During the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest, Sam Ryder secured the United Kingdom a record sixteenth second placing. The last time the United Kingdom reached this position was in 1998, one year after their last victory. Today we conclude our look back at the second placings. 1992 Micheal Ball […]
1993 Swedish Eurovision Song Contest finalist and multiple Melodifestivalen finalists, Arvingarna, have released a brand new album – “Tänker inte alls gå hem”. “Tänker inte alls gå hem” was their Melodifestivalen entry this year. The English version of “Tänker inte alls gå hem”, “Never Going Home” also features […]
1993 Swedish Eurovision Song Contest finalist and multiple Melodifestivalen finalists, Arvingarna, have released a brand new single – “Stannar du kvar”. The official video is to follow, but you can listen to “Stannar du kvar” below: Let us know what you think about Sweden at the Eurovision Song […]
Niamh Kavanagh has completed two stints at Tesco as a Customer Service Desk assistant during Lockdown, to help pay the bills. As an entertainer, all her work dried up after large indoor gatherings were banned. Niamh had the following to say: “We still need to feed ourselves. It […]
Over the last 6 decades, 27 countries have won the Eurovision Song Contest, ranging from Portugal in the far west of mainland Europe, all the way across to Azerbaijan on the shores of the Caspian Sea. This also means that just over half of all countries to have […]
For those of you that have already seen the official video, will realise Taylor Hynes is joined by some familiar Eurovision Song Contest alumni. Niamh Kavanagh (1993 Winner & 2010 Finalist) and Ryan O’Shaughnessy (2018 Finalist) join Taylor. For Ryan O’Shaughnessy, this will make a change to feature […]
Lights! Camera! Action! Bosnia recently hit the Eurovision headlines for BHRT’s debts and what this could mean for the country’s participation in future contests (read about it here). But now we have some much more positive news! According to our friends over at Eurovisionary, the story of Bosnia’s […]
If you are a fan of Eurovision then this will be very sad news. Anita Notaro was the tour de force responsible for directing the Eurovision Song Contest in 1993 from Millstreet in Ireland. The 1993 contest was brought from the small village of Millstreet in County Cork […]
Ireland’s Eurovision Winning Star, Niamh Kavanagh, is set to tour the length and breath of Ireland starting from this weekend. If you have not had the pleasure of attending a Niamh Kavanagh and her band “The Illegals” concert, then you should really get to one of her upcoming […]
80’s pop starlet Sonja will this year mark her 20th Anniversary of coming second in the nail-biting Eurovision in Millstreet in 1993. It all came down to the last vote of the contest from Malta, that denied Sonja a victory at Eurovision. Ireland’s Niamh Kavanagh was the eventual […]
(Photograph Courtesy of HRT) HRT (Croation National Broadcaster) had announced that this year at Eurovision 2013 they would revert to a traditional “Klapa” to fly the flag of the nation in Sweden. Today 6 male singers were selected by Maestro Mojmir Čačija . He will also be responsible […]
How many times are we reminded that Eurovision was created to overcome political differences and unite the continent through cultural exchange. Well in a unpressedented economic environment “Politics and Eurovision” are taking centre stage in Greece. I feel that I am doing the “Hokey Pokey” dance where Greece are […]