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“Our song for Liverpool” is certain: At the ESC preliminary round in Cologne, Lord of the Lost beat the competition with “Blood & Glitter”. The hard rock band will perform at the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 on May 13th.
The jury’s evaluation was relatively unequivocal: While Ikke Hipgold almost always received one point for his song “Lied mitgutes Text”, Will Church took the lead with “Hold On” – closely followed by Anica Russo and René Miller .
Eurovision Song Contest 2023: These acts competed in the ESC preliminary round for Germany
There were eight acts to choose from and they competed in the following order:
TRONG – “Dare To Be Different”
Rene Miller – “Concrete Heart”
Anica Russo – “Once Upon A Dream”
Lonely Spring – “Misfit”
Will Church – “Hold On”
Patty Gurdy – “Melodies Of Hope”
Ikke Hipgold – “Song with good lyrics”
Lord Of The Lost – “Blood & Glitter”
ESC preliminary decision 2023: “Our song for Liverpool” was chosen
50 percent of the points were awarded by a five-person expert jury from Switzerland, the Netherlands, Finland, Spain, Lithuania, the Ukraine, Austria and Great Britain. They awarded a total of 368 points. The other 50 percent of the points came from the German audience, who were able to vote before the show. The same percentage of points were awarded by phone call, SMS and online voting.
In the morning, the band Frida Gold had to cancel their participation at short notice. The singer Alina Süggeler dropped out due to illness, so the performance could not take place. All votes that had previously been received for Frida Gold in online voting were therefore invalid.
In 2022 Ukraine won the Eurovision Song Contest. Due to the Ukraine war, however, the show cannot take place in the winning country as usual. It was therefore decided to hold the ESC 2023 in Liverpool.
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