aSoldier Posted May 20, 2006 Report Share Posted May 20, 2006 (edited) Yes, Armenia is now in the top 10 Edited May 20, 2006 by sSebB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted May 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2006 Armenia “I want to thank God for giving me the opportunity and making my wish come true,” said Andre. “All I wanted was to make the Final. I can’t express my feelings…” “I also want to thank everyone who voted for me and supported me,” he added. “And I want to congratulate those who didn’t make it to the Final. They’re still the best, they’re still my friends and they’re still great artists.” “I’m really very happy,” he added. “But I know a huge country that is just as happy. And that means all of Armenia and all Armenians across the world. They’ll be very happy.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted May 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2006 OK it's on lets see what happens in any case i wish Andre The best Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted May 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2006 http://www.eurovision.tv/english/index.htm WebCast also you can vote - CAlll !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zartonk Posted May 20, 2006 Report Share Posted May 20, 2006 Andre just finished his song and closed the performances. Good luck... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted May 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2006 #8 in top 10:) http://www.a1plus.am/file/img/b/804.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zartonk Posted May 20, 2006 Report Share Posted May 20, 2006 (edited) It's over! The results are... ARMENIA: 129 POINTS, 8TH PLACE Here is the how our points were divided: Belgium 12 Russia 12 Greece 10 Turkey 10 Netherlands 10 Belarus 8 Spain 8 Israel 8 Bulgaria 8 Ukraine 8 Cyprus 7 Moldova 7 Poland 5 Germany 3 Lithuania 2 ? 1 The winners is Finland with their Christo-GWAR act "The Lord"... Congratulations to Andre and the entire Armenia crew! Let's host 2008..! Edited May 20, 2006 by Zartonk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Accelerated Posted May 22, 2006 Report Share Posted May 22, 2006 Very nice performance/song - grats to Andre and the crew! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted May 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2006 the moment i so the 10 points from Turkey to Andre - this was the first think that has crossed my mind Journal of Turkish Weekly: "What! Ten points for Armenia?" 21 May 2006 [22:30] - Today.Az Article by Baris Sanli on Eurovision 2006 results. This week was such a mess and saturday night was the creme of the whole week. Eurovision song contest 2006 was a near-tragedy for Turkey. Honestly, it was a tragedy. But there is a good news and a bad one. Good news is we just gave 4 points to Greece and they gave a miserable 3 points to us. That means we are still enemies, so my columnist career can survive. Bad news is, and it is really bad, we gave 10 points to Armenia. Read it: Turkey has given 10 points to Armenia. What is happening? You lazy Turkish viewers, learn something from the holy Armenians, don't you! No points to Turkey. That is the enemy spirit. Well done boys! So how come Turks have given 10 points to their troublemaker neighbors? Before analyzing that, I will try to find out the reasons. First theory is, there are lots of Armenians living in Turkey, but there are no Turks living in Armenia. In the past, two Turks to save Armenian allegations have visited Armenia. One of them attacked, the other one jailed. Actually they were secret Turkish agents to manipulate the voting in Armenia. Our grand national strategy was to accommodate them in Yerivan and let them vote for Turkey during this year's Eurovision final. But our plan has been disrupted by clever and drunk Armenians. Second one is, Armenian cell phone users can use Turkish mobile operators, but Turkish cell phone users can not use Armenian operators. Hmm, I have no idea about this theory, but this is the beauty of being a journalist. If you have a reliable source, it becomes news, if you do not have, it becomes newsiction (news+fiction). The third and the least likely one is, we love Armenians but they hate us. Actually this is the opposite. Armenians need their compassionate love for Turks to unite in the Diasporas or to brainwash their kids with their unilateral view of the history. But we do not need Armenians for defining our national identity. But, they love us such that they build monuments around the world with both our nations name on it: "Armenians & Turks"…. Not reaaally a love…. we only have problems with the verbs on these monuments! So, what made Turks vote for Armenia! If this was a question in the Turkish secondary schools entrance exam, the likely answers will be : 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 1st and 3rd, none of them, all of them. The answer is none of them. Before writing some more nonsense about the Armenian entry, I would like to say a few words about our song. 