Trinity College Dublin – one of the world’s most prestigious universities will be hosting a Free lecture tonight on Eurovision 2013 and Eurovision in general. Though heavily criticised for its camp staging and the simplistic lyrics of many of its songs, the Eurovision Song Contest has survived for […]
Eurovision 2013 social media statistics have been released and they make for very interesting reading. These are primarily based on Irish Social Media networks but they do in fact throw some light on to the Top Social Media countries throughout Eurovision and the things they were talking of […]
In an interview with CNN France – UK Eurovision Contestant Bonnie Tyler has said on video ” “I heard the Russians complain: why you did not give ten points for which we paid? ” This is fuel to the fire over the Eurovision Scandal that just will not go away […]
Late last night the EBU decided to release the Jury and Public Split votes of the Eurovision Contest 2013. First note is that these figures were average rankings for every country in both jury and televoting.. Ranking the countries based on these average rankings mean very little, because they include […]
We have been waiting for the breakdown of the Jury and Tele voting from Eurovision 2013 with much anticipation. This was the first year where the ranking system was employed by the EBU. The juries ranked the 26 countries from 1 to 26 in order of preference where […]
We think capturing more young hearts and minds into the Eurovision community has a lot to do with how we use the Internet to promote Eurovision and what we love most about it. We Think the Internet has changed the way we enjoy it these last few years. Do you agree?
The Grand Final of Eurovision 2013 had not even taken place last Saturday before a report by a Lithuanian news agency claimed they had video footage of Azeri officials trying to buy televotes in Lithuania. This was followed up by claims that due to irregularities in the voting […]
Belarus Strikes Again It was with a certain degree of scepticism that we saw Alyona Lanskaya win the right to represent Belarus at Eurovision with ‘Rhythm of Love’ back in December. The reason for the scepticism was on account of last year’s debacle (see below) and that for the last […]
(Photograph courtesy of Нет версии с бо́льшим разрешением) At the end of last year Swiss band “Heilsarmee” won the National Eurovision Selection in Switzerland with the song “You and Me”. Following their victory there were doubts on whether they could enter the Eurovision Song Contest as “Heilsarmee” as […]
The draw has just taken place for the Semi Finals running order for Eurovision 2013 in Malmo, Sweden. Hosted by Pernilla Mansson Colt and supervised by Martin Osterdahl (SVT Executive Producer) and Jon Ola Sand (EBU -Executive Supervisor of the Eurovision Song Contest ) the draw took place in the beautiful Old City Hall in […]