#BIRTHDAY: Jendrik from Germany is 28 today Eurovision is an odd thing. The songs stoke emotions that are sometimes quite strong. How is it that a combination of notes can be loved or hated so much? And hate can be such a strong word. In sunny Rotterdam, not […]
#BIRTHDAY: Montaigne from Australia is 27 today After a couple of years of up-in-the-airness, our favourite TV show is getting more back on an even keel. Yes, that’s a mix of metaphors but we can at least be hopeful for 2023. Now in all the contests since 1956, […]
#BIRTHDAY: Daði Freyr from Iceland is 30 today Do you ever see social media posts telling us about ‘the real winner’? It’s clear that the ‘real winner’ is the one that gets the most points under the rules in place of the time. You might not like it, […]
#BIRTHDAY: Gjon’s Tears from Switzerland is 24 today As we know, past performance is no guarantee of future performance. As saw in Torino/Turin, a certain country who were runners-up in 2021 finished 24th in 2022. One country that could be worth watching is Switzerland. Places in the last […]
#BIRTHDAY: Rafał from Poland is 41 today What did you make of the 2021 contest in Rotterdam. Did we get the result at the top of the leaderboard we deserve? Were there any injustices further down the list? Should a losing semi-finalists have really made it? We know […]
#BIRTHDAY: Uku Suviste from Estonia is 40 today We’ve got another of the Class of 2021 today. You know the Class – Some of them were the unlucky ones from the Class of 2020, who were given another chance. And we know that those alumni from both the […]
#BIRTHDAY: Eden Alene from Israel is 22 today It’s always good to get a second chance. It gives you the opportunity to right a wrong. Or actually do something you were lined up to do, but never got there. Like those performers who should have been in Rotterdam […]
#BIRTHDAY: Efendi from Azerbaijan is 31 today It was in 2020 when things changed. That contest we were all looking forward to in Rotterdam was almost upon us, and then it got cancelled. Luckily, for many of the acts chosen, they got a free pass to 2021 when […]
#BIRTHDAY: Ana Soklič from Slovenia is 38 today For all time, we’ll have a large number of performers who missed out on the cancelled 2020 contest, only to be recruited for the 2021 festival instead. They are now members of a very exclusive club. Today’s birthday girl Ana […]
#INTERVIEW: Victoria at the the 2022 London Eurovision Party Eurovision Ireland caught up with Bulgaria’s Victoria at the Hard Rock Hotel near London’s Marble Arch. As you’ll know, she represented her country in Rotterdam in 2021. She told us about her life since last May, and of course […]