It is with a heavy heart that we bring you the news of the passing of Peret (Pere Pubill Calaf). He will be known to many as being the Spanish representative at Eurovision 1974 in Brighton. He passed away in Barcelona yesterday following a recent diagnosis of cancer. […]
‘United Russia’ political candidates use Conchita Wurst cartoons for their ‘Anti-Gay’ manifesto. These are the claims made by both The Moscow Times and Gay Russia. September 14th will see the election of the City Council members for the city of Murmansk in Russia. In an alleged campaign video two candidates Oleg […]
OGAE (The official Eurovision fan organisation) is long associated with the contest and their presidents are not scared to get their sleeves and everything else wet in the name of a good cause. OGAE Ireland’s President Diarmuid Furlong has completed the #ALSIceBucketChallenge (bravo) and he in turn has […]
“Anyone for tennis?” as they say. Is it game, set and match to Conchita Wurst as it appears that she could be modelling at the Bjorn Borg fashion show at Sweden’s Fashion Week in a few hours time. Obsessed with my @bjornborg bodysuit! Looking forward to the […]
Emmelie de Forest comes of age in her new song and video for ‘Drunk Tonight’. There seems to be a drop in sobriety with Eurovision singers recently with Waylon releasing the equally fantastic ‘Love Drunk’. Emmelie’s offering is as equally intoxicating and the video has me seeing double […]
Eurovision winner Conchita Wurst was in the Uk over the weekend to perform at Manchester Pride and in London’s G-A-Y Heaven. It is no secret that Conchita is a huge fan of Eurovision Diva Anna Vissi who has represented both Cyprus and Greece at the contest. In London’s G-A-Y club […]
Eurovision Winner Conchita Wurst was nominated to do the #ALSicebucketchallenge by Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic. Conchita did the challenge in her own special way with #DonateTwiceInsteadOfIce and she in turn nominated Jean Paul Gaultier, Jake Shears and Kylie Minogue. Jean Paul Gaultier accepted Conchita’s challenge and he […]
Former Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds died today in Dublin. He led the country during the 1990’s and was a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the Peace Process between Northern Ireland and The Republic of Ireland. Today tributes came in for the former Taoiseach […]
RTE (Irish National Broadcaster) announced their Autumn/Winter tv schedule and there was one programme that caught our attention – ‘What’s Another Year – The Shay Healy Story’. Shay Healy is the composer of the first Eurovision win for Johnny Logan back in 1980. ‘What’s Another Year’ gave Ireland […]
ABBA – ‘The 25 Undiscovered Gems’ is brought to the market in advance of the release of their 1979 Wembley Concert on Digibook, CD and Vinyl is available for you to download now. Agnetha herself has been promoting this 25 song playlist that is on Spotify below. “Brilliant […]