BIRTHDAY: Anneli Saaristo from Finland is 70 today What’s your favourite decade of Eurovision? There are so many to choose from. It’s true that some decades have more songs than others. But quantity doesn’t always mean quality. I really like the 1980s. It was a smaller pool of […]
POLAND: Tulia to represent his/her/their country in Tel Aviv Poland has dispensed with a national final this year, and broadcaster TVP has chosen their representative internally. At a recent it announced, TVP revealed that Tulia will sing at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv. Patrycja Nowicka, […]
BIRTHDAY: Anita Thallaug from Norway is 81 today It’s about time we had a song in black & white. Some people forget that there were contests before 2000, and there’s a rich seam of good music buried in the 20th Century. All you have to do is look […]
Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! Ah, Valentine’s Day… a day for flirting, for romance, for you to confess your heart’s deepest desires… also a chance for it to all go spectacularly wrong! Let’s face it, the path to true love rarely runs smooth. Everyone has that date they’d rather […]
BIRTHDAY: Sonia from the UK is 48 today Do you wish that contests were close these days. The current scoring makes things a little more dramatic, but there were days when it genuinely came down to the last set of votes. In the 1990s there were a couple […]
This Saturday is going to be a busy one for Eurovision fans! Not only are Romania choosing on Sunday, but Estonia, Slovenia, Croatia and Latvia are ALL choosing their Eurovision entries on Saturday night! After 2 semi finals, there are 8 finalists left with a chance to sing […]
BIRTHDAY: Ajda Pekkan from Turkey is 73 today Some countries seem to have fallen out with our favourite TV show of late. It wasn’t that long ago you’d see the likes of Monaco, Andorra and Slovakia eager and willing to take part. Now they just sit on the […]
BIRTHDAY: Simone de Oliveira from Portugal is 81 today Did you go to Lisbon last year? Did you go there for the contest? Did you enjoy it? Were you there on that amazing night down in the Eurovision Village? I’ll elaborate. I was down there with some Riigi […]
Last night was the 2nd semi final of Romania’s Selecția Națională, meaning we know know all 12 artists still in which a chance of representing the country at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019! You know the drill – let us know who you want to win and sing […]
BIRTHDAY: Poli Genova from Bulgaria is 32 today The fan community can be a big mover and shaker in what sinks and what doesn’t at a Eurovision. They can use their cunning and guile, and occasionally influence what the televoters of Europe can vote for. Obviously, it’s not […]