Welcome to Malta and welcome to our rolling blog for the Day 2 rehearsals of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2014. You know the drill by now. Just refresh the page to get the latest news on the contestants and their performances. So we have Andrew, Phil and […]
‘The Mann is Back’. Eurovision Ireland can confirm that twice Eurosong finalist Andrew Mann has entered 2 songs into the Irish Selection for Eurovision 2015. You will remember that Andrew has been in the Irish National Final in 2012 and 2014. In 2012 he was runner-up to Jedward […]
Our favourite Eurovision singing Indian is back! Joan Franka should have made the Grand Final at Eurovision 2012 with her song ‘You and Me’. However we are over that heartache and now as Joan returns with a new song. ‘Nigel’ is the Joan Franka’s new song and it […]
UK – You can’t keep a good man down for long and Englebert Humperdinck is set to ‘Rise Like A Phoenix‘ with his new Deluxe Album album of duets. Following his disappointment of being second last at Eurovision 2012 ‘The Hump’ is back triumphantly with a new album […]
Iceland (like Sweden) had introduced a gender quota of male and female songwriter equality in their Eurovision national selection for 2015. The new rule came under scrutiny from Icelandic 2008 representative Friðrik Ómar and others. It has now been announced that they rule of where 50% of shortlisted songs […]
United Kingdom : Yesterday the terrible news that singer/songwriter Lynsey de Paul passed away unexpectedly at the age of 64. Many will remember Lynsey for her performance at Eurovision in 1977 when she and fellow singer/songwriter Mike Moran brought the United Kingdom to second place at the contest […]
Romania : Mandinga seem to think that they are from Latvia as they are looking very ‘Pirates of the Sea’ with the release of their new video for ‘Ce poveste’ with Connect-R. They’ve done it again and come up with another great pop/folk song and features my favourite […]
We brought you a taster of Tooji’s new song ‘Cocktail’ a few days ago and we were ready to eat his hat if the song and video proved our predictions wrong that it would not be nothing more than an attempt to be controversial. Well I am very […]
Romania – Eurovision 2012’s representatives Mandinga have teamed up with Connect-R to spin us ‘What a Story/ Ce poveste’. They’ve done it again and come up with another great pop/folk song and features my favourite instrument the accordion. Mandinga team up with rapper Connect-r on this track and what […]
To say that we are excited to bring you this news is an understatement. ‘Come on Everybody’ this is going to be so ‘Kuula’. Yes Eurovision Ireland is very excited to announce that Eurovision 2001 winner ‘Tanel Padar’ and Eurovision 2012 singer Ott Lepland are coming to Ireland […]