A story appeared in Dutch media claiming that Waylon from the Common Linnets has disappeared, so we thought this needed some further investigation. Waylon is half of The Common Linnets who shot to European fame at Eurovision this year when they came second in the contest with their song “The […]
The Netherlands – Last year saw the return of Dutch Eurovision Fortunes when Anouk took the 4 times winning country back to the Top 10 at the contest. On her return she got the ‘Big Band’ treatment of her song “Birds”. Well it would have been rude if […]
The official UK charts have just been released and there are no fewer that 13 Eurovision 2014 songs in the Top 100 and 4 of them in the prestigious Top 40. The Common Linnets may have come second to Conchita at Eurovision 2014 with their song “Calm After The […]
Ireland may have missed on the taking part in the Grand Final of Eurovision 2014 but that has not stopped the music buying public from making this year the biggest chart success for the contest. The Irish Charts were released today and there are no fewer than 20 […]
Every year the Marcel Bezençon Awards were awarded at the Eurovision Song Contest. As usual there were 3 awards the Press Award, an Artistic Award and the Composer Award. The Press Award (voted for by the International Press) was won by Austria’s Conchita Wurst and for her song […]
After a hoax snippet and then an acoustic performance last night – we eventually get to hear the Eurovision version of the “Calm After The Storm” by the Common Linnets. On Dutch radio an hour ago the duo presented their song as we will hear it at Eurovision. […]
After this morning’s hoax, tonight we actually got to hear the first play – acoustic version – of the Dutch entry to Eurovision by The Common Linnets. The song is “Calm After The Storm”. It is a slow meandering mid tempo country ballad? Does country music work at […]
Netherlands – It seems that they are determined to premier their song “Calm After The Storm” as many times as possible as their song was allegedly leaked this morning on radio. An acoustic version of the song will be aired tonight March 12th with the Eurovision version premiered […]
“Calm After The Storm” – Is not a reference to the hiatus that has emerged after Round 3 in the Anouk versus Ilse DeLange regular media boxing match but is the song that “The Common Linnets” will perform at Eurovision for the Netherlands. An acoustic version of the […]