What does it take to win Eurovision. Well firstly a great singer and a brilliant song, but there is so much more to it than that. In this mini-series I am going to look at the other aspects that go into making a great Eurovision performance, starting tonight […]
Well, it seems like yesterday’s piece about some of the myths that surround our beloved ESC got some of you talking so I thought I’d have a look at a few more… It’s only for amateur musicians I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to […]
As Eurovision fandom is reeling from the not-very-at-all-shocking fact that Frans (pictured above) won the Melodifestivalen this evening, a quick look into the voting figures through the televote and the app reveals something a bit alarming. Firstly, his total score of 158 points is 8 LESS than Måns’ televoting score from last […]
Hungary – Join us tonight at 19:40 CET for our LIVE rolling blog of the Final of A Dal 2016 – the 6th and final show. 8 acts will compete for a place in the Grand final one week tonight tonight. . You can watch the show live here at 19:40 CET and […]
Established in 2009, rock band Minus One have been making waves in Cyprus and beyond with their brand of driving, edgy rock. Now, they are turning their sights on a Eurovision win at Stockholm with their song, ‘Alter Ego’. I don’t know about you, but I REALLY want […]
That’s your Jury……. Hungary – Join us tonight at 19:40 CET for our LIVE rolling blog of the Second Semi Final of A-Dal 2016. 9 acts will compete for a place in the Grand final one week tonight tonight. . You can watch the show live here at 19:40 CET and just refresh […]
Lithuania: Right, pay attention at the back, because this gets complicated. As you may already be aware, the Lithuanians never like to do anything simple at this game. This year they’ve decided to divide their selection process into two halves – those with songs and those without. The […]
Sweden: So today was the day that we finally got to hear the first batch of MelFest contenders, and SVT suggested that we’d be hearing them in dribs and drabs as the day went by. But time went on, and we’d yet to hear anything, but then […]
In an unexpected turn of events, Poland have reverted to a national final format. The newly appointed TVP1 channel director Jan Pawlicki took to Twitter to reveal that the country will hold a national selection on March 5th. “Let the viewers decide who will represent Poland in Eurovision! […]
After the release of the Spanish contestants of “Objetivo Eurovisión” I have been asking around my friends (eurofans and not eurofans) and my relatives about their impressions of the songs and this is what they told me about! I will structure it song by song and telling […]