#BIRTHDAY: Loreen from Sweden is 40 today Hang onto your hats, your gloves, your scarves. It’s Sweden. And it’s someone who may have taken part in our favourite TV show on more than one occasion. Every year, another website has a poll to pick the favourite songs ever. […]
#BIRTHDAY: Julio Iglesias from Spain is 80 today Eurovision can throw up those acts that like to play down the fact they once represented their country. Their publicity material omits that three minutes of their life when they performed before several hundred million people. We wonder why, since […]
#BIRTHDAY: Lindsay Dracass from the UK is 39 today Do you have a preferred size of venue? Do you wish our favourite TV show – and it is a TV show after all – was in a small TV studio with people in their finery? Or do you […]
#BIRTHDAY: Ronela Hajati from Albania is 34 today Those fan favourites, eh? The ones that certain quarters of fandom rave about. Absolutely rave about. Then when said fan favourite doesn’t qualify they all threaten to give up following Eurovision in favour of bouldering. Well, maybe not. In other […]
#BIRTHDAY: Diodato from Italy is 42 today As we know, there have been 67 contests. But if you count from 1956, you know that doesn’t quite add up. That’s because we all know what happened in 2020. No contest, but there was still a crop of songs. Many […]
The Eurovision Song Contest first took place in 1956 to bring Europe together. These days we are once more surrounded by troubled waters, diseases, floods and wildfires. But once again there must be hope and people can come together to help one another. Our thoughts and prayers go […]
#BIRTHDAY: Nadine Beiler from Austria is 33 today Some countries have had a patchy relationship with our favourite TV show. Take Italy for example. They took over a decade out, and eventually won when they chose to. Then there are our friends in Austria. It’s been a bit […]
With the semi finals done and dusted for another year, it’s time for one of our most popular annual articles – let’s find out which countries have had their qualification rates improved the most by reaching the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 and who has […]
#BIRTHDAY: Evelin Samuel from Estonia is 48 today Have you ever thought of the journeys some performers have to make to get to a Eurovision venue? Things might be slightly different these days, and Australia travelling anywhere takes the record now, but it wasn’t always this way. Whilst […]
Good evening Europe and good morning Australia, this is Liverpool calling! Tonight is the Grand Final Jury Show, during which the 37 juries around Europe and beyond will watch a full run through of tomorrow night’s live show and cast their votes. 26 countries will sing tonight – […]