#BIRTHDAY: Svante Thuresson from Sweden is 84 today Some of you might have heard of a country in the north of our fair continent called Sweden. It’s taken part a few times in our favourite TV show. And they may have occasionally won too. It took Sweden eight […]
LITHUANIA: Pabandom iš naujo! has a winner! After four shows, the good people of Lithuania has picked a representative for the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam in May. And that winner is… The Roop! With the song Discoteque The song won the jury vote… …and the televote […]
#LITHUANIA: Live Blog of Pabandom iš Naujo! Grand Final from 20.00 CET We’re almost there. Tonight the Baltic nation decides who will represent it at the Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam in May. Over the last three weeks, twenty acts have been whittled down to five, who will […]
#BIRTHDAY: Justs from Latvia is 26 today It’s always a tough ask, when you take part in the contest the year after your country does well. This might be because your country won, or could just be because your country had a really good result the previous year. […]
#BIRTHDAY: Kejsi Tola from Albania is 29 today If you’ve ever got through your national final and represented your country at our favourite TV show, should you try again? There have been some performers who have got through more than once, and won after they’d fallen short the […]
#BIRTHDAY: Getter Jaani from Estonia is 28 today A stage show can be crucial in getting your song across to the voters of Europe and beyond. It can make a difference between getting three minutes, six minutes, or even nine minutes. So it has to make an impression. […]
#BIRTHDAY: Dana International from Israel is 52 today There have been just under 50 soloist winners of our favourite TV show, so that averages out at about one winner per week. Luckily, we have a solo winner today. But who? It’s a winner from the 20th Century, who […]
#BIRTHDAY: Dario Campeotto from Denmark is 82 today As you should know, there’s more to Eurovision than the contests of the 21st Century. We can go way back. Yes, even before 1995. There were contests in wondrous black & white, and that’s where we go today. Today’s birthday […]
#BIRTHDAY: Victor Crone is 29 today We know all about those false flaggers out there. They can provide a certain ‘je ne sais quoi’ to a contest, and there’s potentially the votes the country can get from the false flagger’s birth country. Today’s birthday boy Victor Crone (né […]
#LITHUANIA: Five more songs progress in Pabandom iš naujo! Broadcaster LRT got a little closer tonight to selecting a song for the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest tonight, after selecting five songs to join The Roop in the Grand Final of Pabandom iš naujo! on 6 February. Is there […]
#LITHUANIA: Live Blog of Pabandom iš Naujo! Semi-final from 20.00 CET Thunder and lighting! It’s getting exciting. In Lithuania anyway. After two heats, we have ten lucky semi-finalists competing for five spots in the Grand Final of Pabandom iš Naujo! next Saturday. The Roop are already there, but […]
#BIRTHDAY: András Kállay-Saunders from Hungary is 36 today Songs sung in our favourite TV show cover a very wide range of themes. We’ve had songs about falling in love, songs about falling out of love, and songs about how we need to take care of the thongs we […]
#BIRTHDAY: John Lundvik from Sweden is 38 today Do you ever see a song in our favourite TV show and think it’s definitely definitely going to do well? You’re so sure you’ll put money on it winning? That particular song might be from, say, Sweden, so you’re on […]
#BIRTHDAY: Gary Lux from Austria is 62 today What was the best contest of all time? Yes, it was 1985. It’s been scientifically proven*. So any act that took part in that contest in Göteborg should be very proud of themselves. After all, When Lys Assia is the […]
#BIRTHDAY: Michela from Malta is 20 today You’re old. Yes, you are. If we’re old, then you must be. We only say this because you’ll know you are when you see how old today’s birthday girl is. Our friends in Malta would love to win our favourite TV […]
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