unable to perform - to avoid any head-on competition that might divert any points away from Sweden:-)