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But here are my personal votes: 12 pts. - The Stone Roses have played the by far worst concert I've ever been to, but I still love their music, I would have selected She Bangs the Drums instead, but still a great song and I'm really sad that it didn't end up better. 11 pts. - What can I say? Congratulations! I'm not always a big fan of the "electro swing" idea, but this one put me in a great mood. 10 pts. - Morten Harket has one of the greatest vocals of popular music (if you ask me). I would have prefered some A-ha song, but he has some very decent solo songs as well and this is a beauty. 9 pts. - Beautiful vocals and beautiful song 8 pts. - I hated this one the first time (not quite enough to cut it, though) but it really grew on me, especially the chorus. 7 pts. - I actually think this was the first song of this year to get stuck in my mind. Luckily for fine reasons. 6 pts. - Well. A very fine song that went up and down during my time trying to decide. Never really listened that much to the song though it's pretty famous in Denmark as well. 5 pts. - Started as my main contender for breaking the top 3 and I still really like the celtic style and her voice, but when I heard it some more times, it felt a bit too much like the same over and over, though still very nice. 4 pts. - Not the best of best, but I enjoyed the song and. Very clearly influenced by some of the greats of british music, the song makes me think of both The Verve and David Bowie, Too bad that it didn't end up with any points from us. 3 pts. - A nice, calm song. Folk music with some more modern inspiration. 2 pts. - I feel really sad that this one ended up 2nd to last. Maybe not the most modern song, but I really enjoyed the vocals and the piano. 1 pt. - I feel ashamed by myself for only giving Abba 1 point. But I'm really more of a "The Visitors" kind of guy and Mamma Mia simply didn't feel like the right thing for me this time. My reserves were , , and while , , and were in the mix as well.

Be careful with your dicky ticker!

Oh yeah. Î need some more sleep after that after party. Not looking forward to @Wumo seeing the bill

Pretty good? I believe we've had 2 songs in Danish (Kris Herman and CV Jørgensen)

The committee never died. We were betrayed once but then showed our power by winning the contest! Oh wait...

I would agree there. I think this is the first time I didn't give them any points (tough they were a reserve), but I believe that New Zealand is the country that has given me the most amazing songs that I didn't know before.

Nah. I've got a seat beside Seamus and @Wumo pays the bill

What can I say? Drinks are on @Wumo at the after party

Family first! But here I am

Train problems? We never have those!

Way ahead of ya

First of all... It's more than 3½ years old I don't even remember that and therefore can't really say what happened. But well. Berlingske is rather right-leaning, but none the less respectable, and I have great respect for Tinne who wrote that article.

Åbyhøj - Photo: RhinoMind - Wiki As our final host city, we can welcome @Glen, @hckosice and @Finnator123 to Aabyhøj, the lovely suburb to Aarhus and hometown of the defending TISC Open champion, Tina Dickow. Aabyhøj is a rather new place only dating from 1880, as a part of the Eastern suburbs of Aarhus, where it grew from the more than 1000 years older Åby (the city by the stream) and was a part of Aaby municipality. Aaby was a harbor before changing conditions made it impossible to sail up the stream, making Aarhus harbor necessary. The history of Aabyhøj is really the same as many other suburbs in Denmark. It started as farm lands, but as Aarhus grew in the 1800s, the areas surrounding did as well with housing for mainly workers, but also more wealthy people. Åbyhøj Kirke - Photo: RhinoMind - Wiki Aabyhøj has had some decent success in basketball winning the women’s league twice and finished 3rd last year. Most famous people from the town are musicians, but AGF-legend John Stampe should be mentioned as well. Åbyhøj Park - Photo: RhinoMind - Wiki The most well-known thing in the area is where the annual Northside Festival is held, but the small Aaby Park is also worth a stroll and you can take a canoe ride along the stream. But let’s admit it. Even though we don’t have much time left, you will most likely check out some of the attractions of Aarhus, with Den Gamle By within walking distance.

Really didn't know that people knew Dizzy that well

It's the most wonderful time of the year!

Kolding Station - Photo: S.Juhl - Wiki With the Grand Final getting close, we can welcome @dezbee2008, @Olympian1010, @thepharoah and @DaniSRB to Kolding, hometown of Blaue Blume who competed at the 2015 Annual Contest. Kolding dates to the second half of the 1100s and for most of the medieval times it was one of the most important cities of the country, including having the castle Koldinghus as an occasional Royal residence for a few hundred years. Due to wars and Plague the city suffered and had trouble growing due to taxes. During the Napoleonic wars, some Spanish mercenaries started a fire at Koldinghus by accident burning major parts down to the ground. Only in the 1890’s restoration of the castle began, finishing about a 100 years later. During these years the city grew steadily becoming the 7th largest city of our country. Koldinghus - Photo: Hubertus - Wiki Kolding is most known for its men’s handball team who has won the Danish Championships a record 14 times. Among the major athletes from the city, two-times Olympic Silver Medalist in heaveweight boxing, Søren Petersen and former Liverpool midfielder Jan Mølby. Kolding Castle Lake - Photo: Hubertus - Wiki As you may have guessed, Koldinghus would be a place that we recommend to visit. Both to see the historic building in a new form but also due to its highly interesting exhibitions. Trapholt Arts museum, a look around in the historic center or by Kolding fiord are also worth the time. And how about bit of pizza? Kolding likes to call themselves Slice-town for a reason!!

