#BIRTHDAY: Kojo from Finland is 72 today In our favourite TV show, it’s easy to be winners one day, tail-enders the next. Hero to zero, or vice versa. It’s all good fun. We love them all, as they’ve done something most of us will never do. Today’s birthday […]
#BIRTHDAY: Mr Lordi from Finland is 51 today There have been winners and there have been winners. From those nice safe ballads, some clucks, women dancing on boxes, people ripping clothes off. And so on. And then there was what happened in 2006. Yes, there were contests as […]
#BIRTHDAY: Käärijä from Finland is 31 today We often say that anyone can win the top prize in our favourite TV show. Past performance is no guide to future performance and all that. The same can apply to language. While one language pervades most contests these days, there […]
#BIRTHDAY: Kaija from Finland is 62 today OK, so we’ve gone vintage again. But 1991 was an interesting year when lots of songs got decent scores. And of course the EBU’s St Frank Naef had to employ a tie-break to pick a winner. Whether it was the right […]
#BIRTHDAY: Jasmine from Finland is 48 today Eurovision always loves a good sing-a-long song. Those mumbly arty Swedish types have their place, but nothing can beat a jovial singer with a big hearty smile. And a guitar. OK, the guitar is an optional extra, but when you get […]
#BIRTHDAY: Jari Sillanpää from Finland is 59 today It’s opening song time again. And not just any old opening song. Oh no. This was has a special place in Eurovision history. It was the first song in the first semi-final in the host country. And only a mere […]
#BIRTHDAY: Monica Aspelund from Finland is 78 today Those Finns have been unlucky over the years. Yes, they’ve had one win, but very few other finishes in the top 10. How many songs that maybe should have done better, ended up a long way down? Back in 1977, […]
#ESC2024: The best/worst lyrics of the final? We all know that a killer lyric can be key to success (or failure). We’ve taken a look at those songs competing in the Grand Final, to see if there’s anything that will earn them those crucial extra points that could […]
With the semi finals done and dusted for another year, it’s time for one of our most popular annual articles – let’s find out which countries have had their qualification rates improved the most by reaching the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 and who has […]
#ESC2024: Live Blog of SF1 rehearsal – from 14.45BST/15.45CET The Monday afternoon technical rehearsal is the first time we get to see how a TV show hangs together. It’s bound to involve a few hiccups here and there, but it’s also bound to be all right for the […]
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