Norway’s Carl Espen brought us one of the most intimate of songs at Eurovision 2014 with ‘Silent Storm’ but he is no longer prepared to be ‘Holding On’ to this Nordic angst for much longer as he releases the official video for his new and rather uplifting song […]
‘How do you solve a problem like Maria’ saw just one nun singing in Austria in ‘The Sound of Music’. However there are SIX Maltese nuns who want to set Austria alight next year and they are one of the 48 shortlisted acts for the Maltese Eurovision entry […]
Can those costumes be tighter, have more sequins and feather boas – And that is just the men! Yes it is ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ on the BBC. We are on ‘Strictly Eurovision’ watch following Eurovision commentator Scott Mills and Blue’s Simon Webbe (Woof)! Scott Mills took to the […]
Set your clocks for November 2nd. ‘Through the night…with Eurovision winner Conchita Wurst and Jean-Paul Gaultier’ will be aired. Yes the ‘European Dynamic Duo’ are set to take over the airwaves on November 2nd on ARTE.TV the French/German Cultural Channel You remember that Jean-Paul Gaultier visited Conchita in […]
Eduard Romanyuta has been a finalist in the Ukrainian Eurovision selection on 3 occasions (2011-2013). He is hoping that NTU (Ukrainian National Broadcaster) will revert their decision to not attend Eurovision 2015. Why is that? Well the answer is that the singer has a song called ‘I Want […]
George Ezra and Eurovision. Something that we were not expecting the young British singer-songwriter to reveal on the BBC’s Graham Norton Show last night but the ‘Budapest’ singer was all confessions. On the show last night in the UK, George Ezra spoke of how his monster hit ‘Budapest’ […]
48 acts have been shortlisted and announced by PBS (Maltese National Broadcaster) for their Eurovision 2015 selection. There are a lot of familiar names that people will know from Eurovision, the Maltese National selection and the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. Shortlisted Acts SONG/SINGER 12, BAKER STREET – […]
Macedonian National Broadcaster (MRT) have announced the 20 acts that will compete for the honour of representing Macedonia at Eurovision 2015. There are some familiar faces! Skopjefest will be taking place on November 12th in Skopje – and Eurovision Ireland will be there to cover the event live. […]
Marija Šerifović winning Eurovision 2007. Photo : YouTube RTS (Serbian National Broadcaster) have today officially announced that they will host a national final for their Eurovision 2015 selection. Composer Vladimir Graić, who composed ‘Moliotva’ for Marija Šerifović that won the Eurovision song contest for Serbia in 2007, will write 3 […]
Last year Eurovision winner Niamh Kavanagh was one of the special guests at the inaugural ‘The Outing’ festival in Lisdoonvarna in Ireland. This year the organisers have grown the music and match making festival and it will again have a Eurovision flavour. Brian Kennedy who came 10th at […]