BIRTHDAY: Geir Rönning is 57 today False flag time again. It’s a close thing, with the Nordics. They’re very close culturally, so someone moving between them isn’t that noteworthy. So perhaps there’s no false flag after all. Finland is an interesting case. Nordic, but not quite that Nordic. […]
JESC BIRTHDAY: Angélina Nava from France is 13 today Angélina took part in JESC and was runner-up to Poland’s Roksana Węgiel. Happy birthday, Angélina! Author: John Stanton Source: Eurovision Ireland
OBITUARY: Gay Byrne has died aged 85 Tributes have been pouring in after the death was announced of Irish broadcaster Gay Byrne. Whilst he is not someone you would automatically with Eurovision, he was nevertheless connected. Gabriel Mary ‘Gay’ Byrne may be best remembered as the host of […]
The Czech Republic have confirmed their participation in next year’s Eurovision Young Musicians – to be held in Zagreb, Croatia. It is currently unknown whether their entry will be chosen through a National Final or an Internal Selection. Author: Richard Taylor Source: Eurovoix
JESC BIRTHDAY: Irina Brodić from Serbia is 15 today Irina performed at JESC 2017 with Jana Paunović. Author: John Stanton Source: Eurovision Ireland
BIRTHDAY: Gianni Mascolo from Switzerland is 79 today In those days before the free language, did you wish that your country could sing in any language it chose? Or do you think Eurovision should ditch the rule? If you were Swiss, you had the choice of four languages […]
BIRTHDAY: Pearl Carr from the UK is 96 today It’s good to go right back at time. For those that don’t know, there was once a contest with only ten songs. Can you imagine that now? Well, compared to that, 1959 was a bumper edition. In that year, […]
JESC BIRTHDAY: Josie Zec is 19 today Josie took part in the 2014 Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Malta, with the song Game over. Happy birthday, Josie. Author: John Stanton Source: Eurovision Ireland
BIRTHDAY: Tijana Bogićević from Serbia is 38 today Balkan, Balkan, Balkan. And so on. That’s where we are today, and things have a definite Cyrillic flavour. We’re with a country that burst onto the Eurovision scene in 2007. That’s Serbia. Yes, the place who’s capital is Belgrade had […]
November has arrived, which can only mean one thing – Happy JESC month!!! Over the coming weeks, we will looking at each of this year’s participants on the lead up to the Contest. But to celebrate the start of the month, here is a recap of all of […]
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