TiBB Music Festival: Manchester 05 // and the winner is... Italy! (pg. 5)
 

It is time to let the competition begin again! I, with Shaun's knowledge AND Riley's (Wizard) lovely ideas, decided to create a spiritual successor to TiBB Eurovision. In August, we were in Pittsburgh, then to the Gold Coast in October, in Belgrade back in January, and last month, we were in Oslo. Cut to later this month and the second day of next month, and we'll be in Manchester saying "Give Me a Higher Love!" What songs will be heard? Where are the constant translations into French? When will the madness end? No idea.

FORMAT

The format of the TiBB Music Festival will remain similar to TiBB Eurovision, however, there are some changes. I will have a Spotify playlist of all of the songs for you to listen to the songs during the 4 day voting periods. For the voting, there will also be 2 sets of points (just like TiBB Eurovision), however, everyone will be sending 1 sets of 4-8, 10, and 12 points for the jury voting, and there will be 1 set of an unknown number of points for televoting.

RULES

- If you want to take part, reply to this thread with the countries you want! But please, if you do reserve a country, I expect an entry.
--From this edition onwards, everyone can choose 2-7 countries to participate as.
- In a change from TiBB Eurovision, participants can now choose a song that is already in the public database (look on Spotify or YouTube, there are plenty of songs on either one).
- Lyrics, an artist name, song title AND music video are all that's required.
- Members may only represent between two and seven countries.
- Entries must be submitted to me as soon as possible. The events of the contest will take place over the course of a 2 week period.
- And for the first time since Globalvision, countries that are not in Europe or Australia will be able to participate.
- For the first time (in order to cut down on editing one video), there will be two semi-finals, and they will be posted on the same day.

You have as much time as you need to find your entries. Please find songs that we all may enjoy, and please don't feel afraid to take part The more entries, the more fun it is to run. Songs can be about anything you like, and whilst we are fairly liberal with what is deemed "in good taste" obviously a song containing 30 different death threats may well find itself lost in my inbox and doomed never to enter.

The winner of this glorious festivity shall also receive a supply of Anastasia Beverly Hills cosmetics this lovely little award (which has been potentially lost in the TiBB Admin towers)! https://i.imgur.com/pCZ1tmH.png - so if that isn't motivation to bring your A-game, I don't know what is.

Like last edition, the Big 6 (the top 6 of the previous edition) will all qualify for the final. All of the countries mentioned below will be free game (sans all of the ones I have, because some things never change with me, and because of the nature of the new participation rule).

COUNTRIES

AMERICAS:
• Argentina
• Bahamas
• Barbados (chosen by WickedSkengMan) <-song chosen->
• Brazil (chosen by Josiah.) <-song chosen->
• Canada (chosen by Liam-) <-song chosen->
• Chile
• Colombia (chosen by Wizard.) <-song chosen->
• Dominican Republic
• Ecuador
• Guatemala
• Haiti
• Jamaica (chosen by WickedSkengMan) <-song chosen->
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• United States ««Big 6 qualifier»» (chosen by WickedSkengMan) <-song chosen->
• U.S. Virgin Islands

ASIA & OCEANIA:
• Australia (chosen by Liam-) <-song chosen->
• Bangladesh
• China ««Big 6 qualifier»» (chosen by Calderyon) <-song chosen->
• Fiji
• Hong Kong
• India (chosen by Calderyon) <-song chosen->
• Japan (chosen by Calderyon) <-song chosen->
• New Zealand (chosen by TwentyOneThrones) <-song chosen->
• Philippines ««Big 6 qualifier»» (chosen by Josiah.) <-song chosen->
• Samoa
• South Korea ««Big 6 qualifier»» (chosen by Calderyon) <-song chosen->
• Taiwan (chosen by Calderyon) <-song chosen->
• Thailand
• Tonga
• Vietnam

AFRICA:
• Algeria
• Angola
• Botswana
• Cameroon
• Chad
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Egypt
• Ethiopia
• Gabon
• Ghana
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya
• Liberia
• Madagascar
• Mali
• Mauritius
• Morocco
• Mozambique (chosen by Nicky91) <-song chosen->
• Namibia
• Nigeria (chosen by TwentyOneThrones) <-song chosen->
• Republic of the Congo
• Sierra Leone
• South Africa (chosen by Nicky91) <-song chosen->
• Tanzania
• Tunisia
• Uganda
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

EUROPE:
• Åland Islands
• Albania
• Armenia
• Austria
• Azerbaijan
• Belarus
• Belgium
• Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Bulgaria
• Croatia
• Cyprus
• Czech Republic ««Big 6 qualifier»» (taken by Josiah.) <-song chosen->
• Denmark (taken by Josiah.) <-song chosen->
• Estonia (chosen by Wizard.) <-song chosen->
• Faroe Islands (chosen by Josiah.) <-song chosen->
• Finland
• France (chosen by Wizard.) <-song chosen->
• Georgia
• Germany (chosen by Nicky91) <-song chosen->
• Greece
• Hungary
• Iceland
• Ireland
• Israel
• Italy (chosen by Wizard.) <-song chosen->
• Kazakhstan
• Kosovo
• Latvia (chosen by TwentyOneThrones) <-song chosen->
• Lebanon (chosen by TwentyOneThrones) <-song chosen->
• Liechtenstein
• Lithuania
• Luxembourg
• Malta
• Moldova
• Monaco
• Montenegro
• Netherlands (chosen by Nicky91) <-song chosen->
• North Macedonia (chosen by Josiah.) <-song chosen->
• Norway (chosen by Liam-) <-song chosen->
• Poland
• Portugal (chosen by Josiah.) <-song chosen->
• Romania
• Russia (chosen by Nicky91) <-song chosen->
• San Marino (chosen by Wizard.) <-song chosen->
• Serbia
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• Spain (chosen by Liam-) <-song chosen->
• Sweden (chosen by Liam-) <-song chosen->
• Switzerland
• Turkey
• Ukraine
• United Kingdom «Host Country» ««Big 6 qualifier»» (chosen by WickedSkengMan) <-song chosen->
• Vatican City

Canada and Australia for now please

South Korea, China, Japan, India and Taiwan, please.

UK, USA

Also Barbados and Jamaica if possible

Spain and Sweden as well tah

Lmao all the countries I wanted are taken welp

I’ll sit out of this one but I’ll be back next time :p

OP updated

Also Morgan, you do know that there are other countries to choose from.

I’m aware, but I don’t exactly have a back catalog of songs from Ethiopia, nor the desire to find any

Germany, Netherlands, South Africa, Russia, Mozambique

sent my songs now too

Do the songs have to be from the country?

France, Germany, Estonia, Colombia, San Marino

Germany is already taken by me Wizard

I'll take Italy then

OP updated

Is this Manchester UK or Manchester USA?

I’ll take Norway too please

UK, if you couldn't tell by the flag in the logo.

OP has been updated.

omg I need to win my hometown festival.

We have 31 countries presumptive, with 17 having sent in their songs, confirming their participation.

You've got 2 weeks to get your songs in.