IRELAND: Interview with Sarah McTernan at LEP 2019 Eurovision Ireland was lucky enough to catch up with our representative Sarah McTernan, just before the London Eurovision Party at the Café de Paris near Leicester Square. Sarah told us about her time recording her postcard in Israel and her […]
BIRTHDAY: Alla Pugacheva from Russia is 70 today We get heroes performing at our favourite TV show every year. But it’s not every day that we get a People’s Artist of their country – the highest award their country can bestow a performer. Not only is today’s birthday […]
Winter is here… And so is Eurovision! Although it might not seem like it at a first glance, HBO’s hit TV adaptation Game of Thrones and the Eurovision Song Contest do have quite a bit in common: people from far-away lands, speakers of different languages and with different […]
BIRTHDAY: Jacques Houdek from Croatia is 38 today Singer, writer. It’s a well-trodden path. If you’re a singer worth your salt, you may have dabbled in songwriting too. It implies that you can sing, and understand how music properly works. No, I’m not rambling. I’m leading up to […]
BIRTHDAY: Mando from Greece is 53 today Have you noticed that the last few birthdays have featured singers using stage names. Maybe it’s a thing to give them a completely different persona to the off-stage singer. But it’s interesting that stage names can be very different to real […]
OBITUARY: Dina from Portugal has died aged 62 Singer Dina, who represented Portugal in the 1992 Eurovision Song Contest, has died after a short illness aged 62. She sang in the contest held in Malmö’s Isstadion on 9 May 1992, performing the song Amor d’agua fresca, co-written by […]
BIRTHDAY: Deen from Bosnia & Herzegovina is 37 today As we saw yesterday, Eurovision throws up performances as well as songs. Do they detract, or does a song need some form of gimmick to do well? St Salvador of Sobral didn’t think so, but they do sometimes help. […]
During last weekend’s Amsterdam In Concert – the first of this year’s Preview Parties, Sarah McTernan took to the stage with the Irish entry “22”. This will not be the only Preview Party Sarah will be attending. We hope to catch up with her in London this weekend […]
Last weekend in Amsterdam, Ryan O’Shaughnessy joined up with SuRie to perform “Mercy” – last year’s French entry at the Eurovision Song Contest, performed by Madame Monsieur. The performance took place at Amsterdam Calling, on the eve of Amsterdam In Concert – the first of this year’s Preview […]
BIRTHDAY: Mélovin from Ukraine is 22 today We all know that the road to Eurovision is not always easy. All sorts of things can get in the way of that song a country selects for the hallowed stage in [insert city here]. It’s definitely true this year. As […]
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