#BIRTHDAY: Aram MP3 from Armenia is 37 today It’s always daunting being first on in a song contest. It’s bad enough if you get the Saturday night gig. But if you get first on in the first semi-final, you must be really worried. It’s long been the graveyard […]
#BIRTHDAY: Nathan Trent from Austria is 29 today Do you have a favourite stage prop of all time? Is it a staircase used by the UK in 2009? The collection of pictures of ladies used by Italy in 1963? Or even a glitter ball used by Belarus in […]
This week we are celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the 1971 Eurovision Song Contest, on Saturday 3rd April – the first to be held in Ireland and the only Contest to be held at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin. Over the course of the week, culminating on the 50th […]
This week we are celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the 1971 Eurovision Song Contest, on Saturday 3rd April – the first to be held in Ireland and the only Contest to be held at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin. Over the course of the week, culminating on the 50th […]
#BIRTHDAY: Michalis Rakintzis from Greece is 64 today Things got a little odd at the turn of the century. We were trapped in Nordic/Baltic Europe after time in the eastern Med. Countries were taking it in turns to be relegated. And we had some interesting acts. When we […]
James was lucky enough to catch up with Kateryna Pavlenko and Taras Shevchenko from the electro-folk band Go_A, who will be representing Ukraine at the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 with the song “Shum”! How have the band been keeping busy during the global COVID-19 pandemic? What do have […]
#BIRTHDAY: Lucía from Spain is 57 today It’s noticeable that Eurovision song titles are getting shorter. Year after year we get these one-word titles, with the word in question often buried deeply in the lyric of the song. It’s as if there’s no imagination. But these one-word titles […]
Building on the success of our Best of the Big 5 series, Eurovision Ireland is broadening its search for your favourite entries from countries across the continent, spanning the contest’s entire back catalogue. On our tour of Scandinavia, so far we’ve checked off Iceland and Finland – now […]
Eurovision Ireland is excited to announce the UK and Ireland EUROVISION REUNION on ‘The Lewis Nicholls Show’, this Monday – April the 5th. The celebrity interviewer and host of show has reunited for you 11 Eurovision stars to share their experience, behind the scenes moments, personal moments and […]
This week we are celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the 1971 Eurovision Song Contest, on Saturday 3rd April – the first to be held in Ireland and the only Contest to be held at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin. Over the course of the week, culminating on the 50th […]