Here at Eurovision Ireland, we look at what happened at the Eurovision Song Contest and Family of Events #OnThisDay. Today is 26th May 2018 and we look at a Euphoric victory for Sweden, at the Eurovision Song Contest. 26th May – 6 Years Ago Today On this day […]
Here at Eurovision Ireland, we look at what happened at the Eurovision Song Contest and Family of Events #OnThisDay. Today is 25th May 2018 and we look at the first ever win for Latvia at the Eurovision Song Contest. 25th May – 16 Years Ago Today On this […]
It’s a simple question we are asking. Will we be going to Israel or not? Author: Richard Taylor Source: Eurovision Ireland
Netta took part in Rising Star, a competition held in Israel to search for their next Eurovision representative. Rising Star took place between October of last year, through to February. After ten audition rounds, a shortlisting round, six heats, a quarter final, semi final and the final, Netta […]
Here at Eurovision Ireland, we look at what happened at the Eurovision Song Contest and Family of Events #OnThisDay. Today is 24th May 2018 and we look at the first ever Eurovision Song Contest. 24th May – 62 Years Ago Today On this day in 1956, the 1st […]
Yesterday, the European Broadcasting Union announced that around 186 million people viewed the Grand Final this year – around on average the same audience share as last year, 35.8%. In Israel, an average of 1 million viewers tuned into the Grand Final on KAN and witness Netta take […]
Yesterday, the European Broadcasting Union sent out a direct statement surrounding next year’s Eurovision Song Contest. Fans have started to read between the lines and are wondering whether we will be in Israel or not. The European Broadcasting Union have never published a statement like this so early […]
Over recent days, news came through that the European Broadcasting Union has placed a deadline of Friday 29th June. As we get ready to move on from the Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon and on to the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Minsk, participating broadcasters now have only […]
For statisticians, the Eurovision Song Contest is a gold mine of random trivia. For example, we wrote quite a bit recently about Finland and Cyprus never both making it to the final in the same year. 2018 saw this happen for the first time in 16 years. But we’ve […]
Although originally announcing their intention to take part in Eurovision 2019, Icelandic broadcaster RÚV may now be considering withdrawing from the event following the submission of a petition from fans. The petition, which has gained some 23,000 signatures internationally, calls for Iceland to boycott the next edition of […]
Netta took part in Rising Star, a competition held in Israel to search for their next Eurovision representative. Rising Star took place between October of last year, through to February. After ten audition rounds, a shortlisting round, six heats, a quarter final, semi final and the final, Netta […]
In 2007, she wowed Europe with her impressive operatic vocals and brought Slovenia to the grand final for the first time since the introduction of the semi finals in 2004. Now soprano singer Alenka Gotar is turning her hand to something very different – politics! Alenka is standing […]
Every year before the delegations arrive, a team or stand-in rehearse the songs to make sure that everyting is ready and in place: choreography, stage appearance, lighting, special effects, camera work, etc. Cesar Sampson’s song (from Austria) won the jurie’s hearts, but didn’t quite manage to do the same […]
For the first time since the Eurovision Song Contest was held in Oslo, back in 2010, there was no LED screens used as part of the stage design. This was part of a cost cutting exercise by RTP, but also led to an array of creative decisions from […]
Eurovision 2018 may still be fresh in our minds, but that hasn’t stopped organisers and artists looking ahead to next year! After coming 10th in Kyiv for Norway in 2017 with Aleksander Walmann, music producer JOWST tweeted he wants to compose a Eurovision entry – but for the […]
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