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Eurovision 2008: Dima Bilan - Webchat!!!
Dima will appear on RTÉ (Irish broadcaster) programme The Late Late Show hosted by Pat Kenny tomorrow night.
Before that however, Dima will be on RTÉ.ie for a webchat on Friday May 30th between 14:30 to 15:30 CET (13:30 to 14:30 local time) to answer fan's questions.
Relive the Webchat here.
One day later, he will be appearing at the UK Eurovision Winners Party in London. The party features a line up of Dima Bilan, Ani Lorak, Bucks Fizz, Sonia and Nicki French. Remaining tickets are priced at £12 in advance from the official website or via the ticketweb telephone booking line on 08700 600 100. Music will be provided by special Eurovision DJ Dave Simmons.
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oh crip i miss it 
INTERESTING HOW OTHER COUNTRIES "SEE" ... EUROVISION
and how they also thought that ... the "WRONG SONG" won
at the Final.
Click on article written by Australian ESC correspondents and READ
their objective opinions on the SONGS of Russia, Ukraine, Iceland, Sweden,
and, especially, the SONGS of Armenia 
, Spain , France and GREECE 
:
http://www.defamer.c(...)rch?query=eurovision
click on title: DEFAMER AUSTRALIA'S SLIGHTLY BELATED EUROVISION WRAP UP
KALOMIRA "Secret Combination"
--> http://www.kalomoira.com
I insist that this song wasn't the best one in the contest.The song of Greece was even better.
@ Siou x - You stole my words! I agree with everything you wrote. Lordi gave the ESC the necessary shock! We'd had just about enough of dance rubbish. Dima is a great winner - unlike many past ones.
he looked so surprised with his cheeky smile, each time he got the 12 points from ex soviets countries. if he was surprised we were not. but deep down in his heart he was expecting it.
in 2006 his song wasn't the best either. I honestly didn't really get believe until eurovision night were everything looked fantastic and it was a deserved winner even though the majority of the big votes were taken from ex ussr countries
i just wonder what the public reaction will be in ireland - indifference?
INTERESTING HOW OTHER COUNTRIES "SEE" ... EUROVISION
and how they also thought that ... the "WRONG SONG" won.
Click on article written by Australian ESC correspondents:
http://www.defamer.c(...)ovision_wrap_up.html
READ THE ARTICLE about what they have to say about the SONGS
of Russia, Ukraine, Iceland, Sweden, Armenia , Spain , France
and Greece .
KALOMIRA "Secret Combination"
http://www.kalomoira.com
& mina
very funny...... but iam sure u know wot i mean......
at least be honest with ur self
I think you have a to be an Irish resendent to sumbit a question because I've tried to dubmit a question, and it simply would let me.
@Allan A.:
You´re right! People simply don´t vote. Laziness costs us dearly.
Super Espabila:
homophobia in Russia? Are u sure?
And OMG that Russian immigrants did it again LOL
Juries back! Sweden would have won!
blue alibi:
If Andorra or Cyprus had won, we would have a tiny country winner & that would be cool.
i wonder............
wot would have happened if the winning song represented portugal? malta? cyprus? belguim? the netherlands? ireland? uk? andorra? etc....
some things cant be more obvious in life no??
Sorry mates, but there is no way i am going to Moscow next year...
Unless, of course, they really resolve their OPEN homophobia.
I am clear about that.
cpbija 89
i agree, with you!!
and that's what i'm saying, he deserved to win more in 2006 than now, because this year it wasn't the best song!!
if you compare "believe" to previous winnners, it's the worst....
also, for god's sake, Ruslana had everything, cool personality as well, she was friendly, no bodyguards!!
and she got "gold" in greece, and she got 280 points from only 36 countries, and the song became a hit, and it wasn't because of the show, for god's sake, people got the album because of the eurovision show?
also, if you know 10 countries are going to give 10's and 12's to Russia how the h** can it not be a favorite for winning....?
btw, why didn't Greece and Cyprus gave 12 to Russia, but only 7?? because there were better songs(like Armenia)!!
Ruslana got 10's ehehehehh 
When will u ppl quit whining about diaspora voting?!!!
