While my colleagues are working hard in sunny Tel Aviv, bringing you live blogs of the rehearsals, meanwhile , back in the not quite so sunny UK , I started to have a think about how the more senior generation televoter may vote during our week of two […]
So, rehearsals are well under way in Tel Aviv and so far we’re getting some rather interesting and very varied acts judging by what the rest of my colleagues are reporting back from Tel Aviv and also the clips on various internet links. In Melodifestivalen this year, Sweden […]
Last week , as part of my series on the trials and tribulations of being the host country for the Eurovision Song Contest. I looked at the ( very ) large financial commitments that the host delegation and host country has when hosting a large event like our […]
Last week, I began by introducing my series of articles on hosting the Eurovision song contest and what this means for the host country . Today , I am going to look at one of the most important things that the winning country of the year has to […]
So….with preparations well on track in Israel , the host country for this years Eurovision song contest , I thought this might be a good time to look at the fates and fortunes of the host country , in terms of chosen act, final result the year after […]
Tonight, the Melodifestivalen Grand Final 2019 took place at the Friends Arena in Stockholm , Sweden .In an exciting evening, twelve acts competed for the honour of flying the Swedish flag in Tel Aviv but in the end there could only be one winner and that is….. John […]
So, tonight after 4 qualifying heats and an Andra chansen ( second chance ) round , the Swedes are set to choose who will get their golden ticket to Tel Aviv tonight . Twelve acts will be competing at the Friends Arena in Stockholm, Sweden, for that golden […]
So today ,Austra and Paenda have officially released the song that she will sing in Tel Aviv . It’s called “Limits ” and you can listen to the song below . What do you think ? Do you think Pænda can achieve or even better the 3rd place […]
Tonight the Andra Chansen ( second chance) round took place in Nykoping , Sweden . Eight acts competed in four duels ,with the winner of each duel going forward to next week’s Melodifestivalen Grand Final where they will be in with a chance of representing Sweden in Tel […]
Tonight the Andra Chansen round takes place at the Rosvella Eventcenter in Nykoping , Sweden , when eight acts will get a second chance at trying to secure a place in next week’s Melodifestivalen Grand final .In this round the eight acts will compete in four duels and […]