The original – and the best – line up of Swedish pop group legends “Army of Lovers”, reformed for Melodifestivalen this year and brought us the highly underrated “Rockin the Ride”. It was a teenage dream come true to see Alexander Bard, La Camilla and Jean-Pierre Barda back together […]
Sweden’s 2011 Eurovision representative – Eric Saade – releases the video for his new song “Winning Ground”. It is also the official song for the Women’s UEFA European Soccer Championship that starts today in Sweden. Eric’s official video for the song “Winning Ground” sees him performing in an […]
Stockholm Pride 2013 will be one the biggest outings in the festival’s history this year – and there will be a vast array of Eurovision and Melodifestivalen stars at the event. The line up of artists is as follows Gina G (United Kingdom 1996) Anton Ewald (Melodifestivalen 2013) […]
Sarah Dawn Finer – or more commonly know to the International Eurovision Viewer as Lynda Woodruff of the European Broadcasting Union – has confirmed that she wants to represent the UK at Eurovision! Sarah Dawn Finer is a Swedish singer, songwriter and actress with British and American parents. […]
Two rare ABBA recordings along with clogs, clippings and memorabilia will go under the hammer in Stockholm in August. The auction house in Stockholm – Auktionsverk – will sell over 25,000 ABBA items on August 10 and 11 to and expect to fetch some 830,000 kronor (95,000 euros, […]
Eurovision winner 2012 – Loreen – has released today an official video for her 2011 Swedish Eurovision Selection song “My Heart is Refusing Me”. It may seem strange that she is releasing a video for a song that is over 2 years old now, but her record company […]
The EBU are set to drop their investigation into vote-buying allegations at Eurovision 2013, according to Swedish Media outlet Aftonbladet. Lithuanian media 15.min had posted an alleged video showing an attempt to purchase tele votes for Azerbaijan at this year’s Eurovision. Just a few weeks ago Eurovision Supervisor […]
Eric Saade has just moments ago released the video for his new song “I’m Coming Home”. It is a pop song but not in the same Schlager sound as “Popular” or “Manboy”. “I’m coming home” is a mid tempo song with a strong guitar main melody running throughout […]
The Eurovision Song Contest and the Performance of Europe’, a lecture by Prof Brian Singleton,as part of the Euro-Visions Public Lecture Series on Europe. Though heavily criticised for its camp staging and the simplistic lyrics of many of its songs, the Eurovision Song Contest has survived for 58 years […]
Just a month after hosting Eurovision 2013 – SVT – the Swedish National Broadcaster have announced the application process for Melodifestivalen 2014 (the Swedish National Selection Process) Again there will be 32 songs selected for the 4 Heats. How will the 32 songs be selected? Firstly SVT have […]