Poland will be represented in Helsinki buy The Jet Set singing ‘Time To Party’.  There aren’t many songs like this in this year’s Eurovision, and I think this will bode quite well for it.  A little bit of rap and a little bit of pop didn’t do the UK many favours last year, but this is a good tune, it’s catchy and will make a good impression.  Diaspora votes will help this out - I don’t know much about the rest of the UK, but there certainly are a lot of Polish people living and working in Northern Ireland – and this is sure to pick up their votes.  The song’s good, but it will need a strong vocal and eye catching performance to do well, although, Poland have sat right smack bang on the outside of the top ten (11^th place in both 2005 and 2006) – so with a few more points thrown at this it has every chance of qualification.

 

 

Poland have a tune that's very different to anything else in the Semi-Final, but I still doubt this is strong enough to make the Final.  In a field where roughly a third of the songs are going to qualify you really do need to have that extra something, which this lacks.  I do like it though, and it should be a fairly enjoyable performance - just not one to vote for!

 

 

Poland failed to make the Final.

 

 

It was always going to be hit or miss for Poland at this year's Eurovision, and coming in a tantalising 11^th place in the Semi for two years in a row, the stakes were high and everyone was wondering if they would slip into the top ten.  Everyone was wondering, that is, until they had to witness the Polish performance, after which it was much of a cert that they weren’t quite going to do better than their two previous attempts.  The performance was a bit of a mess, and the vocals on behalf of both members of the Jet Set weren’t wonderful.  When things look and sound just OK it doesn’t tend to bode very well at Eurovision, so it was no surprise to see Poland finish mid table in 14^th place.  In any case, predicting 15^th – 17^th wasn’t right, but I certainly was close.