Show #187

Review season starts next week, and we’re chatting to our new Superfan Panel members ahead of the long road to this years contest in Liverpool!
Our triple play takes us to Israel for three from the archives, whilst your fan favourite choice is a classic 70s entry. Plus all the very latest Eurovision News from the last seven days…

This Weeks Highlights

Subwoolfer

2022 Superfan Choice

Subwoolfer is a British-Norwegian pop duo formed in 2021. The two members perform in black suits with white shirts with distinctive yellow wolf-head masks and yellow gloves and ties and go by the pseudonyms Keith and Jim. They represented Norway in 2022.

Mocedades

Fan Favourite

Mocedades is a Spanish singing group from the Basque Country, who represented Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1973 with the hit song 'Eres Tú'

Israel has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 44 times since making its debut in 1973. Israel was able to enter the contest as the Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA) was an active member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which was responsible for the event. The IBA was succeeded as the broadcaster in charge of the Israeli entry by the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation (IPBC/Kan) in 2018. Israel has won the contest four times, and has hosted the contest in Jerusalem twice in 1979 and 1999. Israel hosted the contest for the third time in Tel Aviv in 2019. Since the introduction of the semi-finals in 2004, Israel has failed to reach the final six times. In 2005, Shiri Maimon gave the country its tenth top five result, finishing fourth. Having failed to qualify for the final for four consecutive years (2011–14), Israel reached the final for the first time in five years, with Nadav Guedj finishing ninth in 2015. The country had participated in the final every year since, including a fourth victory courtesy of Netta with “Toy” in 2018. The qualification streak ended in 2022, when Michael Ben David failed to progress to the final.

Israeli singer Eden Alene participated in the seventh season of the Israeli singing competition Rising Star (HaKokhav HaBa), achieving first place on 4 February 2020. As the winner, she was supposed to represent Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 to be held in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The four finalist songs for her were “Savior in the Sound”, “Roots”, “Rakata” and “Feker Libi”. Eventually the song “Feker Libi” was picked, which contains four languages English, Arabic, Hebrew and Amharic. However, on 18 March 2020, the event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

On 22 March 2020, it was announced that she had been internally chosen to represent Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021. In January 2021, her three candidate songs were revealed – “Ue La La”, “La La Love” and “Set Me Free”. Eventually, on 25 January 2021, the song “Set Me Free” was picked.

On 18 May 2021, she performed 12th during the first semi-final, following Belgium and preceding Romania. She qualified to the final on 22 May. In addition to that, she broke the all-time record for the highest note in Eurovision history, hitting a B6 whistle note during the first semi-final of Eurovision 2021. In the final, she scored 93 points, finishing 17th out of 26.

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