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 […]
Eurovision winner Loreen is to headline the third Eurasian Music Awards in Almaty. The awards ceremony will take place in the Central Stadium in Almaty on September 20th. The city of Almaty is in Kazakhstan – whom have been trying to become members of the EBU for some time […]
We told you recently that Eurovision 2012 French singer Anngun was headlining Dreamfields in Bali along with Indyana. Well the star took to the stage yesterday and here is her performance. ‘Right place, Right Time’ was the official anthem of the event and had the thousands of party […]
Hungary – Compact Disco go searching for ‘Ms Right’ and find her. One of our favourite acts from the 2012 edition of Eurovision recently released yet another quality song from their repertoire. We have been fans of the band since the brought Hungary to the grand final of […]
Germany’s Eurovision 2012 representative Roman Lob has kindly asked to take us ‘Home’ and we are very happy to accept. Sadly it is not for a late night drink with the lights turned down low but it is his new album that has been released. Here is the […]