The singer is very enthusiastic. In an interview with Peacock he says he can not remember what he did on stage. “I seem once ‘come on’ to have called and ‘I love you, baby, but I do not remember.”
Douwe Bob and his band took Tuesday night at the Globe Arena in Swedish capital against acts from seventeen other countries. The ten artists who managed to bring home the most points of the national juries and the European TV audience, occurred Saturday with sixteen other acts in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest.
Besides the Netherlands also qualified Azerbaijan, Russia , Hungary, Croatia, Austria, Armenia, Czech Republic, Cyprus and Malta.
Russia’s popular with bookmakers, but the singer is not very impressed by the performance of the country. “It’s so different, I could interest me out there,” says Douwe Bob. “It’s a little short-sighted. Dutch do it well with their ‘less is more’.”
Silence
The most talked about part of the action during Douwe Bob the first semifinal was ten seconds of silence, halfway through the song. During the silence that Douwe Bob dropped his song, the audience applauded enthusiastically. “It is not a commemoration should do everyone what he wants,” says the singer.
Douwe Bob was on stage accompanied by his regular backing band, consisting of among others keyboardist Matthijs van Duijvenbode, organist Thijs Beans Krezip and former guitarist JP Hoekstra.
In a poll on the live blog NU.nl gave 79 percent of our readers said they expected Douwe Bob went through to the final of the Eurovision Song Contest. In total more than 7300 votes cast
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Last year
last year Netherlands was not represented in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest. Trijntje Oosterhuis did with her performance of Walk Along failed to reach the final.
In 2014, The Common Linnets knew with Calm after the storm have to save until the final battle. Eventually ended Ilse DeLange and Waylon second, the best Dutch result since the profits of Teach-In in 1975.
The Year for The Common Linnets took Anouk there with Birds for the Netherlands again competed in the finals after years. Anouk ended in the finals in ninth place.
Qualifying
Thursday found the two semi-finals. In the preliminary round again fight eighteen submissions to ten finals tickets. France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Britain and host country Sweden have already secured a place in the final battle
Video:. Douwe Bob sings Slowdown during Contest
Douwe Bob through to Eurovision final
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