Going Dutch with 3JS

The Netherlands will be the fourth country to reveal its song for Germany tonight, when boyband 3JS (pictured above) present five songs. Snippets can be heard below.



Although it's difficult to judge from these short extracts, Eurovision Express thinks the uptempo De Stroom sounds like the best option. But we're looking forward to hearing the full versions.

Red White and ... BLUE for the UK

The news has literally come out of the blue that reformed boyband BLUE will be the UK's representatives at the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest.

It's not the first time that members of the group have bid to take part in the competition. Lee Ryan wrote and composed "Guardian Angel", Andy Scott-Lee's song for the 2005 edition of Making Your Mind Up. Furthermore, Antony Costa came second in the 2006 edition of the show with the song "It's A Beautiful Thing". Group member Duncan James was a panellist on all episodes of the Eurovision: Your Country Needs You series in 2009 , which Jade Ewen won.

The self-penned song will be called "I Can" and a BBC documentary will follow the group's preparations for the contest. This is the first time since 1994 that an act has been chosen internally by the BBC.

Although BLUE haven't had hits for a number of years, we are cautiosuly optimistic of the UK's chances in Dusseldorf and looking forward to hearing their song. This will be the first time for several years that a well-known act will represent the UK. We think this is a good thing! Bring on the song!

Final fling in Norway

Tonight sees the third and last semi final in Norway. It looks like last year's host country has saved some of the best songs for this heat.

You can hear snippets of the entries that will be performed in Skien here

Our favourite at Eurovision Express is SOS by boyband, Girl Happy (below). It's probably the most Eurovision sounding song of the 21 entries in this year's MGP.

However we think the song most likely to qualify, and also in with a very strong chance of representing Norway in Germany, comes in the shape of heavy rockers Susperia with Nothing Remains (below).

So after the gentle My Heart Is Yours, Norway might be going in a ve3ry different direction....!

We want to go to Iceland!

Eurovision Express is back off its holidays, and what do we return to? A potential Eurovision winning song from Iceland!

It's no secret that we loved Iceland's 2009 entry, Is It True? so we were anxious to hear Yohanna's entry for 2011. And our verdict? Well we reckon that if Iceland sends her song, Nott, then Eurovision could be held in Reykjavik in 2012!

Yohanna took part in this weekend's Icelandic semi-final, and is through to the Final, taking place on 12 February, Enjoy the performance below.