EDU review:
With folky-pop votes going to Norway and dancey-pop votes going to Azerbaijan & Turkey, Iceland profitted as the stand-out ballad of 2009. 18 year old Yohanna was pitch perfect and put everything into a sweet and moving song of 'he done her wrong.'
Friðrik Ómar (Eurobandid, 2008) makes a welcome return on back-up!
What were they thinking putting Yohanna in a toilet doll dress?
At least Norway saved Iceland the quandry of how to host Eurovision in a bankrupt nation (phew!)
place: 2nd score: 218
douze: 12 to Norway
HISTORY
Females do better than the lads for Iceland. Yohanna in 2009 (2nd) was brilliant but outplayed by a fiddler, while Selma in 1999 (2nd) was brilliant and lost to ABBA impersonators.
2008
Eurobandið
64
14th
2007
Eirikur Hauksson
77
27th
2006
Silvía Nótt
62
27th
2005
Selma
52
30th
2004
Jónsi
16
19th
2003
Birgitta Haukdal
81
9th
NEWS
NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH
Look for Iceland's voters favouring Denmark and Norway early and Sweden in the Grand Final.
ICELAND
