#POLAND: Live blog of Polskie Kwalifikacje from 20.45 CET Poland have always been enthusiastic about Eurovision, and tonight hold their national final to pick an entrant for the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest in Basel in May. Eleven acts will be vying for the Golden Ticket, and public voting […]
#BIRTHDAY: Andrea from North Macedonia is 25 today It’s going to become a thing over the coming years that more and more performers in our favourite TV show were born after 1 January 2000. These 21st Century-ers were once a novelty but they might now start to make […]
#BIRTHDAY: Niamh Kavanagh is 57 today If you’re a winner of our favourite TV show, you’ll be among very elite company. in 68 editions, only 69 different acts have won it. Some rightly, some questionably. But out of those 69 winners, only four have an even more unique […]
#BIRTHDAY: Ajda Pekkan from Türkiye is 79 today What’s the oddest subject of a Eurovision song you can think of? Many things have been covered, mostly about falling in love with someone, or falling out of love with someone. Today we have a song about fuel. No, not […]
#BIRTHDAY: Sandra Studer-Simò from Switzerland is 56 today What to do with your life once you’ve been a Eurovision performer? Well, you could try again. But then you risk doing worse on your second attempt than your first. Or you go into songwriting. That means if things go […]
#BIRTHDAY: Gérard Lenorman from France is 80 today Our favourite TV show has a rich history, and it’s good to dig deep sometimes, to pick out those songs you won’t here every day. They won’t feature in a Top 250, or in a Eurovision disco. But they’re still […]
#LATVIA: And the winner is… The 2025 SUPERNOVA Selection has just ended and we have a winner in Latvia. After a combination of public and jury voting, the song going to Basel in May will be Tautumeitas with “Bur man laimi”. What do you think of Tautumeitas chances? […]
#UKRAINE: And the winner is… Ukraine’s selection process for the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest in Basel in May has just concluded. Ten acts had made it to the final of Vidbir. But who won? After a combination of Jury and public voting, the song going to Switzerland is… […]
#UKRAINE: Live blog of Vidbir 2025 from 17.30CET The national finals are coming thick and fast this weekend. Today includes the turn of Ukraine – a country you can never write off, as they definitely ‘get’ Eurovision. Ten acts are competing for the lucky Golden Ticket to Basel. […]
#BIRTHDAY: Andrea Szulák from Hungary is 61 today There are a few areas of the Eurovision world that are very cunningly tucked away. So tucked away that people often forget they’re there. Like a certain event in Ljubljana in 1993. Was it a semi-final? Was it a pre-selection? […]