#BIRTHDAY: Isabelle Aubret from France is 87 today It’s about time we had a winner. And it’s about time we had something in glorious black & white. So when those two parts of a Venn diagram work, it’s only right we oblige. Back in 1962, France notched up […]
This year at the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest, in Basel, we will be looking back at Switzerland since their first participation. Today we begin with 1956. 1961 – “Nous aurons demain” In 1961, when the Contest was held in Cannes, France, Franca di Rienzo represented Switzerland with “Nous […]
Here at Eurovision Ireland, we are taking a historical look back on our favourite Contests past and present, on the very day they took place. Today it’s March 18th: Saturday 18th March 2006 On this day in 2006, the 46th edition of Melodifestivalen took place in Stockholm. Carola […]
Today, the 2024 Summer Olympics continue (although the Opening Ceremony takes place tomorrow) and we have added a Eurovision twist to the proceedings. We will be celebrating the best of Eurovision participating countries, ranked by their gold medal success at the Summer Olympics, up to and including Tokyo […]
Today, the 2024 Tour de France continues and we have added a Eurovision twist to the proceedings. During the Tour, we will be looking at the Italian and French winning entries of the Contest. Today is stage sixteen, with the tour continuing in the French city of Gruissan. […]
#BIRTHDAY: Conny Froboess from Germany is 80 today How good is your knowledge of our favourite TV show? Do you have any interest in songs that appeared in the 20th Century? Do you know any songs that were in that long-distant period where everything was in black & […]
#BIRTHDAY: Isabelle Aubret from France is 85 today It’s about time we had a winner. And it’s about time we had something in glorious black & white. So when those two parts of a Venn diagram work, it’s only right we oblige. Back in 1962, France notched up […]
#BIRTHDAY: Marion Rung from Finland is 77 today It was a big day yesterday if you were Finnish. It was Independence Day, where the great and the good get hosted at massive expense (it is Finland, don’t forget) by President Niinistö. It must be a good gig to […]
As part of the British Film Institute’s events to mark ‘BBC 100 Gamechangers’, they will be devoting two sessions to the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday 22nd October 2022 at the BFI’s London Southbank. Session One: The Eurovision Song Contest 1962 Thanks to the recent discovery of an […]
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