Nah. I think I could think of 100 places to mention before Copenhill

And no, @bestmen, I didn't mention the mermaid because of you. Wrote this one a few days ago

Copenhagen Central Station - Photo: Dennis Jarvis - Wiki We can now welcome @bestmen, @Ruslan and @Fly_like_a_don to the capitol of our nation, and birthplace of Amalie Bruun, the woman behind the name Myrkur, Copenhagen. The history of Copenhagen is often said to go back to the bishop Absalon who is said to have acquired parts of the settlements at about 1160. However historic sources mention the area at least 100 years earlier. It was however under the leadership of Absalon that the city grew the most during the medieval ages. It was in the 1400s that the Danish king took residence in the town and made it the most important. Since then it has grown steadily even though attacked several times by both Sweden and the British. Nowadays Copenhagen is a well-known tourist destination with all kinds of attractions. Amalienborg Royal Palace - Photo: Ib Rasmussen - Wiki As the capitol of the country, Copenhagen is of course a major sports city. The football team FC Copenhagen has won numerous national championships and the city has hosted several major sporting events with both the UEFA Euro 2020 and the 2021 Tour de France ahead. Among many sports legends, 1992 European Champion John Jensen and Viggo Jensen, the first Danish Olympic Champion, are from here. The Old roller coaster - Photo: Leif Jørgensen - Wiki It’s hard to pick just a few places to visit in Copenhagen. At the Tivoli you can try the world’s third oldest functioning roller coaster, there are plenty of museums to visit, no matter if you prefer arts or history, you can walk around taking in all the historic view or you can of course go and see the famous statue of the little mermaid.

My main problem with not having TV is that I really miss having Swedish (and sometimes Norwegian) TV channels, especially for sports, but also a few other programs. Sure I can fix a lot of that with a VPN, but that's just more money to spend alongside 3 different streaming services just to have acces to the sports I want to watch and whatever other streaming services for other kinds of entertainment than sports. It's easily more expensive! And an appartment that really isn't built fof good wi-fi doesn't make it better. I really consider going back from time to time and might do so for the Olympics.

And don't say I forgot something Niger Bombino - Amidine

Quite a difference between those 2 speeches

Rødovre Station - Photo: Secondarywaltz - Wiki We’re back in the greater Copenhagen area, where we can welcome @Vektor, @Cobi, @Bohemia and @Benolympique to Rødovre. It was at the local high school that the band Sods played their very first concert back in 1977 in 1981 the band changed name to Sort Sol and later participated in the 2017 TISC Open. Just like many other towns in the greater Copenhagen area, Rødovre was a small farming village before Copenhagen started growing. During the war against Sweden in 1660 the church of the village was destroyed and the villagers ordered to go to another church nearby. In the end of the 1800s, new fortifications around Copenhagen was built including ramparts in the west, cutting small parts of the town from the rest. Rødovre remained a mainly rural town until about 1930, where it became more of a modern suburb. As a such it started growing rapidly and even had the first indoor mall in Denmark. Vestvolden - Photo: Ole Andersen - Flickr It is hard to mention Rødovre and sports without mentioning ice hockey.Rødovre has won the Danish championships 6 times and several of the Danish NHL stars including Jannik Hansen, Mikkel Bødker and Lars Eller had their domestic career here. Heerup Museum - Photo: Ramblersen - Wiki To spend some time here, we recommend the Heerup museum, walking along the old wester ramparts and visiting the cold war bunker, Ejbybunkeren just like a stroll around the Damhus Lake is lovely.

Tønder Station - Photo: Mef.ellingen - Wiki We can now welcome @Function CR Lee, @Manulete and @mrv86 to Tønder, just North of the German border. This is hometown of this year’s Danish TISC Annual contestant, Jacob Dinesen. The city goes back a long way, but the first signs of the city in literature is in fact the Arabian cartographer al-Idrisi who mentions the town in the 1100s. It became the first market town of Denmark when it got its rights in 1243 with trade happening from the original harbor. With the close proximity to Germany the city saw plenty of trade and travel to and from Germany. However to prevent flooding, dykes were built meaning that Tønder isn’t by the sea any longer. Just like the rest of southern Jutland, Tønder was German from 1864 to 1920. Nowadays Tønder is most well known for it’s annual Music Festival, Tønder Festival with folk music as main genre. Among the acts on this year’s festival was former TISC participant Hudson Taylor. Tønder - Photo: Clemensfranz - Wiki Tønder isn’t that much of a sports city. The best handball team, TM Tønder Håndbold, was however in the best series for a couple of years.’Former football national team Henning Munk Jensen is however from Tønder. Tønder Museum and Water tower - Photo: Jürgen Howaldt - Wiki Even though Tønder is a rather small city, we’ll make sure that you will have ways to spend your time here. We have a fine museum of cultural history, a nice exhibition of chairs from the famous designer Hans Wegner, plenty of beautiful nature, lots of historical buildings and several lovely towns nearby.