'Superstar', the Turkish entry, was not really bad. But it was missing what Sebnem Paker and Sertab Erener’s songs achieved. And that is something about Turkish culture!. I do not expect doner&kebap and baklava there, but at least there should be something related to Turkish music culture. We have a rich culture and we should have made the best out of it. Now back to subject. This year's Armenian song and last year's Greek song were having more Anatolian sounds than the Turkish songs of these years. Last year, the Greek song was popular in Turkey even months after the Eurovision final. Don't get surprised, if Armenian song repeats that. Nevertheless, there may be a political voting effect as well. In the last three years (or more) Turkey has given at least one of its big points to Orthodox world. The other one has gone to culturally close friends. (Like Bosnia this year-12 points). But the Anatolian-familiar sound was the dominant effect, I guess. It is this familiar sound and Turkish people's good intention -which I lack because I was sleeping during the contest- that awarded 10 points to Armenia. Now reverse the previous sentence and it explains the 0 points that Armenia generously gave to Turkey. As a result, I am proud of my fellow citizens and not very proud but fine with the Turkish song. Turks has something that most of the world needs now. As (lazy) Turkish viewers demonstrated last night, Turks have the positive attitude and constructive efforts that is nearly extinct in this world. Maybe Turks are not good song writers or performers, but still Turkish people have better intentions to build a peaceful future for the next generations. That is what I was proud of, this morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted May 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2006 http://www.doteurovision.com/phpnews/images/and-reh.jpg The second rehearsal for the Semi finalists started at 11:00 local time today in the OAKA hall, with Andre for Armenia. Whereas in the first rehearsal there is 40 minutes allocated to each performer, in the second rehearsal there is 30 minutes, as there is less preparations required, and everything should just be that bit more efficient. Andre still though had a few sound problems to start with, and there were several restarts required before this was sorted out satisfactorily. The actual performance was a lot slicker this time around, and the choreography with all the ropes seemed to be more skilful. The costumes are in red, black and white for the most part. Andre wears an interesting head dress to start the song, but this is quickly removed early on in the performance. As there were a lot more journalists and photographers present than there was on Thursday morning, the song received a lot more applause at this rehearsal. Just as there is less time allotted to the second rehearsal, the same applies to the second press conference. A lot of questions tend to get repeated, so we will only try to be reporting on any additional information obtained from the second conferences. Have you had time to listen to all the other songs and which do you see as your biggest danger? "I have listened to them all, and I like the songs from FYR Macedonia and Greece...but I don't see them as a dangerous as Armenia is very good". What are the ideas behind the choreography? "Its about a man who has issues about love, and everyday problems and fights to escape, and wants to trade places". What was the last CD you bought? "It was one with Jewish spiritual songs". Which artist have influenced you musically? "Internationally, Whitney Houston. We also have our own State Music Theatre, which is one of the best and has produced good artists". You were born in Azerbaijan, so how does it feel to represent Armenia, and what are you memories of the Eurovision song contest? "Well actually when I was born it was all part of the Soviet Union. I think its great that the Eurovision song contest unites all countries, in terms of friendship, and there are no conflicts. I am a huge fan, but never had the opportunity to vote, but I think the best songs have won the contest". Are you aware that you are no the only Armenian in the contest, that there is also an Armenian who is a dancer as part of the Turkish entry? "I think that's cool. In the same way we have Russian dancers who are part of our entry, this is what I think is good about the contest, its perfect". Which countries have you been to promote your entry? "Ukraine, Moldova, Andorra, Russia, Poland, Cyprus and Greece". The press conference ended with the photo opportunity. The next time Andre will rehearse will be at the first dress rehearsal of the Semi final on 17th May from 14:00. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted May 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2006 At 9:30 local time, the arena opened its doors to the press as the first participant, Andre from Armenia, rehearsed on stage. Esctoday.com collected some opinions about Without your love, the stage and the venue itself as well! 'Armenian Sertab' The "Armenian Sertab", as some journalists referred to him during Andre's first rehearsal, brought four female dancers to Athens, as well as a backing singer. While Andre is standing on a big box, his four dancers are dancing around doing a "Houdini-alike chain act", as Peter Walsh from the Irish Sunday World referred to the performance. It took Andre a few times to get his ear monitoring right and to get used to the stage. At his second try, things went much better and he got awarded a nice applause from the present fans and journalists. Spy cam The spy cam, which is being used for the first time at the Eurovision Song Contest, surprised the audience as well. The camera, connected to the four corners of the venue with four metal cables, can not only move to the left, right, front and back of the arena, but also up and down. There are only two of these spy cams in the world. * Check out the gallery of the first Armenian rehearsal here! "If we are allowed to joke here..." During the first press conference at the Olympic Indoor Hall, all people involved