Hello dear readers of Eurovision Ireland! Today we continue with our exciting series: One Day Love! Each week we celebrate one song from Eurovision History. Here, you can find facts like: year, country, artist, title of the song, lyrics (translations when the song is in another language other […]
HALLOWE’EN: Eurovision goes bump in the night Hallowe’en and Eurovision. Does it scare you? Do you tremble on 31 October when you get a sinister knock at your door? Are you relieved when you find out it’s only the local kids going trick-or-treating? Or do you leave the […]
#BIRTHDAY: Paola from Switzerland is 70 today Our friends in Switzerland are in a curious situation. They have lots of languages to choose from, and they can confuse the average casual viewer by entering in a tongue we don’t always expect. Today’s birthday girl Paola Felix (née Paola […]
BIRTHDAY: Sue Schell from Switzerland is 70 today Many people have trodden the boards more than once, some with aplomb, and some doing stuff we’d rather not talk about. And I’m not possibly going to mention singers from the world’s oldest republic. But today we have a lady […]
Welcome back to the brand new Eurovision Ireland series, Review In Two – also known as #ReVu2! Over the course of this series, Eurovision Ireland regular James will take a look at all the songs heading to Rotterdam for Eurovision 2020 and give you his thoughts in just […]
Switzerland has chosen Gjon’s Tears internally, to represent them at the Eurovision Song Contest 2020, in Rotterdam. Gjon’s Tears will sing “Répondez-moi” – the first French language song for Switzerland in ten years. You can watch “Répondez-moi” below: Author: Richard Taylor Source: eurovision.tv
It is not long now until we know who will be representing Switzerland and the song that they will be singing. All will be revealed on Wednesday 4th March. SRF, the Swiss broadcaster, received a total of 515 submissions to represent Switzerland in Rotterdam. Twenty one International Jury […]
In 2020, Switzerland will use the same Internal Selection as 2019. Alongside the 100 member-audience panel, a further 20 member International jury is also used. Within the 20 member jury, a few familiar faces will be able to express their views on who will represent the Swiss next […]
BIRTHDAY: Gianni Mascolo from Switzerland is 79 today In those days before the free language, did you wish that your country could sing in any language it chose? Or do you think Eurovision should ditch the rule? If you were Swiss, you had the choice of four languages […]
BIRTHDAY: Luca Hänni from Switzerland is 25 today In this column, we don’t normally pick birthdays from the current year. But until May we had none on 8 October – and then two come along at once! Who’s the other one? Wait until 2020. We say that anyone […]