Just when you’d thought you’d had your fix of Live Blogs from us this year during the National Final season, we are back for daily Live Blogs from Lisbon – home of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. You can follow the LIVE BLOG HERE – as always just […]
Ryan O’Shaughnessy, this year’s Irish entrant at the Eurovision Song Contest will be joining Saara Aalto, this year’s Finnish entry during her Eurovision Wonderland Live show. The show takes place on Wednesday 25th April at the Under The Bridge venue in London. Matt Terry, who Saara Aalto was […]
#INTERVIEW: Eurovision Ireland speaks to Finland’s Saara Aalto Before the 2018 London Eurovision Party at the fashionable Café de Paris, Eurovision Ireland was granted a special audience with none other than Saara Aalto, who will sing ‘Monsters’ on Tuesday 8 May for Finland. In her sumptuous ‘Saaratorium’, she […]
Being at opposite ends of Europe, you’d think Cyprus and Finland wouldn’t have much to do with each other – and it seems that they really don’t! Since both countries started taking part at Eurovision, Finland and Cyprus have only appeared in the final together 17 times […]
#FINLAND: Saara Aalto to sing Monsters at Eurovision 2018 Finland (and an international jury) have decided to send ‘Monsters‘ to the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon. It won both the vote of both the international jury and the public vote. Here’s the winning song: Are you happy […]
#FINLAND: #AllAboard for the Live Blog of UMK at 18.00 CET Finnish broadcaster tonight chooses a song to represent Finland at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest. As we already know, Saara Aalto will fly the flag. But which song will she take with her? Tonight we’ll see her […]
We recently asked you which of Saara Alto’s songs was your favourite and which one you would like to see represent Finland at the Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon this May. Well, as tonight is UMK, here are the results! Drum roll, please… SAARA AALTO – MONSTERS Your […]
Back in November, Finnish broadcaster YLE announced that Saara Aalto would have the honour of representing Finland at the Eurovision Song Contest this May in Lisbon, and that her song would be selected through the usual selection channel, Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu. As Saara has now released all her […]
An old saying warns us to keep our friends close, and our enemies closer… but perhaps it’s just easier to snub them at Europe’s favourite music competition?! Show business is full of famous feuds… Joan Crawford and Bette Davis… Lindsey Lohan and Hilary Duff… Taylor Swift and whoever […]
YLE announced that Saara will not be going to the UK selection as many parts of the UK press thought, but has been internally selected to sing at the contest for Finland. UMK 2018 will still take place in Helsinki, but it’s going to be more like a Song […]