Welcome to Sofia and welcome to our rolling blog for the Day 1 rehearsals of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015. You know the drill by now. Just refresh the page to get the latest news on the contestants and their performances. Our good friend Phil comes to […]
They missed out on going to Vienna this year but add a year and then ‘Minus One’ and we think Cyprus are on to a Eurovision equation that could score them an A+. However the Eurovision mathematician in us needs another element to complete this formula. Yes ‘Minus […]
Ukraine won the honour of hosting the seventh Junior Eurovision, so saw fit to host it in their capital. It was only the second time that a city had hosted both a JESC and a senior ESC. And the Palace of Sports became the only venue – to […]
The sixth JESC took us to more pastures new. At long long last, we finally saw a contest taking place in Cyprus. Naturally, there was a generally sunny theme to proceedings, even though the contest took place in November. Still, a very good choice in my opinion. Host […]
The 2007 Junior Eurovision moved back west, and made history for various reasons. The Netherlands had narrowly lost out on bidding to host the 2006 edition, so it was probably only fair they won the right to host 2007 in Rotterdam. The number of participants rose again, which […]
The fourth Junior Eurovision saw it venture, for the first time, to a country that had never hosted the senior version. Romania’s nation broadcaster TVR beat the Dutch and Croatians for the honour to host. Naturally, as this was a first for Romania, they hosted it in Bucharest. […]
The first JESC in Copenhagen had been a success, maybe more of a success than people expected. We had a country winning a Eurovision event for the first time, and a lot of interest to increase from the 16 countries in the first event. The EBU had aimed […]
It’s time for the ‘Hokey Pokey’ dance of who is in and who is out of Eurovision 2016. Yes countries and broadcasters have that decision to make if they want to come and join the party in Stockholm next May. So let’s just have a recap of who […]
It was only in 2003 that the first Junior Eurovision appeared on our screens. A contest full of hope and expectation for the years to come. A contest that was the first (senior or junior) to be broadcast in widescreen. A contest that was the first to spawn […]
Eurovision Songs tell the story of Sepp Blatter’s resignation as FIFA President – The Playlist! Who said that Football and Eurovision don’t have anything in common! With the resignation of Sepp Blatter as president of FIFA (think of it as the Football equivalent of Jon Ola Sand resigning […]