#BIRTHDAY: 23 Sept – Adelaide from Portugal is 67 Did you remember the contest in Portugal in 2018? Do you still dream of the sun, the sea, the pasteis de nada? Do you think that we should have already been there? We can think of several examples of […]
#BIRTHDAY: 22 Sept – Anabela from Portugal is 50 It’s an all points west birthday today. Our favourite TV show regularly moves around Europe’s quarters, showing us the delights of the varied continent. Back in 1993, the contest was in Millstreet and had never been further west. It […]
#BIRTHDAY: 21 Sept – Victoria from Bulgaria is 29 That class of 2020, eh? They keep amazing us with their also being the class of 2021. It was commendable of the various TV companies continuing to back them, and it was ironic the winners of 2021 weren’t there […]
#BIRTHDAY: 20 Sept – Martin & Stefan from N Macedonia are 40 Two birthdays for the price of one? We can tell you’re getting excited already. There have been various sets of siblings taking part down the years. And even a number of sets of twins. Just imagine […]
#BIRTHDAY: 17 Sept – Lesley Roy from Ireland is 40 That class of 2020, eh? How unlucky were they? They get all dressed up and have nowhere in Rotterdam to go. That is, until 2021 when some of them get that second bite at the cherry. One of […]
#BIRTHDAY: 16 Sept – Claude from the Netherlands is 23 Our friends in the Netherlands have, of late, had a love/hate relationship with our favourite TV show. They sat out 2026 and, for all we know, may sit out 2027 too. To date, the last Dutch entry is […]
#BIRTHDAY: 14 Sept – Dida Drăgan from Romania is 80 There’s that twilight zone of Eurovision songs. We have the Grand Finalists basking in the sunshine of a Saturday night. Then we have the semi-finalists who know their place, and get many of the trappings of the host […]
#BIRTHDAY: 13 Sept – Adonxs from Czechia is 31 Do you admire those singers that come from one country, but end up representing another? Maybe they’ve lived in their adopted country for many years. Or their two countries are such close pals that they sometimes seem interchangeable? Today’s […]
#BIRTHDAY: 12 Sept – Dino Merlin from BiH is 64 Is Eurovision a young person’s game? Well, the junior that happens around November definitely is. But do you have to be a fresh-faced and eager teenager or twenty-something to get the most out of our favourite TV show? […]
#BIRTHDAY: 10 Sept – Stoyan Yankoulov from Bulgaria is 60 There’s a word we want to use today, as today’s song reminds us of it. It might feature in this article, or we might save it for another time. Our friends in Bulgaria took a while to find […]