Next year, Melodi Grand Prix will be celebrating it’s 60th anniversary in a special way. MGP will have five semi finals (all in Oslo), along with the traditional Oslo based final. Each of the five semi finals will feature artists from a particular region of Norway – Northern, […]
Denmark, one of the original participants at the inaugural Eurovision Choir in Riga, has been added to the participation list for Gothenburg. DR were in talks with the European Broadcasting Union following the release of the original participation list. Catalonia’s TV3 could still appear as a possible debutant […]
BIRTHDAY: Sopho Gelovani from Georgia is 35 today Songs get some by performers in many forms. I like soloists as they can put everything into their singing. I also like groups as they can share the load and bounce off each other. And then there are duets. Duets […]
BIRTHDAY: Lucie Jones from the UK is 28 today What do you think of the Big Five? Should they get an automatic place in the final, or should they have to go through the semi-finals like the rest of us? It’s true that the Big Five do have […]
Yes, you did just read that correctly – the much talked about Icelandic band Hatari now have a stitching patten! The pattern was designed by Sigríður Jóhannsdóttir, who claims he is a huge fan of “music and yarn.” He posted the pattern on his Facebook page and asked […]
BIRTHDAY: Christine Gulbrandsen from Norway is 34 today What do you think of the free language rule? Is it a good thing, in that it allows people all over Europe to understand what you’re trying to say? Or does it kill national identity? Many of our Nordic neighbours […]
BIRTHDAY: Martine Clémenceau from France is 70 today 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 you. I […]
Just one week ago, the final of this year’s Melodifestivalen took place in Sweden, concluding the National Final season for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. It’s time to look back to last weekend – in the form of numbers: The stage was 22 metres wide and 11 metres […]
It’s been exactly a week now since all the songs for Eurovision 2019 were released. You’ve made your Top 10s and have your favourites, but now the dust has settled and everyone has had a chance to hear everything – what are the bookies thinking? We deliberately waited […]
IRELAND: Happy St Patrick’s Day! It’s that time of year again when everyone becomes just a little Irish. And what’s another year, you might cry. Well, on this most Irish of days, we’ve put together a short list of tunes that demonstrate Irishness. We think so anyway. These […]