http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_7RFAeB-L4 Last night in Carpathian mountain resort of Bokuvel, Ukraine selected its participant for this year’s Junior Eurovision Song Contest, taking place in Malta in November. the trio Sympho-Nick won the ticket with the song Прийде весна’ (Pryyde vesna), translating […]
Ani Lorak has found herself at the centre of much media attention recently from criticism to violence at her concert in Odessa on Monday. The Ukrainian interior minister’s adviser Anton Heraschenko reportedly said on August 4 that Kyiv is making a list of Russian culture figures who […]
Eurovision Winner Ruslana has been at the forefront of Ukrainian political life for some years now so it comes as no surprise that she has been involved in the recent charity concert in Mariupol and the subsequent ‘Bring Peace’ tour for the Ukrainian troops. She has been joined […]
Alyosha may have taken a long time to get to Eurovision 2010 in Oslo with selections and re-selections but she has proven to be one of the more successful Ukrainian singers to come from the contest. The song entitled ‘Bezoruzhnaia or Unarmed’ has been on the Ukrainian charts […]
Crimea, may be have your votes please? Last year Swedish TV developed the Eurovision slogan for the contest in Malmo, “We Are One” which aimed to portray Europe as a united entity, emphasising diversity and multiculturalism. Except Europe really isn’t one; Europe is a fractured construct, economically, […]
Indeed, where is Eurovision, as they might say in downtown Valletta. Those of you who have watched Malta’s Eurovision story through the years, you’ll know that most of their domestic action takes place at the Mediterranean Conference Centre, or Ta Qali in the centre of the island. But […]
Just when you thought it was safe. You know the sort of thing – Austria wins the contest, the fans are split equally between those that are happy and those that think Netherlands/Sweden/Armenia/Nepal were robbed, everyone looks forward to going to some strange new city next year. But […]
We are getting to that stage in the year when one gets the chance to put on a pair of shorts and enjoy some live Eurovision music in the lovely town of Setúbal in Portugal. The annual ‘Eurovision Live Concert’ in Portugal is becoming one of the premier […]
UKRAINE – Ani Lorak has ditched her usual ‘Shady Lady’ dance tracks for her new song ‘Maljvi’ with a video that has people divided. You would need to be living underneath a rock if you have not seen the growing political situation between Ukraine and Russia. Lorak – […]
Eurovision 2009 and 2012 have collided in a musical abyss. Ukraine’s Eurovision 2009 contestant Svetlana Loboda has teamed up with Emin who descended from the Azeri sky as the Eurovision 2012 Interval Act. Loboda, as she is known these days, has become a major player in the Ukrainian […]