Occasionally a band appears that you're just not expecting.

Where else would you find an authentic metal band who really want to get into Eurovision but Fin... no, Moldova.

Corbus Albus and Anna Constantinova are here to haunt your ears.

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Patricia Kaas was one of the most obvious internal selections for Eurovision ever, as well as one of the most professional.

She definitely puts in the hours and miles when touring.

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Occasionally national finals conspire to give a chance to a local gigging group with no studio time or connections with the industry.

In 2009 André Rodrigues got to enjoy his three minutes of fame with a backing band of friends.

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Renton are art school rock from an economic college and a taste for English language songs in Poland.

2009 saw them do a little better than perhaps even they expected.

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She may be wearing turquoise boots, but there's very little Melfest upbeatness about Snälla snälla.

Caroline af Ugglas is a broken-voice woman begging for him not to leave.

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It saddens me that there are several FdC songs that only exist as ninety second cuts on the official website.

One of those is a dub by Lyana aka Liliana Pinheiro. Get your act together RTP and release the whole thing!

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Sunny is sunny sure, but she's all edge and suggestiveness otherwise.

And it turns out that she does know Jack.

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Fraudulent votes! Fraudulent votes all over the place!

Cheating in a public vote is nothing new. When Miguel Cervini was accused he quit in a huff.

He can't half play the guitar, though we'll never know how his song ends.

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You'll know by now that they weren't, in fact, the next Spice Girls.

But for a moment in 2009, armed with a Britney Spears rejected song, Velvet (Inc.) thought they might be.

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ŠokoLedas were a short-lived Lithuanian girl-group made up of two women who weren't in another girl-group.

They could write a song though, even if the temptation to take on a shredding guitar solo was hard to resist.

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Melodifestivalen 2009.

They're back, reconstituted and reformed.

Peak Alcazar.

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This isn't Belarus's 2011 JESC entrant, but another Lidiya Zablotskaya is introducing folktronica into the Eurovision mix along with Kola.

Not that Kola either.

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Alexander Stenerud is stepping out from his band Zuma to have a go at MGP on his own.

A different Alexander won.

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Intars Busulis hates being stuck in traffic.

Even with some clever musical tricks, it turns out the Eurovision watching public don't like to be reminded of traffic jams.

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BIX are old school-punks who got together in Lithuania before the Berlin Wall fell.

Now that the punk to elder statesmen process is complete in 2009, they're trying to represent the country at Eurovision.

Even if their song's a bit old.

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In 2009, Janita has just divorced her manager (who she met when she was 13 and he was 30), cut her hair short, and discovered PJ Harvey.

Was Finland ready for their New York based child star to do something different?

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It's not often that a contestant at Sanremo gets eliminated from the competition by a vote of the orchestra.

That's what happened to fan favourite Dolcenera in 2009.

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When it comes to singing competitions, Tomáš Bezdeda is an old hand despite his age.

Now that Slovakia has its own national finals, he's champing at the bit. Even losing can't bring him down.

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Alexander Panayotov is now on the Ukrainian sanctions list, forbidden from setting foot in the country of his birth.

In 2009, he was claiming to be a superhero, and attempting to represent Ukraine in Moscow, despite having lived in Russia for most of his adult life.

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Not Sinéad and Black Daisy, but Barbora and Red Rose.

Different country, same style, same record company...

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