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Tonight: first semi final in Malta
The show
Seven songs will be presented tonight. Out of the total of 56 songs in the eight semi finals, an expert jury will select 15 songs for the national final on 7th February while another five songs will be chosen by televoting. Valerie Vella will host the show. The show starts at 21:15 CET and will be broadcast on TVM.
Webcast
The webcast of TVM can be found here, here and here.
Participants
Composer/Lyricist in brackets.
- Ludwig Galea ft. Fidela tal-Bambinu - Lament (Philip Vella)
- Dominic Cini - I'm in heaven (Elton Zarb/Rita Pace)
- Classic Rebels - Tonight at the opera (Ralph Siegel/Bernd Meinunger as 'John O'Flynn')
- Klinsmann - Butterfly sky (Klinsmann Coleiro/Joe Julian Farrugia)
- Talitha Dimech - Earth & sky (Philip Vella/Gerard J. Borg)
- Rosman Pace - One million ways (Rosman Pace)
- Francesca Borg - Falling in love (Jason Paul Cassar/Mario J. Farrugia)
Morena represented Malta in the second semi final in Belgrade, where she finished 14th with Vodka. The country will take part in one of the semi finals in the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow.
Related polls
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- Albanian selection concluded: did you like the Festivali i kenges 47?
- Which kind of national selection finds the best song for Eurovision?
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WHAT A BAD START. ONLY ONE DECENT SONG THAT WAS ROSMAN PACE, LETS HOPE OTHERS WILL BE BETTER
I don't get the sound :-(
Does anyone have a working link????
Big THANK YOU in advance
klinsmaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaannnnnnnn XD
The countries are so eager this year, it's unbelieveable!
please make it a nice write-up with descriptions of what the people wore, what they did, the genre of the song. It doesn't do me much for me if all it says is "i liked the song" "i didnt like this song" lol
i hope itll be repeated
is it me or isnt it a bit early to get into national finals season?
Lets see if Malta will return to good entries after three years of rubbish.
chiara or miriam chrisitne will be the best choice.we need to be in finals again..we need to hear songs first though.MALTAMUST WIN..TO HAVE THE BIGGEST EUROVISION EVER..AND WE HAVE WHERE TO HOST THE CONTEST..MONTEKRISTO LUQA IS NEW AND MILLIONS OF PEOPLE STAY IN IT...ALSO MFCC TA QALI.MALTA WELCOMES ISLE OF MTV TWICE..WHY NOT EUROVIISON?
excellent! cant wait to hear the songs by phillip,gerard and Ralph!
From this heat I'm interested to hear Ludwig Galea ft. Fidela tal-Bambinu! 
I always have some high expectations for Malta, they always have some great songs in their nfs. I really don't like Klinsmann though 
FINALLY!!! 
I'm hoping Malta's heats will be a bit more enjoyable to watch than the ear-splitting Bulgarian tosh we've had to endure the past few weeks. I dare not tempt fate and say we will get quality tonight, but you never know....
Poor old Malta, every year the same fuss and nonsense and all they come up with is a bland over the top pile of S***e!!!
Ever heard less is more?
how many goes to the final from this group?
I'll try to watch it but, like my friend, Jonny, I'm mostly looking forward to Chiara's performance
04. Rock & Rise - Klinsmann
(Philip Vella, Gerard J. Borg)
This will be the song which he will be singing tonight as he swapped it with his other entry.
Gd Luck interesting show tonight.
Ludwig Galea ft. Fidela tal-Bambinu and Rosman peace i sure they are good 
I probably won't be in tonight so I doubt i'll be watching it
I look forward to seeing Chiara's performance especially
looking forward for:
Klinsmann rock & rise
Ludwig & fidela tal bambinu lament
talitha earth and sky
and rosman pace one million ways
classic rebels tonight at the opera
So it's tomorrow night then?
@Marcus
I hope you do a report like the Bulgarian heats with the genre and description of the song (what they wore, what happened, not so much if you liked it). It makes it so much easier to add to Wikipedia
I hope a repeat will be available because I'll be watching X Factor. Otherwise I'll settle for the live report. =)
Are the songs going to be performed live or just sort of.. showcased? and I still don't understand how the public are supposed to pick 5 songs over 8 weeks.
WE wait and see...HOPE WE START WITH GOOD SONGS...
@ neverstoptheeuropop
Yes, of course. All times are CET.
When you say "tonight", you mean Saturday, right? Because it's still late Friday night where I am...
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