#PORTUGAL: Live Blog of Festival da Canção 2023 from 22.00 CET Portugal concludes its quest for a second Eurovision victory tonight, with the Grand Final of the legendary Festival da Canção. Thirteen songs are competing for right to represent Portugal at the 67th Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool […]
#BIRTHDAY: Chingiz from Azerbaijan is 32 today Do you play any contests on repeat? Are you convinced that the xxth Eurovision Song Contest was the best one ever? Maybe your favourite is 2019. It has its high points, but I have other ones I like more. Talking of […]
#BIRTHDAY: Cornelia Jakobs from Sweden is 31 today We’ve often said that a gimmick can often help your quest for Eurovision glory. It’s usually something blindingly obvious, like a costume change or a big prop. But it’s not always so. In Torino/Turin, today’s birthday girl Cornelia Jakobs (née […]
#BIRTHDAY: Lotta Engberg from Sweden is 60 today We like to think that most of the best songs to come from Sweden were in the 1980s. Classic after classic after classic. Well, for us they are anyway. Sometimes the saying about less being more is a wise one. […]
After a rioutously entertaining night in Belgrade the votes of the juries and public have been counted and a winner has been chosen – Serbia has its Eurovision representative, but who is it? The winner of Pesmu za Evroviziju 23 and flying the Serbian flag at the Eurovision Song Contest […]
PORTUGAL: Live blog of Festival da Canção SF 2 from 22.00 CET Portugal continues its quest for a second Eurovision victory tonight, with the second semi-final of the legendary Festival da Canção. Ten songs are competing for the six remaining berths in the Grand Final, which takes place […]
#MOLDOVA: And the winner is… Moldovan broadcaster TRM has just finished selecting a song for the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool in May. Ten songs went in, but one proved victorious. After a combination of jury and public voting, the song going to Liverpool from Moldova is… […]
#MOLDOVA: Live Blog of Etapa Națională 2023 from 18.00 CET Tonight Moldova selects its song for the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool in May. Ten songs have made it to the the final, and will compete for the honour. You might recognise some of the names too. […]
#BIRTHDAY: Umberto Tozzi from Italy is 71 today Let’s go back to the 1980s. A world of orchestras, big hair, big shoulders, big everything. And a regular supply of the same countries taking part year in year out. That doesn’t always mean it was a bad thing. Our […]
Добро вече Европо и добро јутро Аустралија! Tonight Serbia decide their entrant for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, coming to us live from Liverpool on behalf of Ukraine – it’s time for Pesma za Evroviziju 23! Sit back and relax, and let Eurovision Ireland’s own James Scanlan entertain and inform […]