IRELAND: Interview with Sarah McTernan at LEP 2019 Eurovision Ireland was lucky enough to catch up with our representative Sarah McTernan, just before the London Eurovision Party at the Café de Paris near Leicester Square. Sarah told us about her time recording her postcard in Israel and her […]
BIRTHDAY: Alla Pugacheva from Russia is 70 today We get heroes performing at our favourite TV show every year. But it’s not every day that we get a People’s Artist of their country – the highest award their country can bestow a performer. Not only is today’s birthday […]
Winter is here… And so is Eurovision! Although it might not seem like it at a first glance, HBO’s hit TV adaptation Game of Thrones and the Eurovision Song Contest do have quite a bit in common: people from far-away lands, speakers of different languages and with different […]
BIRTHDAY: Jacques Houdek from Croatia is 38 today Singer, writer. It’s a well-trodden path. If you’re a singer worth your salt, you may have dabbled in songwriting too. It implies that you can sing, and understand how music properly works. No, I’m not rambling. I’m leading up to […]
BIRTHDAY: Mando from Greece is 53 today Have you noticed that the last few birthdays have featured singers using stage names. Maybe it’s a thing to give them a completely different persona to the off-stage singer. But it’s interesting that stage names can be very different to real […]
BIRTHDAY: Deen from Bosnia & Herzegovina is 37 today As we saw yesterday, Eurovision throws up performances as well as songs. Do they detract, or does a song need some form of gimmick to do well? St Salvador of Sobral didn’t think so, but they do sometimes help. […]
BIRTHDAY: Mélovin from Ukraine is 22 today We all know that the road to Eurovision is not always easy. All sorts of things can get in the way of that song a country selects for the hallowed stage in [insert city here]. It’s definitely true this year. As […]
BIRTHDAY: Linas Adomaitis from Lithuania is 43 today Yesterday we had a country who had never won. Well, sort of. Now today we have a country with a record that’s been a little more patchy since day one. Our friends in Lithuania haven’t had the success of its […]
BIRTHDAY: Vesna Pisarović from Croatia is 41 today There’s a long list of countries that have never won our favourite TV show. Will one of them win this year in Tel Aviv? Or will it be Sweden somewhere dull? However, there is one country that claims a win, […]
BIRTHDAY: Freddie from Hungary is 29 today Are you a fan of national finals? Are you religiously watching them through the whole ‘season’, from Albania to Sweden? Do you pick certain countries to watch, even though they may have many many shows? Or do you prefere it to […]