#IRELAND: The story behind ‘Together’ ‘Together’ received its first airplay on 9 March on the Ray D’Arcy show on RTÉ Radio 1. It was later played by Chris and Ciara filling in on Eoghan McDermott’s show on 2FM. The video depicts a young couple strolling through the streets of […]
#IRELAND: #AllAboard as the song and video are revealed At last we have news from Ireland. RTÉ and Ryan O’Shaughnessy has unveiled the song that they hope will capture that eighth victory for Ireland. Ryan will perform in the second half of the first semi-final on Tuesday 8 […]
#GREECE: Gianna Terzi’s official video release Greece will finally release the official video of its song ‘Oneiro mou’ for the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest. We’ve already seen the lyric video, but here we are with the one you’ll be watching as nauseum (along with 42 others) between now […]
#PORTUGAL: Cláudia Pascoal wins Festival da Canção! The people of Portugal have spoken, and will be sending Cláudia Pascoal to the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest to try and do the double. She will sing O jardim. She tied with Catarina Miranda and her song ‘Para sorrir não preciso […]
#PORTUGAL: #AllAboard for the Live Blog of Festival da Canção from 22.00 CET The last automatic finalists of the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest gets picked tonight in sunny Guimarães. After two semi-finals, we have the 14 best songs who are after a trip to, erm, sunny Lisbon. You […]
#SWEDEN: Last four finalists of Melodifestivalen chosen Things continue in Sweden, and the full list of finalists is known after the Andra Chansen round of Melodifestivalen, taking place in Kristianstad. As you may know, the format is in the form of duels, with the eight songs being cut […]
#FINLAND: Saara Aalto to sing Monsters at Eurovision 2018 Finland (and an international jury) have decided to send ‘Monsters‘ to the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon. It won both the vote of both the international jury and the public vote. Here’s the winning song: Are you happy […]
#FINLAND: #AllAboard for the Live Blog of UMK at 18.00 CET Finnish broadcaster tonight chooses a song to represent Finland at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest. As we already know, Saara Aalto will fly the flag. But which song will she take with her? Tonight we’ll see her […]
#ARMENIA: Sevak Khanagyan is #AllAboard for Lisbon Armenia has chosen Sevak Khanagyan to represent them at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon in May. He will sing the song ‘Qami’. It was the only song in Armenian. He scored the maximum votes from both the profession jury […]
#ARMENIA: #AllAboard for the Live Blog of Depi Evratesil from 19.15CET Over in Armenia, they’ll be picking a representative for the contest at the other end of Europe (for them anyway). Two semi-finals have cut the field down to 10 songs. We’ll be blogging the show for you, […]