In a new series of articles, we look at what happened at the Eurovision Song Contest and Family of Events #OnThisDay. Today is 6th April 2018 and we have a special anniversary for the United Kingdom. 6th April 1968 – 50 Years Ago Today On this day in […]
Last night, the eleventh London Eurovision Party took place at the Cafe de Paris – organised by Russell Davies, Kabir Naidoo and their team. Nicki French and Paddy O’Connell took to the stage for hosting duties as ever, declaring this to be the best line […]
Ryan O’Shaughnessy will be appearing on tonight’s Late, Late Show on RTE1 from 21:35GMT/22:35CET. Ryan will be discussing his Eurovision entry, as well as the Russian scandal surrounding the official video of “Together”. Boy George has also commented on the Russian TV scandal on Twitter, as can be […]
Last night on a live show on Logo TV, international superstar and the “mother”of all drag queens RuPaul confessed that she was invited to perform as interval act at the 63rd edition of Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon. The news hit like a storm all social media and […]
It’s the story Eurovision fans have been waiting for – today it was officially announced that work is under way for a musical based on the life of everyone’s favourite Sammarinese Eurovision star! The stage spectacular is expected to open in London’s West End early next year. Tentatively […]
The inaugural edition of the Eurovision Choir Of The Year will be broadcast on NRK2 this weekend. NRK2 will broadcast the Contest on Easter Sunday at 19:45 CET. Norway isn’t the only non-participating country to broadcast the show. Australia, Albania, France, Serbia and Ukraine have already shown the […]
OBITUARY: Yugoslavia’s Sabahudin Kurt has died News has reached us that Yugoslavia’s representative in the 1964 Eurovision Song Contest – Sabahudin Kurt – has died. He was 82. He sang the song ‘Život je sklopio krug’ at the Tivoli Concert Hall in Copenhagen. As you may know, only […]
Earlier today, our friends over at ESCExtra discovered a song online that sounds remarkably similar to Croatia’s Eurovision 2018 entry ‘Crazy’ by Franka Batelic. Have a listen to “Ceea Ce Iubim” by Romanian singer Guez – does it sound familiar to you? He took to Facebook Live to […]
Hello Eurovision fans! Welcome to the second episode of SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER! In this series, Eurovision Ireland will look back at some of the performances of each country taking part in Eurovision from the last decade, anlaysing camerawork, staging, costumes and even musical content to decide what went […]
Being at opposite ends of Europe, you’d think Cyprus and Finland wouldn’t have much to do with each other – and it seems that they really don’t! Since both countries started taking part at Eurovision, Finland and Cyprus have only appeared in the final together 17 times […]