#ESC 2021: Day Three Rehearsals Blog from 10.00 CET (9.00 BST) What an Experience Eurovision is! This last weekend the official rehearsals started and today we ‘ll see the first rehearsal for the first half of Semi Final 2. REMEMBER: This year the first run through of each […]
#ESC2021: Eurovision Ireland scores… Day Two Another day over, and nine more songs rehearsed. The five of us at Eurovision Ireland gave what we saw our considered opinion, and awarded our favourites of the day 5, 4, 3, 2 and one point. This means a top score of […]
Welcome to our fifth country-specific #AtoZ series. During the National Final season, we started to look at a different country alphabetically each week. This week, during the first week of rehearsals at the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest, we are looking at The Netherlands and today we are looking […]
#ESC2021: Eurovision Ireland reviews… Semi-final One We’ve seen all the semi-finalists – except Australia – rehearse for the first time. Lots can still change, but we may now have an idea who the ten qualifiers could be. Click on the video below and see what the Eurovision Ireland […]
We are at the end of Day 2, when the first rehearsals for the Semi Final 1 have finished. Here is the evolution of the Top 10 according to the bookies. France (+1) Malta (-1) Switzerland (N) Italy (N) Bulgaria (N) Iceland (N) Lithuania (N) Cyprus (+1) Sweden […]
#BIRTHDAY: Kojo from Finland is 68 today In our favourite TV show, it’s easy to be winners one day, tail-enders the next. Hero to zero, or vice versa. It’s all good fun. We love them all, as they’ve done something most of us will never do. Today’s birthday […]
Let’s face it… the last 18 months have been anything but ordinary!! And in these strange times of COVID, social distancing and frantic hand washing, even Eurovision has undergone massive changes to ensure the event we know and love can go ahead. We all knew it was going […]
Over the course of April and May, on the lead up to the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest, we will be celebrating the countries that are participating this year in Rotterdam. Today, we celebrate the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom debuted at the Contest in 1957, in Frankfurt-am-Main, West […]
#ESC 2021: Day Two Rehearsals Blog from 10.00 CET After the best part of two years, we finally get a proper rehearsal of performances for a Eurovision Song Contest! Yes, at 09.00 BST/10.00 CET we kick off with the first songs from the First Semi-Final. REMEMBER: This year […]
Eesti Laul 2022 will be shown live on Spanish television, after ERR, the Estonian national broadcaster agreed terms with TEN, the Spanish independent broadcaster. This is the first successful attempt at TEN broadcasting Eurovision national selections. Earlier this year (2021), TEN were unsuccessful in securing the live rights […]