Lordi-uutiset maailmalla

LInkkejä uutisiin:

The Observer http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1780007,00.html

"Any doubts that the Eurovision Song Contest is still a squeaky clean, bubble-gum pop fiesta were laid to rest last night when judges across the Continent voted overwhelmingly for Lordi, a hitherto barely known but outrageously monstrous heavy-metal band from Finland.
With their ghoulish prosthetic faces and demon-red eyes, the Finnish fivesome may not have projected the most flattering image of the Nordic nation, but their victory will end Finland's 'trauma' of coming last in nearly every contest it has ever entered.

'I hope what we have done here will prove that we don't eat babies,' the fire-spewing group's gargantuan-sized frontman, 'Mr Lordi', told The Observer. 'We've always been 110 per cent serious about our act even though in my country so many people have said such terrible things about us because we've got horns protruding from our heads.'


Sunday Times http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2190668.html

"ZOMBIE rock rules. The Eurovision song contest was turned on its head last last night when a Finnish death metal group thrashed the middle-of-the-road competition to become the runaway winners of the competition.
While the British contender flopped and appeared destined for obscurity, the flame of cultural innovation passed to a pink-eyed rocker flailing across the stage in a set of 8ft bat wings.

European viewers voted Lordi’s song Hard Rock Hallelujah a monster-masked head above the big ballads and catchy pop tunes usually associated with the annual cheesefest. Clearly Finns ain’t what they used to be.


BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4998186.stm

"A Finnish "horror rock" group who dress in monster costumes have pulled off a surprise win at the 51st Eurovision Song Contest in Athens.
European viewers voted for Lordi's song Hard Rock Hallelujah in a show that is normally associated with catchy pop and big ballads."


New York Times (AP) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/21/world/21finland.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

"In what some fans called a stunning upset, a Finnish heavy metal band with monster masks and apocalyptic lyrics won the Eurovision Song Contest late Saturday.

The band, Lordi, caused a bit of a national identity crisis in Finland, where opponents accused it of devil worship and cringed at the thought that it might win."


CNN http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/05/21/russia.eurovision.ap/index.html

"One day after five Finns in monster masks edged out a Russian heartthrob at Europe's largest and most-watched pop music contest, some Russians complained Sunday that the vote was skewed against their country.

Some callers to the Ekho Moskvy radio station proclaimed Dima Bilan's superiority to the Finnish group Lordi; one aggrieved woman said the result was the latest in a series of anti-Russian moves by Europeans."


Reuters http://today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=musicNews&storyID=2006-05-20T233236Z_01_L20700119_RTRIDST_0_MUSIC-LEISURE-EUROVISION-WINNER-DC.XML

"ATHENS (Reuters) - Finland was the surprise winner of the 51st Eurovision song contest on Saturday with the monster-themed rock band Lordi beating 23 other competitors.

Lordi scored 292 points from telephone voters in 38 countries with its song "Hard Rock Hallelujah" in a performance in Greece that both shocked and amused viewers."