#BIRTHDAY: Stella Maessen is 70 today Those people who keep coming back for me. Is i good because they know what they’re doing? Or is it bad because they’re doing someone else out of a chance? Today’s birthday girl Stella Maessen disguised her appearances a little, by only […]
#BIRTHDAY: Dalal from Bosnia & Herzegovina is 42 today Our friends in Bosnia & Herzegovina have fallen out of love with our favourite TV show of late. We miss them with their quirky acts and Slavic tendencies. They last had a go at winning in 2016 and didn’t […]
#BIRTHDAY: Jessica Mauboy from Australia is 34 today There are lots of exclusive Eurovision clubs out there. Double winners. Singers performing back-to-back entries. Or that other one – singers who first performed in an interval act before getting the main gig. We can only think of two. One […]
#BIRTHDAY: Gina G is 53 today If you were a Eurovision performer, eagerly awaiting the draw for the Grand Final, what would your worse fear be? Being on first? Being on last? Being on second maybe? I would wager your average performer wouldn’t know about the curse of […]
#BIRTHDAY: Emma Booth from the UK is 49 today Eurovision is mainly a young person’s game. Yes, even with the Junior version of our favourite TV show, the majority of performers at the senior even are in their teens and twenties. It must be the optimism of youth. […]
The BBC, the British national broadcaster, have parted ways with TaP Music, the record label responsible for selecting the British Act at the Eurovision Song Contest, since 2022. Earlier this lunchtime, TaP Music came out with the following statement on Twitter: It is to early to say whether […]
#BIRTHDAY: Filipa Azevedo from Portugal is 32 today What were you doing 13 years ago? Were you an ardent fan? Had you even discovered the contest? Or were you thinking it was time to take up hang-gliding instead of staying in on a Saturday night in May? If […]
#BIRTHDAY: Chanel from Spain is 32 today Do you love hype? That thing where a tune ends up being secondary to the personality that’s singing it? Or that thing when the fannage have already decided a certain song has won four weeks before that Grand Final? In other […]
#BIRTHDAY: Isabelle Aubret from France is 85 today It’s about time we had a winner. And it’s about time we had something in glorious black & white. So when those two parts of a Venn diagram work, it’s only right we oblige. Back in 1962, France notched up […]
#BIRTHDAY: Michael Ben David from Israel is 27 today Some countries have their stars. Those names that will attract a crowd whether it’s singing on stage, or at the local supermarket buying their favourite satay sauce. So many other aspire to be like that, but don’t quite make […]