Alberto Bianchieri, the Mayor of Sanremo, has confirmed that the 2022 edition of Festival di Sanremo will be held with a reduced audience capacity due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic. Alberto Bianchieri had the following to say: “Let’s see what will happen between now and January 10, but […]
#BIRTHDAY: Maria Elena from Greece is 38 today Continuing our Mediterranean theme – well, it started yesterday – we move east to the popular country taking part in our favourite TV show since the 1970s. As we’ve discussed, Greece’s success has mainly been 21st Century, when someone gave […]
PBS, the Maltese national broadcaster, have set the dates for this year’s Malta Eurovision Song Contest. The national selection has returned for the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest. The Semi Final will take place on Thursday 17th February, when sixteen acts will progress to the Grand Final on Saturday […]
ERR, the Estonian national broadcaster, have announced the draws for the two Semi Finals of Eesti Laul 2022. The line-ups are: Semi Final 1 – Thursday 3rd February Alabama Watchdog – “Move On” Andrei Zevakin feat. Grete Paia – “Mis nüüd saab” (What now) Elina Nechayeva – “Remedy” […]
Building on the success of our Best of the Big 5 series, Eurovision Ireland is now broadening its search for your favourite entries from countries across the continent, spanning the contest’s entire back catalogue – that’s well over 1500 songs! We’ve scoured the Big 5 countries and across […]
#BIRTHDAY: Jan Johansen from Sweden is 55 today Just when you thought we were going to avoid a certain country, we found this birthday today and knew we had to pick this above the Italian, German, Latvian and Luxembourger who also have birthdays today. We consider it one […]
This week sees the week-in, week-out 2022 National Final marathon continue! This week is just the start of things, with just the one show and one announcement… Monday 10th January Norway – MGP Songs & Artists Announcement (12:30 GMT/13:30 CET) Wednesday 12th January Finland – UMK Artists Announcement […]
Tonight, the first heat of Pabandom iš naujo! 2022 took place. Six of the twelve participants have progressed to the semi final stage. They are: Joseph June – Deadly Urtė Šilagalytė – Running Chords Mary Mo – Get Up Augustė Vedrickaitė – Before You`re 6 ft Under Sun […]
#BIRTHDAY: David Civera from Spain is 43 today One of the things about taking part in our favourite TV contest is the audience. Yes, it’s a TV show first and foremost, but there will always be a crowd that you have to sing to too. In the good […]
#BIRTHDAY: Sirusho from Armenia is 35 today There are plenty of countries that have never won, and we all love them for trying. One day soon, we’ll get another début winner. Who will it be? More to the point, if you go to the shows, where would you […]