Updated -8.02.09
2009 Maltese Final - February 7th 2009 - Valletta
It's going to be a long winter down Valletta way....
The Maltese have decided to go the long way around when it comes to choosing their entry for 2009. They have got a "short" list of 56 - yes count em - 56 songs for their semi-final rounds.
They have gotten rid of 36 songs finally - and the final 20 to perform at the Maltese Final are now listed below. They will sing for the public votes, and the top 3 will go to a super final (and another round of voting)
Full results to come - but click the link to hear the winner
| Song | Performer(s) |
| Ha hi hu | The Elements |
| Kamikaze lover | Baklava |
| Choose your number | J. Anvil |
| Where you belong | Wayne Micallef |
| Tonight at the opera | Classic Rebels |
| Promises | Vittorio & Dorothy |
| What if we | Chiara |
| One million ways | Rosman Pace |
| Before you walk away | Q |
| Let it shine | Kylie Coleiro |
| Where was I? | Jamie Tonna |
| Life is an opera | Christine Barbara |
| Someday | Eleanor Cassar |
| Crossroads | Raquela |
| Mama | Miriam Christine |
| Avalon | Georgina & Ruth Casingena |
| Typical me | Alison Ellul |
| The song in your heart | Trilogy |
| Blue sonata | Claudia Faniello |
| Butterfly sky | Klinsmann |
Just to let you lawyer people know - we here at OnEurope didn't make the vids - we aren't that clever - we're merely showing em on here so Europe can see what's coming!
Fascinating Facts : so the politburo jury really *has* had it's last hurrah!! ;)
Matla had a false start by coming near the bottom between '71-'73, then they went off in a sulk, and came back with avengance in 1991 but have yet to win