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. We’ve covered the Big 5 and Scandinavia – and our penultimate stop on our tour […]
BBC Radio 2 are replaying their Friday Night Is Music Night concert featuring Conchita tonight – 8pm GMT/9pm CET. Originally the concert aired the Friday night before the Eurovision Song Contest Final, earlier this year in May. So if you missed it first time around because you were […]
Tonight on BBC Radio 2, there is a special edition of ‘Friday Night Is Music Night’. Tonight’s Concert is entirely hosted by Conchita herself. Conchita will perform hits from her own back catalogue, the musicals and much, much more. She will also be joined on stage by Mica […]
#SPAIN: Live blog of Operación Triunfo from 22.30 CET Tonight is a special edition of Operación Triunfo, which will select Spain’s representative for the contest in Lisbon in May. No doubt all the participants are looking forward to travelling the short distance down the road to the nearest […]
On Sunday 25th February, Conchita will be returning to the London stage – at the London Palladium to be precise! Accompanied by the BBC Concert Orchestra, Conchita will be performing some of her favourite ‘Diva’ songs, as part of BBC Radio 2’s “Friday Night Is Music Night” – […]
Last night Vienna was the host city of the 24th edition of Life Ball. The Life Ball is the biggest charity event in Europe supporting people with HIV or AIDS. The event is organized by the nonprofit organization AIDS LIFE, which was founded in 1992 by Gery Keszler and […]
Today is the national day of one of Eurovision’s more interesting countries. Back on 26 October 1955, the Austrian Parliament declared the country permanently neutral. As a result, that anniversary became Austria’s National Day. To celebrate, let’s take a look at some of Austria’s entries in our favourite TV show […]
Today we celebrate a little experiment that happened exactly 60 years ago on a cloudy and wet night in Lugano Switzerland. Seven countries had gathered to enter a song into a European song competition to see whether the idea of different music, language and culture could combine to make […]
Our sweet diva Conchita added an exclusive cover of Prince’s ‘Purple Rain’ into her set list on Friday night in Linz. In true Conchita style it was a flawless performance, full of emotion and perfectly staged. It’s not the first time we’ve seen her sing it, you might […]
When she announced her tour to everyone back in January, I just knew I had to be there for her opening night! I have been a fan of Conchita’s ever since I was introduced to her by Eurovision Ireland in the run up to Eurovision 2014. By the […]
Following on from last weeks article highlighting some rather impressive Eurovision tattoos that fans have had inked into their skin (myself included!) So being Eurovision Ireland’s resident tattoo lover, I thought I’d have a look at some of my favourites tattoos we’ve seen on the Eurovision stages. Guy Sebastian Starting […]
I know, I know tattoos are not everyone’s cup of tea, but I confess I am a bit of an ink addict! I now have 12 and my latest one is a nod to my beloved Eurovision Song Contest. As the ink was setting I shared a picture […]
A few days ago there were a lot of posts across Facebook about the potential of Russia being the host nation for next year’s Eurovision Song Contest. With Sergey Lazarev and ‘You Are the Only One’ still leading the list of the Bookie’s favourites, Russia are going into […]
International Women’s Day (IWD), originally called International Working Women’s Day, is marked on March 8 every year. In different regions the focus of the celebrations ranges from general celebration of respect, appreciation and love towards women to a celebration for women’s economic, political and social achievements – And for that we are celebrating […]
Australia is inviting you to tune in to watch Conchita reveal their Act for Eurovision 2016 – and you can watch LIVE HERE SBS are pulling out all the stops to bring Australia closer to Europe. They will reveal their act for Stockholm at the Conchita : Love […]