Tonight the first semi-final of Finland's new Eurovision selection project Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu begins.

We will also get our first glimpse at the full line up of the 12 songs who remain in contention to escort the Finnish flag to Baku after having been whittled down from 540 by a jury and then from 40 via internet voting and jury over the past few months.

The show starts at 20:00 CET and will be shown in Finland on TV2 with a webstream available on YLE's website. Stay tuned for our live coverage tonight which will also contain the link to the stream.

• By Liam Clark on Jan 27, 2012Source: escXtra.com, YLE