The people of the UK will make their decision alone for Eurovision There had been some speculation about how the UK’s representative would be selected for Eurovision 2016. We all knew of the extensive song selection process being employed by the BBC but the lucky 6 acts to […]
Cupid’s Eurovision Arrow Is Pointed Straight At YOU! The Late Late Show (hosted by Ryan Tubridy) is the world’s longest running talk show and has been associated with Eurovision for many years. With no Eurosong this year as Nicky Byrne was selected internally, RTE have made sure not […]
The love of powerworld music. Celebrate your valentines with some of your favourite Eurovision artists. Tony Power, a songwriter known for the many songs he has written for some Eurovision artists, has launched a compilation with his best love songs for having a special February 14th. Let’s have […]
Clearing out the calendar for the ‘Lipstick Duo’ All of us (well those of us with nothing to do last Friday evening) saw ‘Geordie Shore’s’ Scotty T win Celebrity Big Brother in the UK. Today is was reported who the alleged highest earners from the reality show have […]
The Ones The BBC Let Get Away In the run up to the BBC’s first National selection since 2010, we continue a look back at some of the acts the BBC should have fought to get to Eurovision over the years. If you missed Part 1 then fear […]
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 […]
UK –Sir Terry Wogan Dies Aged 77 His family has just broken the news that the veteran Eurovision commentator and host “died today after a short but brave battle with cancer” He passed away surrounded by his family. The BBC director general Tony Hall commented “Terry truly was […]
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 […]
With news trickling out this week from the BBC about what is to come for the UK national selection in February, I got thinking about who we’ve sent to Eurovision in the past. And that got me thinking about who we didn’t send to Eurovision but maybe should […]