Episode 67 – “2008: Lovable Hosts, MySpace, and We Liked Your Other Song More”

Wind Machine Podcast

In this episode, we chat about Belgrade, the two hosts, the postcards, the controversies, the fashion at Eurovision 2008 plus the winner of the Barbara Dex Award, the interval acts, European and Australian news, what was happening in entertainment, the WTF and OMG moments of the contest, the voting, and play our top 10 of 2008 based on a jury of two…

Songs Include:

DJ, Take Me Away – Deep Zone & Balthazar (Bulgaria)

Casanova – Gisela (Andorra)

Secret Combination – Kalomira (Greece)

Baila El Chiki Chiki – Rodolfo Chikilicuatre (Spain)

Divine – Sebastien Tellier (France)

This Is My Life – Euroband (Iceland)

Vrag Naj Vzame – Rebeka Dremelj (Slovenia)

Wolves Of The Sea – Pirates Of The Sea (Latvia)

Oro – Jelena Tomasevic (Serbia)

Shady Lady – Ani Lorak (Ukraine)

Then the Yoda Beanie of Doom gave us our next year:

In our next episode, we travel to Russia for 2009! Then in Episode 69, we will go back to the first contest we watched – 2007, and then round off season 2 with 2019.

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