Englebert Humperdinck may have finished 25th in the Eurovision Song contest in 2012 in Baku but the man is showing no signs of slowing down. He will be the headline act at the “R:Rock Festival” in the grounds of Kiewit Hasselt. The festival takes place on August 11th and […]
€208,000 was spent by RTE on competing at Eurovision 2013 – according to the Irish Mirror Newspaper. So how does the newspaper claim the money was spent and why do they fail to mention the revenue that participation in the contest generates? Firstly RTE took 17 people as […]
The Eurovision Song Contest and the Performance of Europe’, a lecture by Prof Brian Singleton,as part of the Euro-Visions Public Lecture Series on Europe. Though heavily criticised for its camp staging and the simplistic lyrics of many of its songs, the Eurovision Song Contest has survived for 58 years […]
UK Eurovision Winners Bucks Fizz will perform at this year’s Arqiva Commercial Radio Awards to mark 40 years of UK commercial radio. 1981 Eurovision winners Bucks Fizz will open the show taking place at the Westminster Bridge Park Plaza Hotel in central London on July 3. They will […]
The official video for the Eurovision 2013 winning entry “Only Teardrops” has just been released by Danish Television. Shot on location on June 3rd on and around the beach of Tisvildeleje in North Zealand, it is part creative and part documentary where you see Emmelie being an enchantress in […]
80’s pop starlet Sonja will this year mark her 20th Anniversary of coming second in the nail-biting Eurovision in Millstreet in 1993. It all came down to the last vote of the contest from Malta, that denied Sonja a victory at Eurovision. Ireland’s Niamh Kavanagh was the eventual […]
Eurovision stars Johnny Logan (Winner 1980, 1987 and allegedly in drag in 1992) along with Björn Skifs (Sweden 1978,1981) , Lena Philipsson (Sweden 2004), Lotta Engberg (Sweden 1987) , Helena Paparizou (Greece 2001 and 2005), Tommy Nilsson (Sweden 1989) and Bonnie Tyler (UK 2013) will all be taking to the stage […]
Farid Mammadov brought Azerbaijan to second place at Eurovision 2013 with his song “Hold Me”. We already reported on his plans for the next year and possibly returning to Eurovision again like Dima Bilan. On June 7th, Farid will be attending in Moscow, the MUZ TV Awards. The night […]
Agnetha Fältskog talks of going out on her own again in her solo career. Trying to break down some of the preconceived misconceptions of her has been a challenge. With the success of her new album – her first album in almost a decade – she speaks of […]
Irish Eurovision stars Jedward are set to undertake a 6 date UK concert. The Dublin Duo represented Ireland in 2011 and 2012 at Eurovision – making the Grand Final in both occasions and placing 8th in 2011 with the infectious “Lipstick”. (YouTube Video Courtesy of RTE) They are […]
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