#BIRTHDAY: 24 Mar – Anxhela Peristeri from Albania is 40 In 2020 we had a large crop of performers who were lined up for a certain event, only for it to not take place. For some 2020 performers, however, they had to qualify all over again for the […]
#BIRTHDAY: 23 Mar – Lado Leskovar is 84 today What’s your favourite type of song? Is it one that celebrates love? Or one that tells us about what we’re doing to the planet? Or something darker? They all have a place in our favourite TV show. And back […]
As we all know , Austria won the 2025 edition of the Eurovision Song contest in Basel, with JJ and “Wasted Love”. and we will be travelling to Austria’s capital city, Vienna , for the 2026 edition of our beloved contest. JJ’s victory in Basel was the third […]
#BIRTHDAY: 22 Mar – Pino Gasparini from Switzerland is 80 It must he tough when you perform at a Eurovision Song Contest, knowing the guest of honour is there watching you. Not only that, but when the guest of honour won for your country, there must be a […]
#BIRTHDAY: 21 Mar – Stig van Eijk from Norway is 45 Are you starting think that certain [insert country here] already has the 2026 contest in the bag? Some people may do, using different theories to reach a conclusion. It’s a thought that fans of our favourite TV […]
#BIRTHDAY: 19 Mar – Birthe Wilke from Denmark is 90 We go with a non-English language song today. And our friends in Denmark are sending a song to Vienna in Danish. That’s twice since the contest that never happened. It’s good to hear the language again. Today’s birthday […]
#BIRTHDAY: 18 Mar – Martine Clémenceau from France is 77 When your country has had success in our favourite TV show, the pressure is always on your singers to repeat that success year after year. But there often comes a year (or more), when those good placings desert […]
#BIRTHDAY: 17 Mar – Tamara Gachechiladze from Georgia is 43 Do you ever wonder what becomes of Eurovision stars after they’ve had their three minutes of fame? I’ll wager some of them go back to working in [insert coffee shop chain here]. Maybe some of them end up […]
#BIRTHDAY: 16 Mar – Sandhja from Finland is 35 The Eurovision fortnight can be a long two weeks if they don’t quite go your way. You turn up in the host city a long time before the big Grand Final, and you have to hang in there till […]
#BIRTHDAY: 15 Mar – Kristian Kostov from Bulgaria is 26 It’s trailblazer birthday time. Are you excited? Is it because they were the first participant for their country? Or because they were the first winner for their country? It’s neither. Now we’re firmly established in the 21st Century, […]