Shay Healy, the winning Songwriter behind “What’s Another Year” has passed away at the age of 78. RTE, the Irish national broadcaster, gave the following obituary: “From Sandymount in Dublin, he originally worked in RTÉ as a trainee cameraman, but soon found himself on the other side of […]
Over the course of April and May, on the lead up to the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest, we will be celebrating the countries that are participating this year in Rotterdam. Today, we celebrate North Macedonia. North Macedonia debuted (as Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia) at the Contest in […]
#BIRTHDAY: Linas Adomaitis from Lithuania is 45 today Who’s your favourite duo? Is it one that won? Is it one that had two performers yelling at each other whilst stood close together? Or is it one of those duos that tried their best, but failed to make the […]
#BIRTHDAY: Tania Tsanaklidou from Greece is 69 today Have you ever met your hero? That one person who made you think a particular way, or aspire to a certain lifestyle. Were you disappointed when you met them, or did you admire them all the more? Today’s birthday girl […]
#BIRTHDAY: Manuel Ortega from Austria is 41 today If in doubt, repeat some words in your song lyric. It can sometimes pay dividends. Or it can make it appear that your song was originally two minutes and you needed to pad it out somehow. In 2002, Austria sent […]
Over the course of April and May, on the lead up to the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest, we will be celebrating the countries that are participating this year in Rotterdam. Today, we celebrate Russia. Russia debuted at the Contest in 1994, in Dublin, Ireland. Youddiph finished in ninth […]
#BIRTHDAY: Julia Samoylova from Russia is 32 today Eurovision can be controversial. We all know that. We’ll try not to get involved with those contoversies here, save to say it makes our contest all the richer. In 2018, today’s birthday girl Ю́лия Оле́говна Само́йлова/Julia Olegovna Samoilova finally got […]
#BIRTHDAY: James Fox from the UK is 45 today If you’re a singer, it sometimes helps if you have a second string to your bow. Some who have taken part in Eurovision have dabbled in politics, but staying in entertainment is probably a better option. In 2004, today’s […]
Over the course of April and May, on the lead up to the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest, we will be celebrating the countries that are participating this year in Rotterdam. Today, we celebrate Lithuania. Slovenia debuted at the Contest in 1993, in Millstreet, Ireland. 1X Band finished in […]
Over the course of April and May, on the lead up to the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest, we will be celebrating the countries that are participating this year in Rotterdam. Today, we celebrate Lithuania. Lithuania debuted at the Contest in 1994, in Dublin, Ireland. Ovidijus Vyšniauskas finished in […]