FINLAND: Live blog of UMK 2019 from 19.00 CET After three weeks of reveals, Finland picks which of Darude’s song will be flying the blue-and-white cross in Tel Aviv in May. Broadcaster Yleisradio is keeping things simple. Three songs by Darude and his pal Sebastian Rejman are in […]
PORTUGAL: Festival da Canção gives us four more finalists The people of Portugal have picked four more songs to compete in next weeks Grand Final of Festival da Canção in Portimão. They join the four picked a week ago. What are the four songs? Igual a ti by […]
UKRAINE: Maruv wins Vidbir 2019 Ukraine has chosen! Maruv will represent her country at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv with Siren song. She won the televote and was second in the jury vote. Here’s the winning song: Do you like what Ukraine’s chosen? Does it […]
PORTUGAL: Live blog of Festival da Canção semi-final two from 22.05 CET In Portugal, we’ll be a little closer knowing who’ll be brandishing the golden ticket. The second semi-final of Festival da Canção will see four songs out of eight progressing to next week’s grand Final in Portimão. […]
FINLAND: Darude reveals third and final UMK song As we know, Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu is the Finnish selection for Eurovision. This year, Darude and Sebastian Rejman will be carrying hopes and sending one of three songs. Today we heard the third, called Look away. Here it is. The first […]
ESTONIA: Interview with Stig Rästa at Eesti Laul 2019 Eurovision Ireland caught up with Stig Rästa after his song-writing victory at Eesti Laul 2019. He co-wrote Storm with Vallo Kikas, Fred Krieger and Victor Crone. He tells us about his third Eesti Laul victory and, more importantly, a […]
ESTONIA: Interview woth Victor Crone Eurovision Ireland caught up with Victor Crone after his win at Eesti Laul 2019. He tells us about his evening’s experiences, his thoughts on Tel Aviv, and – that most important of questions – the sweet stuff. Victor has co-written Storm with Stig […]
ESTONIA: Victor Crone storms to Tel Aviv for Eurovision Victor Crone will be representing Estonia in Tel Aviv after a night of fun and drama in Tallinn. He will sing the song Storm, which he co-wrote with Stig Rästa, Vallo Kikas and Fred Krieger. In two rounds of […]
Tonight we had the EMA 2019, the show that decides Slovenia’s representative at Eurovision Song Contest. After 10 acts competed in the final, two acts went through to the Superfinal. In the end Zara Kralj & Gašper Šantl won with the song Sebi. What do you think of […]
POLAND: Tulia to represent his/her/their country in Tel Aviv Poland has dispensed with a national final this year, and broadcaster TVP has chosen their representative internally. At a recent it announced, TVP revealed that Tulia will sing at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv. Patrycja Nowicka, […]