(Photograph Courtesy of http://www.martinbakerphotography.com) Azerbaijan selected another finalist towards their Eurovision 2013 entrant – and as we had predicted it was the amazing and stunning Leyla Əliyeva You may remember that she sang Rona Nishliu of Albania‘s 2012 entry Suus – and it was explosive. (YouTube Video Courtesy of Azeurovision) Leyla […]
(Photograph Courtesy of RTE.ie) As we had said here several months ago – “Girls Aloud” are the priority for the BBC to secure for Eurovision 2013 – we have media reports today in the UK and Ireland that this is the case. According to RTE’s (Irish National Broadcaster) website and Popbitch.com […]
Who will win Melodifestivalen 2013 and represent Sweden at home in Malmo? Well SVT ( Swedish National Broadcaster) have started the media machine for their national choice – “Melodifestivalen” – with one of the best TV adverts that we have ever seen. Thanks to our friends at Wiwiblogs for finding […]
Round one of the Finnish National Final has just taken place in the search for their entry for Eurovision 2013. The contestants were Iina Salin – “Last Night” Last Panda – “Saturday Night Forever” Mikael Saari – “We Should Be Through” Ilari Hämäläinen – “Sytytä Mut Vaan” Rautakoura […]
Yes we always love Monday nights on Milli Seçim Turu as Azerbaijan look to find their entry to Eurovision 2013. Monday night sees all of this weeks contestants perform Eurovision songs, some with more success than others. This week saw another group of hopefuls take to the stage. […]
So who will Germany select for Eurovision 2013? Well we are getting closer to that decision – February 14th for all you Eurovision Lovers. German Broadcaster NDR have released the full songs of almost all the contestants. To listen to all the songs just click on the below […]
(Picture Courtesy of ESCwebs.net) Tonight Finland decides who the first 2 finalists will be in the search for their Eurovision 2013 representative aka “Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu“. 2 of the 6 artists will go directly to the final from tonight’s show and then 3 others will go to a Semi Final. […]
A Greek tragedy has been avoided as ERT (Greek National Broadcaster) has given the task of organising the Greek Eurovision Selection for 2013 to Mad TV. ERT had reached out to local Record Companies in trying to get them to source the organising of the National Selection and Eurovision Preparations […]
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 […]
(Malmo Old City Town Hall – Photograph courtesy of Wikipedia) Who will be in which Semi Final for Eurovision 2013? That will be answered in less than 30 minutes time. At 2pm (CET) the Mayor of last years’ host city – Baku – Mr Hajibala Abutalybov – will hand over the Eurovision Insignia […]
Tonight we had the first installment of “MGP Direkte” from NRK as they presented the 7 acts that will take place in the first Semi Final of MGP to find Norway’s representative to Eurovision 2012. There were some surprises to say the least The 7 acts presented were Vidar Busk – […]
So who will be the successor to Tooji for our friends in Norway and represent them at Eurovision 2013? Yes at 19.15(GMT) NRK (Norwegian National Broadcaster) will broadcast a show case programme with the first 7 acts that will be competing in the first Norwegian Semi Final in the town […]
Claims in Norwegian press VG.Nett are that Alexander Rybak is returning to Eurovision – but as the composer of one of the Norwegian entries in their Semi Finals. Yes the highest scoring winner in Modern Eurovision times is potentially returning in his quest to follow in the footsteps of […]
Who will represent Denmark at Eurovision 2013? We got our first taste of what is in store at Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2013 when Danish Broadcaster DR announced the finalists in their national selection. Not only that but they gave us a 30 second clips for each of the […]
We invited Stephen back for a second guest article and today he shall be reviewing the Latvian contenders for Eurovision 2013. Brace yourself people. I’m back with another brief synopsis of a glittering Eurovision National Final. This time its Latvia‘s turn, to introduce us to their 24, yes […]