The World Music Awards in Monte Carlo took place and there was a distinct Eurovision flavour to the proceedings. 2 former performers won big on the night. Anggun who represented France at Eurovision in 2012 came away with the award for Best Indonesian Artist (her homeland). The award […]
It seems that Russian President Vladimir Putin has taken the same tact as some of his senior politicians and spoken out about the recent win of Conchita Wurst at Eurovision 2014. One gets the very strong message that the Russian public gave in their high-ranking of Wurst in […]
Eurovision Winner Conchita Wurst is showing that her success at the contest has gone bigger and has captured the mainstream imagination of the public. This week saw her being interviewed on both BBC programmes “The One Show” and “Newsnight” – two of the BBC’s flagship shows for popular […]
Eurovision composer steps out into the spotlight with his new song. ‘Take My Body Close” could be a threat or a promise if I was singing it but in this instance it is thankfully an invitation from a Eurovision composer familiar to many across Europe. Our good friend […]
The Netherlands – Last year saw the return of Dutch Eurovision Fortunes when Anouk took the 4 times winning country back to the Top 10 at the contest. On her return she got the ‘Big Band’ treatment of her song “Birds”. Well it would have been rude if […]
UKRAINE – It seems that Zlata Ognevich has not been grounded “Like Gravity” as her star is ascending. Her Eurovision entry from 2013 brought the Ukraine to 3rd place and that was followed up by presenting the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv. However she is back to […]
Did people tune into RTE to look at Eurovision 2014? Well the simple answer is “yes” they did. With 20 songs from the contest making the Irish Top 100 we can now bring you the tv ratings. RTE Eurovision 2014 Ratings Tuesday Semi Final 1 – 209 […]
P.E.D. aka Post Eurovision Depression as it is known among the fans, has many symptoms. Since we have returned from Copenhagen we have been cross checking ourselves to see if we are suffering from this condition. What do you think? I have not shaved in over a week […]