#BIRTHDAY: Manel Navarro from Spain is 26 today For those of you who remember the older contests, but the more recent ones seem to meld into one, I’ve picked a song from 2017 today. It was in the beautiful Ukrainian capital of Київ/Kyiv. Luckily I’ve got 42 to […]
#FRANCE: And the winner is… French broadcaster France Télévisions has just finished its televised national final to pick a song for the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest in Turin in May. Twelve songs went in, and only one came out. And that winner is… Fulenn by Alvan & Ahez […]
#FRANCE: Live blog of C’est vous qui décidez from 21.10 CET You can watch the action live HERE. All times below are in GMT. 23.02 – Thanks for staying with the blog. Goodnight from Eurovision Ireland. 23.01 – Did the right song win? Will Fulenn fo well in […]
#BIRTHDAY: Amina from France is 60 today There are songs that become classics for various reasons. They could be winners. They could be insanely bad. Or it could be by accident. Back in 1991, you could argue we were in a very chaotic contest. Chaos from a presenter. […]
#BIRTHDAY: Søren Bundgaard from Denmark is 66 today We often discuss the idea of a gimmick on here. Sometimes they work, like a job lot of waving cats. Sometimes not, in the case of a giant apricot stone. Of course, the gimmick doesn’t have to be inanimate. Today’s […]
#BIRTHDAY: Kasia Moś from Poland is 35 today Are you a native English speaker? If not, than if writing a song wasn’t bad enough, writing a song in another language must be very difficult. So when a lyric comes along that might appear simple, you may want to think […]
#BIRTHDAY: Filipa Sousa from Portugal is 37 today Portugal. What music do you think of when someone says that word to you? Songs about former colonies perhaps? Or young ladies in boots in Bergen? Or, more likely, the fado. The fado can be a beautiful style, and the […]
#BIRTHDAY: Bernadette from the Netherlands is 63 today Back in the day, when there was no free language rule, some took it upon themselves to bend the rules as much as possible. They were allowed a few phrases in other languages. If you did it right, you could […]
#BIRTHDAY: Jean Gabilou from France is 78 today France are good at Eurovision. Well, they have been in the past. And anyone can win our favourite TV show. And wouldn’t you love a contest in Paris? And they almost did it in Rotterdam. And that’s a lot of […]
BIRTHDAY: Evdokia Kadi from Cyprus is 41 today One of these days, we know we’ll be off to sunny Cyprus for an edition of our favourite TV show. In 37 contests, they’ve managed one runner-up spot. But as you’ll know from Portugal, Austria and Finland, past performance is […]
bogdansteff9
escppeurovision
eurovisionireland
jjs1990
John Stanton
lisajaynelewis
philip6
roydhacksaw
Eurovision Ireland 