with Armenia's first ever participation took a seat behind the table. Asking how popular the Eurovision Song Contest already is in Armenia, Head of Delegation Diana replied; "We're broadcasting the show now for two years in a row and more and more people are watching it, even though it starts around midnight! We received a lot of calls and letters from people asking why we didn't join the competition. So, here we are". Some journalists referred to the similarity of Without your love with Ruslana's winning song Wild dances (2004) and the Turkish elements in the song. The song writer admitted that he never heard Ruslana's song, while the choreographer, who's originally Russian, replied; "If we are allowed to joke here... we took the rythm of Ruslana, the arrangement from Turkey... we're just doing it better" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted May 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2006 http://www.esctoday.com/images/various/dianafromarmenia.jpg We already knew Diana Mnatsakanyan is the Armenian delegation head before, but now we can reveal more about the person behind! Active member Diana is the head of the international relations department of Armenian broadcaster ARMTV. After making ARMTV an associate member of the European Broadcasting Union, she managed to get the Armenian national broadcaster the status of active member last year, which opened the way to Armenian Eurovision Song Contest participation for 2006. Youngest delegation head So far, no news. However, everyone who knows that Diana is 24 years young, it's hard not to admit that she achieved big things already at such a young age. To esctoday.com, Diana spoke out about Andre's first rehearsal on stage, earlier this morning. "I learn a lot from all the other delegations! Everyone seems to be very eager and professional", she said, adding that she is giving Andre "as much as feedback as possible". Esctoday.com welcomes Armenia and Diana, as responsible Head of Delegation, to the Eurovision Song Contest! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marseliatsi_M26 Posted May 23, 2006 Report Share Posted May 23, 2006 Andre's Performance in Athens. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDO5W4VQrF8...re%20eurovision Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ED Posted May 23, 2006 Report Share Posted May 23, 2006 and this guy won the first prize with that performance? does anybody actualy like this performance? Total mockary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stver Broadcasting Inc. Posted May 23, 2006 Report Share Posted May 23, 2006 I guess we can all agree that bribery is still an active means of business in Europe. I'm not a huge fan of Andre nor am I saying this of my Armenianism, I'm saying this out of disbelieve. Andre had a super performance and it was left undone, this can all be attributed to a panhandling jury panel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marseliatsi_M26 Posted May 23, 2006 Report Share Posted May 23, 2006 To sing in front of 150 millions of viewers is not so easy!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marseliatsi_M26 Posted May 23, 2006 Report Share Posted May 23, 2006 Before Andre's performance, the commentator on the French TV said "I remind you that during the Armenian genocide, 1 500 000 Armenians were exterminated. Turkey must recognize this genocide." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted May 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 The Yerkramas: Not Turks Voted for Andre in Turkey 23.05.2006 17:28 GMT+04:00 Print version Send to mail In Russian In Armenian /PanARMENIAN.Net/ The votes of not Turkish population of Turkey influenced the results of the vote at Eurovision-2006 contest. According to the Yerkramas, the newspaper of Armenians of Russia, a reader of the newspaper’s internet version from Ankara, ethnic Armenian reported. In his words, ethnic Turks, not having the right to vote for the Turkish participant at the Eurovision, merely ignored the vote. As a result, most of the voters represented not the Turkish population, but Armenians (including Islamized Armenians and Cryptoarmenians, i.e. those, who conceal their Armenian origins from people around them), Kurds, Greeks, Jews and others. Andre singer, who represented Armenia at Eurovision-2006 was the second best according to the Turkish vote. This was taken as a sensation, taking into account the fact that contemporary Turkey has not recognized the Armenian Genocide in 1915 yet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted May 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 WE GREAT CULTURAL POTENTIAL’ Azerbaijanis Upset by the Elder Brother Armenia’s debut at the Eurovision song contest is still being lively discussed by young people and musicians. It also turned into a target of interesting comments on the part of Turkish and Azerbaijani media. "The 10 points that Turkey gave to Armenian singer threw me into a fit of laughter. The presenters who were distinctively favoring Turkey were at a loss when our ‘brothers’, as they are called in masses, gave Armenians 10 points. Turks merely confused us by this decision especially in the view of recent opposition to ‘genocide’ allegations. The presenters did not even try to find a justification for ‘our elder brother’s’ deed. They sadly kept silent," this was the "hopeless" conclusion of a day.az correspondent on May 22. "We were silently listening to our tunes in Andre’s song, to the music of our tar." In another publication Azerbaijanis try to be more frank: "The Armenians again presented