Before Melodifestivalen kick’s off in Gothenburg this weekend amid controversy, we have already seen one song disqualified and a co-presenter sacked. However, let’s forget about this year’s contest temporarily and look back at ten moments that have made Melodifestivalen the contest it is! 1: Seventh Time Lucky For […]
“I’m very touched by the great feedback I received” Today sees a positive story come from Melodifestivalen compared to the heartache felt by Anna Book yesterday following her disqualification from the contest. Oscar Zia is no stranger to Melodifestivalen and following his début at the contest became a […]
Imitation is the highest form of flattery Listen and compare the full 2 versions of the song that has caused a controversy at Sweden’s Melodifestivalen. First up we have Felicia Dunaf’s ‘Taking Care Of A Broken Heart’ that was in the Moldovan national selection in 2014. Now Warner Music […]
Fredrik Kempe maybe able to ‘Undo her Sadness’ at Melodifestivalen. In the wake of the scandal today of Anna Book being disqualified from this Saturday’s first heat of Melodifestivalen – SEE HERE – we have read that Melodifestivalen and Eurovision composer – and all round good guy – Fredrik […]
Sweden: So today was the day that we finally got to hear the first batch of MelFest contenders, and SVT suggested that we’d be hearing them in dribs and drabs as the day went by. But time went on, and we’d yet to hear anything, but then […]
Return of the Jedi, Return of the King… we do like a returner don’t we? Well we certainly do at Eurovision! Of course for some people, once is most definitely not enough and so they have returned to grace the Eurovision stage more than once – for some […]
Globen is the stage and ‘country versus country’ is the game! Well it sounds like something from a Rocky (or now known as Creed) movie tagline! The reality is that it couldn’t be further from the truth than Australia being in Europe just off the west coast of […]
EUROVISION Logo and Artwork Revealed for Stockholm 2016 #JoinUs as we #BuildBridges #Together to the ‘Confluence of Sound’ – Yeah the last one doesn’t run off the tongue or tweet so easily. So what official logo would we get for Eurovision 2016? It was announced at the Semi-Final […]
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 […]
BBC chomping at the teeth to get Eurovision Winner Måns Zelmerlöw on British TV. Newspaper reports are suggesting that Eurovision winner Måns Zelmerlöw is being lined up by the BBC to be a celebrity on the station’s winter prime time tv show ‘Strictly Come Dancing’. Negotiations for next season’s show […]