As you may know, Portugal’s Salvador Sobral was not well in Kyiv, and only spent the second week of rehearsals in the city. Fast forward to September, and he had to cut short a music tour he was undertaking. Here’s footage from RTP of his last concert… for […]
MALTA: PBS announces first selection stage for Lisbon Maltese national broadcaster PBS/TVM has revealed that it’s already at an advanced stage in its quest for a song for Lisbon. Whilst the Malta Eurovision Song Contest – the televised selection show – is all set for February, the initial […]
Ireland is getting ahead of the game for the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest. Here’s the press release from broadcaster Raidío Teilifís Éireann: “RTÉ announced today that it is inviting accomplished songwriters and performers with a proven track record of success in the music industry to submit a song to […]
News has emerged that former Eurovision entrant Margot Hielscher has died, aged 97. She represented Germany in back-to-back contests in 1957 and 1958. Margot was born in 1919 in Berlin. During the 1940s she became a film star before having a go at the fledgling Eurovision Song Contest. […]
Performer of three Dutch entries in the 1970s, Sandra Reemer, has died at the age of 66. She succumbed to cancer after a long battle. Indonesian-born Sandra’s three attempts at Eurovision were in three subtly different guises. First, she collaborated with Andries Holten in Edinburgh in 1972. Their […]
As you will have seen on Thursday night, Brendan Murray was not one of the lucky ten acts to make it through to Saturday night’s Grand Final of the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest. Eurovision Ireland managed to get this quote from Brendan on his experiences this year. We […]
Here it is. It’s the draw for the Grand Final on Saturday night. 1. Israel 2. Poland 3. Belarus 4. Austria 5. Armenia 6. Netherlands 7. Moldova 8. Hungary 9. Italy 10. Denmark 11. Portugal 12. Azerbaijan 13. Croatia 14. Australia 15. Greece 16. Spain 17. Norway 18. […]
It’s not all work work work for Brendan Murray at Eurovision. He has been able to get out of the bubble and see a bit of the city. And what a beautiful city it is by the pictures below. Watch Brendan sing tonight in the second semi-final at […]
Eurovision Ireland got access to the exclusive Red Carpet event in Kyiv. All of the acts showed off their best frocks and outfits and strutted their stuff on a swelteringly sunny day near the Maryinskiy Palace in Kyiv. We caught up with some of the acts. They told us […]
Eurovision Ireland got almost exclusive access to the Irish party held at O’Brien’s Irish pub in central Kyiv. Brendan and his team laid on a small affair that featured him singing a few songs, including ‘Dying to try’. Also there were guest appearances from Tijana from Serbia, Claudia […]