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Maybe you’re after the last song festival, and the thought that we are completely dedicated itself a year have to wait for the next edition, also plagued by the so-called Post Eurovision Depression, or PED. To do something we strikten the Dutchman Dave Baker to guide us this week through the big Eurovision book, which he wrote as co-author and last year issued. You can find the info and TidBITS like? Then we have good news, because this weekend we raffle off two copies of the book on our facebook page. Today part four of five.

Circus Linda

On 13 May 2000, a major disaster in the Dutch city of Enschede. In the disaster summarized a storage space with fireworks by the company S.E. Fireworks flame and fell 23 dead. More than 950 people were injured and 200 homes were completely destroyed. ‘ On Saturday night may 13, around ten o’clock in the evening, after Spain, the thirteenth country had occurred, came an end to the Eurovision story by Linda Wagenmakers. The plug was pulled from the tv broadcast because of the fireworks disaster in Enschede took place earlier that day. ‘ The edition of for the Dutch was a very surreal. ‘ Only later that evening they saw on the Swedish journal what images and which are themselves then the teeth at all shocked by what was going on. ‘ Striking: many Dutch people switched over to the VRT that evening or looked further on the German channel.

The fragile link with the charts

Why at certain times Eurovision songs scored significantly less in the Dutch charts? One of the people, which answers this question, is Johan van Slooten. Villanueva is a former writer for the radio broadcast of the Top 40 and compiler of many a Hitdossier (series of books containing all the songs from the Dutch Top 40 and Tipparade) and tells: ‘ the Eurovision winners published after 1987 were good, but no real pop hits. In the late 1980s was the hip disappeared. It was obstinately stuck to that darn Orchestra giving a true modern pop song with dance-or rapinvloeden could not possibly be sent. Many countries remained so songs on the Orchestra writing. Think, for example, of Maywood, our own entry from 1990. ‘

The magic of Treble

Great are the plans of the Limburg girls trio if they win in the Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 with force majeure. In total no less than 72% of all votes they gained. They want Europe to pack in the same way as they have done two years earlier in Netherlands. By to act anywhere they score in 2004 with Ramaganana a number-1-hit in Netherlands and Belgium. But with all sides on the Treble is in Athens, but hardly the good side. Cornald Maas calls the entry of Treble the deepest depth point from Dutch history in the Eurovision Song Contest. ‘ Really, ‘ he says. ‘ Not that girls and not their vocals. But everything around it was awful. It didn’t look. ‘

Tomorrow part five of five.