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 Lithuania. Lithuania debuted at the Contest in 1994, in Dublin, Ireland. Ovidijus Vyšniauskas finished in […]
We can all recall the disappointment of the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest being cancelled last year and probably no-one was as disappointed as all the 2020 performers , who were putting their hearts and souls into producing great performances for us in May 2020 . However, whilst many […]
#BIRTHDAY: Aram MP3 from Armenia is 37 today It’s always daunting being first on in a song contest. It’s bad enough if you get the Saturday night gig. But if you get first on in the first semi-final, you must be really worried. It’s long been the graveyard […]
#BIRTHDAY: Nathan Trent from Austria is 29 today Do you have a favourite stage prop of all time? Is it a staircase used by the UK in 2009? The collection of pictures of ladies used by Italy in 1963? Or even a glitter ball used by Belarus in […]
This week we are celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the 1971 Eurovision Song Contest, on Saturday 3rd April – the first to be held in Ireland and the only Contest to be held at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin. Over the course of the week, culminating on the 50th […]
This week we are celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the 1971 Eurovision Song Contest, on Saturday 3rd April – the first to be held in Ireland and the only Contest to be held at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin. Over the course of the week, culminating on the 50th […]
#BIRTHDAY: Michalis Rakintzis from Greece is 64 today Things got a little odd at the turn of the century. We were trapped in Nordic/Baltic Europe after time in the eastern Med. Countries were taking it in turns to be relegated. And we had some interesting acts. When we […]
James was lucky enough to catch up with Kateryna Pavlenko and Taras Shevchenko from the electro-folk band Go_A, who will be representing Ukraine at the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 with the song “Shum”! How have the band been keeping busy during the global COVID-19 pandemic? What do have […]
#BIRTHDAY: Lucía from Spain is 57 today It’s noticeable that Eurovision song titles are getting shorter. Year after year we get these one-word titles, with the word in question often buried deeply in the lyric of the song. It’s as if there’s no imagination. But these one-word titles […]
Building on the success of our Best of the Big 5 series, Eurovision Ireland is broadening its search for your favourite entries from countries across the continent, spanning the contest’s entire back catalogue. On our tour of Scandinavia, so far we’ve checked off Iceland and Finland – now […]
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