After a night to remember in Kyiv, the votes have been counted and winner has been declared – but who was it? The winner of Vidbir 2022, and Ukraine’s entrant into the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin, Italy this May is… Alina Pash and “Shadows of Forgotten […]
#ESTONIA: Live blog of Eesti Laul 2022 from 18.30 CET You can watch the action from Tallinn’s Saku Suurhall HERE. All times below are in GMT 20.47 – Naturally, we finish with Stefan’s song. Estonia has chosen well. Thanks for keeping with the blog for this excellent show. […]
#BIRTHDAY: Ana Rucner from Bosnia & Herzegovina is 39 today It would be good to see certain countries come back to our favourite TV show. Not just those micro-states, but there are some larger ones that did well in the past, but now sit on the sidelines. It […]
Labas vakaras Europa! Labas rytas Australija! Labas pasauli!Tonight is Pabandom iš naujo 2022, meaning in just a few short hours we’ll discover who will represent Lithuania at Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turn! Sit back and relax, and let Eurovision Ireland’s own Bogdan entertain and inform you. As […]
Доброго вечора Європо та доброго ранку Австралія! Tonight is Vidbir 2022, meaning in just a few short hours we’ll discover who will represent Ukraine at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turn! Sit back and relax, and let Eurovision Ireland’s own James Scanlan entertain and inform you. As […]
#BIRTHDAY: Serge Lama from France is 79 today France. A country with a very illustrious history in our favourite TV show. Five wins under their belts, four of them occurring under no longer used scoring systems. That is because back in 1971 everything changed. A new voting structure, […]
#BIRTHDAY: Sandra Simò from Switzerland is 53 today What to do with your life once you’ve been a Eurovision performer? Well, you could try again. But then you risk doing worse on your second attempt than your first. Or you go into songwriting. That means if things go […]
#BIRTHDAY: Ledina Çelo from Albania is 45 today It can be a strange thing being a country’s second ever participant in our favourite TV show. Especially if the first entrant did well. That second entrant has a hard act to follow. In 2005, today’s birthday girl Ledina Çelo […]
#BIRTHDAY: Lars A Fredriksen from Norway is 51 today It’s been 23 long years since the free language rules was re-introduced. Is it a good thing? Well, there have only been three winners since 1999 that had no English in them. So is it a good thing? Well, […]
#BIRTHDAY: Mayte Mateos is 71 today There are songs out there that tick lots of boxes. A competent stage act, a potential winner, even a bit of false-flagness thrown in for good measure. And maybe an act that has form in the ‘muggle’ music industry. Today’s birthday girl […]