themselves as a nation with high culture. Many TV viewers in our country hoped deep in their hearts that Armenia’s representative Andre will give a bad performance but he performed greatly taking a very high place for a debutant and leaving behind Turkey, France, the Great Britain and other states." The Armenian delegation returned to Yerevan in the morning of May 22 and was warmly welcomed at the airport. Contrary to his first performance at the semi-final, Andre performed brilliantly in the final. "He was first to perform at the semi-final and was not accustomed to the atmosphere. But his second performance was great," TV viewer Anahit Kamalian told daily Azg. "We were at a café watching the live contest on the screen. You should only see how every customer cheered when Andre was receiving the points." Singer Shushan Petrosian is glad and proud of Andre’s victory. "Andre’s song was among the best in this mess of horrible music tastes. I had never watched the Eurovision but this time there was Andre. It was a heavy responsibility for Andre but he reached the goal with honor," she said. Mrs. Petrosian thinks that the Eurovision has to do not with the culture but with the politics, and to prove the contrary the organizers chose a relatively neutral country as winner. For bard Vahan Artsruni also the Eurovision is a low-rated contest as the performance is judged not by a jury but by the spectators. Secondly, this was pop music contest where "the highest standard is not the music but interesting presentation of a song. From this angle, Andre’s performance was not much different from the rest." Artsruni is sure that participation in contests is the only way to present your music to the world, "but there are more serious contests and victories in classical music that are not covered as the Eurovision." When months ago the song was introduced to the Armenian public opinions ranged from super positive response to dissatisfaction with Turkish tunes. In his assessment of Andre’s performance composer Vladilen Balian notes that we have great musical potential "but the doors seem to be slow to open to us." Singer Ofelia Hambardzumian, on her part, said the song was rather difficult to perform but Andre did very well. By Tamar Minasian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted May 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 PEOPLE FAILED TO VOTE EVEN THE FIRST SECONDS Today the final of the 51st international contest Eurovision 2006 will take place in Athens. Armenia, that takes part in this contest for the first time, must take an active part in voting as other participating countries do. However, it is not excluded that we will see the same situation this night as two days ago. Mobile operators ArmenTel and VivaCell could not provide quality connection as a result of which numerous calls from Armenia were not registered. ArmenTel and Vivacell assure that sms messages sent during the first 3 minutes have reached their addressee. However, that is not quite so. Reports on sent messages even for the first few minutes came a day after the semi-finale at 19:30 in the evening. (What an extraordinary efficiency!). They read as follows, “Unfortunately, voting is over. Thank you for your participation.” The question is for what participation. Public TV of Armenia has required mobile operators in Armenia to ensure quality connection during the voting of Eurovision 2006 final. /Panorama.am/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted May 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 WHY DID EUROPEANS CHOOSE THE “MONSTERS”? The Armenian Apostolic church representatives are concerned with the victory of Finnish group Lordi at Eurovision 2006. In a discussion held at Ararat diocese, priest Tovma Andrasyan said that the victory of the “monsters” indicates that Europe is undergoing a phase of decline of moral values. The priest also quoted statistics saying the higher the standard of living in European countries, the more mentally ill they have. “The churches in Scandinavia are empty,” he said, adding that there is no greater sin than indifference. Michael Hambartsumyan, psychologist did not agree with him. In his words, the choice of the Europeans reflected everything that the youth does not agree now. The psychologist suggests taking the performance only as a show and not as moral degradation. “The Finn needed the first place and they reached their aim – serious marketing was conducted beforehand on audience preferences. They understood that there is a need for rock music since Eurovision has long been taken as a contest of pop music. I do not think we have to look for religious origins here,” Hambartsumyan said. /Panorama.am/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aSoldier Posted May 24, 2006 Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 Is it just me, or was Andre's performance the best in the whole contest? I am so shocked with the results... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aSoldier Posted May 24, 2006 Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 Andre's Performance in Athens. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDO5W4VQrF8...re%20eurovision Is there somewhere I can download it from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azat Posted May 24, 2006 Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 and this guy won the first prize with that performance? does anybody actualy like this performance? Total mockary agree 100%. that was a joke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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