Standing out from the crowd – A necessity for Eurovision Over the years, certain media sources have bemoaned the fact that Eurovision music is too generic and is losing out on targeting a wider audience. While many countries have fielded ‘alternative’ acts over the years, these have […]
Lordi, Lordi, Lordi – It’s Heat 2 of UMK 2016 in Finland Next Saturday, 13th February sees the second heat of Finland’s UMK16 qualifying competition featuring another 6 songs. Who will join Saara Aalto, Eini and Stella Christine from the first heat? Attention 2 – Ready For The […]
UMK is underway, and tonight Finland selected three songs to go to the final of the competition on Saturday 27 February. Are your favourites from tonight among them? If you missed the blog (and where were you?), you can find it HERE. Eini – Draamaa Saara Aalto – No fear […]
Hyvää iltaa (as they say in Jyväskylä! Those crazy crazy Finns are in Eurovision, with their own unique formula. Whilst other countries may go all populist in their approach, UMK – Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu – is definitely Finnish. Broadcaster YLE goes for variety and maybe just a little bit […]
Saturday 6th February sees the first of three UMK16 qualifying heats to find this year’s Finnish entry for Eurovision 2016. Here’s a look at the six competitors in heat one PLUS make sure to see who you have been voting for in our International Poll for Favourite Song […]
Return of the Jedi, Return of the King… we do like a returner don’t we? Well we certainly do at Eurovision! Of course for some people, once is most definitely not enough and so they have returned to grace the Eurovision stage more than once – for some […]
Stockholm is the venue for Eurovision 2016 and today the 43 countries began their journey (aka Marathon) for glory in May as the draw took place today for the Semi Final allocation. This is a ROLLING BLOG beginning at 11:15CET and you can WATCH HERE. You know the […]
POLL – Finland have released the 18 songs that will compete in UMK 2016 in the hope of representing Finland at Eurovision 2016. Again YLE have brought us a wide genre of musical styles for you to choose from. So we want to know who you think should […]
FINLAND – They teased us with clips of the songs recently but now they YLE have released the full songs that will battle it out for the right to represent Finland – across the water – in Stockholm. You can listen to the 18 songs on the official […]
Finland – Happy New Year from the Finnish broadcaster YLE as they have published short clips of the 18 Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu participants. The full videos will be released 12th January at 11.00 (CET). View this post on Instagram 18/18 Uusi vuosi, uudet kujeet UMK:ssa! Onko tässä […]
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