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UK Eurovision Preview Party
United Kingdom: Biggest ever Eurovision party in London
The event aims to put the United Kingdom back on the map for Eurovision promotion tours and attract British media to cover the competition and visiting artists. A special Green Room will be created for media to meet the artists that perform at the event, conduct interviews and raise the profile of the Eurovision Song Contest in the United Kingdom. Artists will also be meeting the fans in attendance.
This is the single biggest Eurovision Song Contest event that has taken place in the country in many years, and has been organised at very short notice by an incredible team of Eurovision fans and people working for good will. The venue is one of the prime night clubs in London, and can host up to 1500 people.
A whole website for the event has been created and will be regularly updated with information about the artists that come to the event. A media launch and campaign to attract British and international press, radio and television is also in place. You can visit the website now at www.ukeurovision.com
Tickets are now onsale via the official website, through the Scala website, from the Scala box office or directly from www.ticketweb.co.uk. Tickets can also be bought from Ticketweb by phone on +44 8700 600 100. Tickets are priced at £10 in advance, any remaining tickets will be charged at £15 on the door.
Fans are invited to bring their flags, dress up and make the most of what promises to be the biggest and best Eurovision Song Contest Party ever seen in the UK. Stay tuned to esctoday.com and the UK Eurovision Preview Party website for information about additional artists signing up to the event over the next three weeks.
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This is great news. The Scala is a fantastic venue & if they can recreate the atmosphere of euroclub then this will be a wonderful night. I'm missing out on eurovision for the first time in a few years, so this will be the next best thing.
Garry Chelsea
Eurostar stops at St Pancras International. Not Kings Cross!
I really don't know why people are so fussed about our big names from the UK. Sending people with talent I can understand, but nagging us to send the likes of Leona Lewis (even if that would be fantastic,) is almost like inviting us to come and win hands down. There's a lot of big names all over the world who actually aren't very talented at all or just have downright rubbish music.
I don't mean to spam, but I am going to ask Bentley Jones to put himself forward to the BBC for next year. His music is absolutely amazing and Eurovision 2009 would fit quite nicely in his career timeline, he hasn't got anything to lose yet and his album expected out sometime this year is set to really storm the British charts (I hope!) Check www.bentleyjones.com to listen to his stuff and tell me he'd be awful in Eurovision!
Having said that one exception to my example, I see no reason why Aqua wouldn't try for Denmark despite being internationally well known albeit the heyday 10 years ago. I mean their musical output has not really diversified much beyond the bubblegum has it so they can't be "too big" for ESC?
A comeback Katrina-style.
@ JK
"That is partly why we don't send big stars to eurovision, because if a artist has made it big in the UK charts, eurovision is only gonna put a black mark on their career."
TBH, most stars from other countries who have managed to succeed internationally also need not bother with the ESC.
Did you ever think there was any chance of Norway sending a-ha, Sweden with Ace of Base / Roxette / The Cardigans, Germany having Scorpions / Cascada / Nena or Greece trying with Demis Roussos? The UK is n ot the only nation reluctant to send big names, although you do wonder what if Leona Lewis had tried eurovision BEFORE x-factor considering it was a TV show that gave her the big break - and unlike other alumni she ain't done badly. hasnt 'bleeding love' got to no.1 in something like 30 countries now including the USA? that girl does have talent.
I would consider going.......but I will be in the slightly more exciting environs of Las Vegas, and with Van Halen @ Mandalay Bay and Def Leppard @ The Palms...... I might have a better offer. 
Honestly, I'd be up for a eurovision night out if in the mood maybe something like this next year?
the part that burned down was the main site where all the stalls are under the railway arches just after the canal
@mike: dude for me its my fave place, i was lucky enough to travel throughout europe last year and London was the only place where i thought hey i dont wanna go back to Sydney lol...
lol u should be happy some1 is sayin something good about the UK for a change on this site 
btw no1 answered my camden markets question 
I haven't been watching any repeats. I'm still a teenager and it's only what my mother's told me.
ben kings cross is hardly gotham city, remember that its the place where the eurostar brings thousands of people into the u.k. the scala is a great nightclub, and kings cross is probably safer than many cities and villages in the rest of the u.k
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Best city in the world ? Get real ! But I bet this is a great great event 
Have fun whoever is lucky enough to go.
what a load of rubbish. kings cross is as safe as anywhere in london. scala is a great venue and i cant wait for the party.
ben, i suggest you stop watching repeats of 1980s news at ten shows and go out in the real world. its modern london, not gothem city
I just got an answer, and there will be a strict door policy with ID checks, so you do have to be 18, or you'll get sent away at the door with or without a ticket.
Normally I would like to come to a party like this, however I can't help but think that in a Kings Cross nightclub on a Friday night, is it going to be anything other than a raucous drunken evening of noise? That's not the kind of Eurovision party I'd want to attend, whether or not Euroband and Ani Lorak will be performing there. =(
OMG this is amazing, what a treat for UK fans! Who normally get left out of any promo tours. And two of the best entires this year performing, best news on this site in a long time!
they'll be hard pressed to get more than 100 or so, especially at £10 a head...and the Scala is very big. I hope they know what they're doing
Cue the anti-Uk posts!!
I would like to peep my head round the corner to come to this, especially to meet Euroband. I just don't have anybody to bring along. =(
I've e-mailed to ask about age restrictions.
Nick Oh
Big UK stars laugh and scoff at Eurovision so why would you want them to participate?
@garry: i adore that drug fuelled idiot lol
damn u esc today this article has just mad me wanna come back to london even more!!! argh damn u londoners living in the best damn city in the world???? hey big question, wen they sed camden markets burned down, was it the shitty ones or the stable markets?????
'nick i would rather send someone like javine that a drug fuelled idiot like amy winehouse! shes hardly a great representative of the u.k
So what... Maybe they'll put some real interest and effort in chosing a decent representative, with a good song. Never heard a good, catchy song from UK in years...Only crap ones, childish an not commercial, like Gemini, Javine, Daz Sampson, Scootch and this year...Andy Abraham.... This is too much! UK is doomed to the bottom of the Final, until they'll put a real effort... It's ironic, U know...Since the british music market is one of the biggest in the Europe, not to mentioning in the world... So many great artists like Amy Winehouse and the Sugababes and Leona Lewis and Mika and more... And they send all UK's music rejects.......
UK loves Eurovision!!!!
i'd love to see eurobandid
i bet u have 2 be 18 though :/
maybe next year
WOW Amazing Ani Lorak, Eurobandid, Paul how fab!!what a great nite that will be!
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