The Buranovskiye Babushki or more fondly known as “The Russian Grannies” who represented Russia at Eurovision 2012 with the infectious “Party for Everyone”, took to the streets of London yesterday to open the “Maslenitsa Festival” of Russian Folk Music. Hailing from Buranovo, they were already a household name in Russia before […]
(Photograph courtesy of http://www.riccioneshotels.com) San Marino have just “retweeted” their Eurovision 2012 entry for Malmo. Yes it is true. Valentina Monetta will be flying the flag for San Marino again at Eurovision in 2013. For the second year in a row SMTV (San Marino National Broadcaster) has internally […]
(Photograph Courtesy of eurovision-addict.blogspot.com) Melodifestivalen 2013 will select Sweden’s own representative to Eurovision this year in Malmo. For several weeks now Swedish Broadcaster SVT has been teasing viewers with trailers for the show featuring the presenters of the contest – Gina Dirawi and Danny Saucedo. Both have been seen running […]
(Photograph Courtesy of eurovision-addict.blogspot.com) “In A Moment Like This” the Danish Eurovision Fans must be excited! Tonight we have the final of Dansk Melodi Grand Prix (DMGP) 2013 , and Danish Broadcaster DR are promising the biggest Danish National Final ever. This will be a close call as […]
Who will represent Slovenia at Eurovision 2013 in Malmo? Slovenia have always been the Bridesmaid and not the bride when it comes to the Balkan countries success at Eurovision despite being some of the pre contest favourites. I’ve always wanted to go to Slovenia, I’m not sure why, […]
(Photograph courtesy of Plixid.com) Who will represent France at Eurovision 2013 in Malmo? Well that decision was confirmed yesterday by France 3 – National Broadcaster. An internal committee of French Music experts including – writers, composers, lyricists, singers and managers – met and decided that the best candidate to represent […]
(Photograph Courtesy of frida.stalnacke@svt.se) Swedish Broadcaster SVT have just released the first images of what the Melodifestivalen 2013 stage will look like. Viktor Brattström and Frida Arvidsson are the designers tasked with developing this year’s Melodifestivalen stage. They began work on the project in the Summer of 2012 and […]
Who will represent Armenia at Eurovision 2013? Well it was first reported by some media outlets that an internal selection would be made and that the front-runner was the 2008 Armenian entrant – and most successful to date – Sirusho. (YouTube Video Courtesy of TheSvet9) AMPTV – […]
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 […]
(Photograpy Courtesy of TRM) Who will represent Moldova at Eurovision 2013 in Malmo, Sweden? Well National Broadcaster TRM have just released the first successful 9 songs that will compete in their National Selection process – and we have Irish interest. Follow the link below to listen to all the […]