#BIRTHDAY: Slavko Kalezić from Montenegro is 37 today Eurovision is full of characters. Some of them we don’t mind seeing after the curtain goes down. Some of them are just plain annoying. I’ll leave it to you to decide which category today’s birthday boy falls into. He had high […]
#BIRTHDAY: Martin Stenmarck from Sweden is 50 today Hold onto your hats! I’ve picked a birthday from Sweden today. Are you really excited? Could it be one of your favourites? Or not? Well as I sometimes say, every song ever performed on a Eurovision stage has fans. Some […]
#BIRTHDAY: David D’Or from Israel is 57 today There’s a song that contains the lyric “On a cloudy day”. It almost invites three dots after it, where you can fill in your own conclusion. On a cloudy day… you can see Carola’s wind machine. For example. Actually, today’s […]
#BIRTHDAY: Nina from Spain is 56 today Are you a Spanish fan? Or just a fan of Spanish music? You must have been gutted in May when, in any other year, RTVE could have taken home the big prize. Fate is a cruel thing. But over the years, […]
#BIRTHDAY: Trine Jepsen from Denmark is 45 today The duet. It’s a great little set up. Two equally credited singers for the price of one, each bringing their own talents to a song. And it means the audience could like at least one of the protagonists. Is the […]
It’s back! After our break to cover the Eurovision Song Contest 2022, Eurovision Ireland is returning to its search for your all time favourite entries from countries across the continent, spanning the contest’s entire back catalogue – which as of 2022, is now over 1600 songs! We started […]
#BIRTHDAY: Sergio Dalma from Spain is 58 today As you’ll know, the rules of our favourite TV show impose a strict three minute on sing duration. It has been more in the past, but when one 1950s singer had a song that lasted in the region of five […]
#BIRTHDAY: Alma from France is 34 today Our friends in France have experienced the highs and lows of Eurovision lately. After nearly winning in 2021, they had less good fortune in 2022. Eurovision can be a very fickle beast at times. In 2017, France sent today’s birthday girl […]
The cold days are with us again, the nights are drawing in…which means the return of the popular BBC Competition Strictly Come Dancing .What has Strictly Come Dancing got to do with the Eurovision Song Contest,you may ask? Well, during each series we often see a connection between […]
#BIRTHDAY: Nicki French from the UK has a birthday today Those decades keep on coming, and it’s the turn of that which some call the ‘noughties’. It’s an odd term, so we’ll just call it the first decade of the 21st Century. Sure, you could argue that today’s […]