#BIRTHDAY: Mr Lordi from Finland is 51 today There have been winners and there have been winners. From those nice safe ballads, some clucks, women dancing on boxes, people ripping clothes off. And so on. And then there was what happened in 2006. Yes, there were contests as […]
#POLAND: And the winner is… Polish broadcaster TVP has just finished its national final to choose a song for the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest in Basel in May. Eleven songs were in the mix, and the winner was chosen by 100% public voting. And that winner is… Justyna […]
#POLAND: Live blog of Polskie Kwalifikacje from 20.45 CET Poland have always been enthusiastic about Eurovision, and tonight hold their national final to pick an entrant for the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest in Basel in May. Eleven acts will be vying for the Golden Ticket, and public voting […]
#BIRTHDAY: Andrea from North Macedonia is 25 today It’s going to become a thing over the coming years that more and more performers in our favourite TV show were born after 1 January 2000. These 21st Century-ers were once a novelty but they might now start to make […]
#BIRTHDAY: Niamh Kavanagh is 57 today If you’re a winner of our favourite TV show, you’ll be among very elite company. in 68 editions, only 69 different acts have won it. Some rightly, some questionably. But out of those 69 winners, only four have an even more unique […]
#BIRTHDAY: Ajda Pekkan from Türkiye is 79 today What’s the oddest subject of a Eurovision song you can think of? Many things have been covered, mostly about falling in love with someone, or falling out of love with someone. Today we have a song about fuel. No, not […]
#BIRTHDAY: Simone de Oliveira from Portugal is 87 today Do you go to the contests, wherever they are held? Have you been to any? In particular, did you go to the fest in Portugal in 2018? If so, you may have witnessed something wonderful. If you were there, […]
#BIRTHDAY: Sandra Studer-Simò from Switzerland is 56 today What to do with your life once you’ve been a Eurovision performer? Well, you could try again. But then you risk doing worse on your second attempt than your first. Or you go into songwriting. That means if things go […]
#BIRTHDAY: Gérard Lenorman from France is 80 today Our favourite TV show has a rich history, and it’s good to dig deep sometimes, to pick out those songs you won’t here every day. They won’t feature in a Top 250, or in a Eurovision disco. But they’re still […]
After a night to remember in Ta’Qali, the curtain is down on another Malta Eurovision Song Contest. And what a show it was! The votes have been cast and the winner has been declared – the next act for Eurovision 2025 is ready, but who is it? The […]