The way u talk about diaspora here it seems like Turks dominate Germany, Armenians have replaced the native population in Belgium, Netherlands and France and Greek ppl count 4 50% of all of the Western European countries... get really ppl... the immigrants don`t count 4 more than 3-15%max of any western European country (and even then it`s not just a single group, but ppl from many countries most of them outside of Europe)
so if the minority can do it so can u... just stop whining, stop being cheap and if u really wanna make a change start watching, start caring and use ur money 2 vote, VOTE 4 Christ sake instead of coming and crying here about the mean mean immigrants that have taken over ur countries and r outvoting u
molitva last year was 100times better than believe but also i like believe too.
after all i can write just this:
dima i hope ur song will make a big succes all round the world and u will never come back to eurovision.
but im sure he is going to come back. his song is not strong ballad and maybe im like a stone but believe can touch my soul at all. maybe i dont believe enough in his song LOL
GOD LOCK DIMA! wish u all the best in ur life!
btw some people connected his name with some kind of drugs - can someone explain me why? is it just a gossip or what?
I agree with people that his song this year wasn't as brilliant as in 2006- but I like DIma- and so I'm pleased for both Russia and Dima that he won!
Well done to everybody in the Russian Deligation- and I hope that Moscow 2009 will as great as Belgrade 2008 (IMO Belgrade was amazing)
I want to hear "Believe" in Russian because his English accent sucks a lot! (impassibal! LOL)
When the LORDI monster rockers WON at the ESC 2006 ATHENS,
Dima's placing was 2nd runner-up .... a.k.a the No.1 Loser ...
he thought he would try again, this year, to reap the "benefits" of
whatever... ESC fan base he had left from 2006??? Hmmm!
(... but if Dima wanted to compete SO BAD(!!) and sing in English (again!!),
he should have worked on his ... IMPOSSIBLY BAD English accent)
I know he's russian, but he cannot sing OR speak
well in English. The sad news is he that is NOT even trying.
Did anyone really want to see his consistently ... SOUR face 
,
....experience his ARROGANT attitude 
and watch that ... ANGRY vein
on his neck ready to pop open at any moment?
Hey, if russian woman think Dima is sexy (!!?!), it is fine,
but I certainly cannot see it.
"Never let you go" (2006) (FACT: The stage show with the white
piano and the rose petals with the ballerina inside was the sole
concept of a GREEK man (choreographer/director), Fokas
Evangelinos 
)
Since March 2008, when I first heard this song,
I had written comments that it was nothing special and
was a typical run-of-the-mill SONG made ... watchable because
that same (!!) GREEK MAN (Fokas Evangelinos was also behind the
... 2008 concept of Dima's show (skater, violinist, candle and especially the
KNEELING LIKE ANNA VISSI (Greece 2006) WHILE SINGING routine, etc).
This year ... the WRONG SONG won.
Great - good luck to Dima and let's hope for a strong ESC 2009 !
Lucian:
In the final there was BIG interest in Spain so i think thousands of Spaniards voted. On the other hand, in the semifinal there wasn't interest because Spain didn't take part. Gisela's single is on Spanish charts!
Diva Belan doesn't speak English...how will he communicate in Ireland? Damp!
@ leni tao
Dima has also got a World Music Award in London 2006, for Never let you go.
I think he should win then. If he won then, it would be deserved victory, and now we would have another winner. It was a mistake a victory was given to Lordi, I remember 90% of fans didnt like that song, and I thin Dima won not only because of Soviet votes but because he came back again after loosing from stupid monsters. But this year there were better songs than his. As I said, he should win then and not now
He show "fu*k you" for Poland... I hate you Dima, but I love Russia
for the sake of god, he got points from 36/42, where Ruslana got points from all countries except one!!
also, 10/42 countries gave 10 or 12 because they where lovely Russia family, omg, everyone knows why Dima Bilan won, it's not just us!!
Ruslana got 280 points from 36 countries, where worthless Dima only got 272 from 42 countries!!
this shows that Ruslana victory in 2004, wasn't polical of smth, but because of a great song, great performance, which Wild Dances became the hit of summer, and reached World Music Awards!!
low-class song "Believe" will go nowhere.....
visite http://clubmusicportugal.blogspot.com /
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36 countries out of 42 voting countries gave points to Russia, and Dima Bilan is not a deserving winner? Only arrogant fans here can dare to claim that their opinion is superior to that of millions of ordinary ESC viewers and televoters, for whom the ESC is intended anyway, because without the viewing numbers there would be no ESC.
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