Sweden – Submissions from Melodifestivalen 2015 are being taken by SVT now. From now until the close date of the morning of Tuesday September 16th,songwriters must upload their entries to SVT’s official website Like in previous years there are 2 entry points for songwriters Public competition – For songwriters […]
Over the weekend the annual ‘Kristallen Gala’ took place in Sweden. The ‘Kristallen Gala’ is the Swedish version on the Emmy Awards and one of their special guest performers of the night was Eurovision winner Loreen. She performed the song ‘Sugar Man’. This was originally recorded by Sixto […]
Sweden – the reviews are in and Sanna Nielsen is a “Hit”. She may have missed out on winning Eurovision 2014 with her song ‘Undo’ however she is riding a Swedish wave of theatrical success. Sanna Nielsen has taken to the theatre since returning from Eurovision and she […]
Some weeks back we brought you the news that the Dutch media had speculated if Alain Clark could be the man to represent The Netherlands at Eurovision 2015. http://youtu.be/2NKaQCk3ndg In a video interview published today the singer addresses the rumours of his participation in the contest next year. […]
Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu or UMK (to you and me) returns as YLE (Finnish National Broadcaster) are now accepting entries for their Eurovision 2015 national selection. Artists have from now until noon (Finnish local time) Monday September 8th, to submit their entries for consideration. You must upload your entry on-line […]
The Wolf of Wall Street – oops Hungary – returns. Well as this is a Eurovision website then this can’t be about the Hollywood exploits of Leonardo DiCaprio and more about Ms Kati Wolf who represented Hungary at Eurovision 2011 in Düsseldorf. Wolf was one of the […]
Well the speculation is over. Eurovision winner Alexander Rybak has confirmed in an interview with The Maltese Sunday Times that he has indeed been in Malta recently to work on a song for the Maltese 2015 Eurovision National selection. As we reported earlier he is working with former […]
SWEDEN – The first act has been confirmed for Sweden’s Eurovision 2015 selection aka The Juggernaut that is Melodifestivalen. As per each year – the winner of the Summer contest ‘Svensktoppen Nasta’ is guaranteed a place in the Melodifestivalen live heats. Today 8 acts competed and […]
Bonnie Tyler was one of the headline artists at one of Ireland’s largest music festivals ‘Electric Picnic’. In a stroke of complete “Irish Irony” someone forgot to put money in the meter as the singer was in complete darkness for her performance as above all things the ‘Electric […]
Farid Mammadov aka ‘The Eurovision Body’ returns with a new song ‘Adıma Layıq’ and we say “Təşəkkür Edirəm” or “Thank You” if you don’t happen to speak the language. http://youtu.be/3HXvHvhMVbQ Farid brought Azerbaijan to 2nd place at Eurovision in 2013 with ‘Hold Me’. Today sees the long-awaited new […]