(Press Photograph courtesy of © Thomas Hanses (EBU) at Eurovision.tv) So the X-Factor final took place last night – so now people can focus back on the REAL competition – Eurovision 2013! So lot’s of our readers have been asking us when will the national finals across Europe take place? Let’s […]
Finland have released the details of the songs that will compete in their National Selection. This year they failed to qualify for the final so they are back in 2013 with a vengeance. Finnish Broadcaster YLE have announced 2 semi finals and a final. The two semi finals will consist of […]
The votes from the public are in for the semifinal that took place in Lithuania last night and it makes for some interesting reading. Before I try and dissect what the Lithuanian Public saw live compared to what I viewed on-line, here are the results of the public vote 12 points […]
This is a new section to our Blog that we like to call – “Ones That Got Away 2013”. Every year Eurovision fans debate who should have won the National Finals or even who should have won the Eurovision itself. After the first country selected their song last […]
Croatia has had a run of indifferent luck at Eurovision from when they first started in the contest – making the Top 10 on several occasions. With failure to qualify this year and with a Big named Act, the national broadcaster HRT has now advised that they will this year […]
Eurovision Ireland has been in contact with our friends at the Cypriot Eurovision Delegation regarding their participation in Eurovision 2013 in Malmö. And it is with great pleasure we can reveal that we have been told that Cyprus WILL be in Sweden next year. As we had reported there were grave […]
Reuters have just reported that 4 terrorists that were arrested on the eve of Eurovision in Baku earlier this year have been sentenced for up to 14 years in prison. Azerbaijan has a more relaxed approach to religion than some of its neighbours and this they feel places […]
Last year saw FYR Macedonia break their spell of bad luck in missing out on the Grand Final. Kaliopi – one of the Balkan‘s most known and much-loved artists sang the song Crno I Belo. The song and singer were selected internally by the National Broadcaster MRT. And what a stroke of genius that was. […]
I call Belarus the Sleeping Beauty of Eurovision as you know that as it is a huge country with huge talent too that it is surely going to lay a claim on the Eurovision Title. Well Switzerland tend to be the first country to select their entry for […]
Switzerland continue the tradition of being the first country to select their entry for Eurovision. Is this in the hope that people will know the song by the time the contest comes along 5 months later? As in recent years too the land locked country has had several selection heats which include the […]