Following Jamala’s victory at the Ukrainian selection event on Sunday, the international press were quick to jump on the song’s political content, as 1944 is believed to be about the Stalinist expulsion of Crimean Tatars during the Second World War. Despite the hype, it’s worth noting that songs […]
Stockholm is the venue for Eurovision 2016 and today the 43 countries began their journey (aka Marathon) for glory in May as the draw took place today for the Semi Final allocation. This is a ROLLING BLOG beginning at 11:15CET and you can WATCH HERE. You know the […]
The 2007 Junior Eurovision moved back west, and made history for various reasons. The Netherlands had narrowly lost out on bidding to host the 2006 edition, so it was probably only fair they won the right to host 2007 in Rotterdam. The number of participants rose again, which […]
She may have missed out on a place in the Grand Final of Eurovision in 2014 but that is not stopping Suzy from taking on the big guns of Eurovision. She’s just laid down the gauntlet with Russia’s Polina Gagarina and Spain’s Soraya. The OGAE Spain concert took […]
The fourth Junior Eurovision saw it venture, for the first time, to a country that had never hosted the senior version. Romania’s nation broadcaster TVR beat the Dutch and Croatians for the honour to host. Naturally, as this was a first for Romania, they hosted it in Bucharest. […]
RTP announced that it will not participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 and obviously fans are very disappointed. There is however a promise to return in 2017 with a fully refurbished selection method. Fans expect that to happen. There is no perfect format but it is not […]
It’s time for the ‘Hokey Pokey’ dance of who is in and who is out of Eurovision 2016. Yes countries and broadcasters have that decision to make if they want to come and join the party in Stockholm next May. So let’s just have a recap of who […]
Eurovision 2015 Votes – We try and predict where the 12 points will go. What do you think? We are here at the Grand Final and we have the Voting Running Order. Here is how we (Garrett, John and Phil from On Europe) think the 12 Points will […]
Interesting fact of the day number 3,512. On Saturday night, Norway will be performing the 1,200th song to be sung at a Saturday night final. In total, there have been over 1,400 songs, but some of these never made it to the Grand Final. Here are those other […]
EUROVISION 2015: Day 11 Live Semi Final 2 from 21:00 CET It is DAY 11 In the ‘Big Brother’ Eurovision house and Eurovision Ireland will be here for you to whet your appetite for what’s going down, down low in the old Wiener Stadthalle! We now start the […]