Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu or UMK (to you and me) returns as YLE (Finnish National Broadcaster) are now accepting entries for their Eurovision 2015 national selection. Artists have from now until noon (Finnish local time) Monday September 8th, to submit their entries for consideration. You must upload your entry on-line […]
Finland’s 2014 Eurovision stars Softengine recently held a singing competition where the lucky winners would get to feature on the band’s new album. All you had to do was post a video of you singing the group’s new song ‘Yellow House’. Well there wasn’t just one lucky winner […]
It’s Friday Favourites here at Eurovision Ireland and this week we introduce you to a new writer at the site – Nine. We go back in our Tardis to the year 1989. http://youtu.be/B_ryzRWf1Wg The first Eurovision I watched was in 1989. I don’t think the rest of my […]
FINLAND – Is it Christmas? If not then don’t wake me up from this perfect dream. My favourite Eurovision 2014 men from Softengine have just opened a competition to all their fans where the prize is to appeared on their debut album. It could not be more simple. All […]
Finland – Diandra came to international attention in 2013 when she participated in the Finnish national selection for Eurovision. ‘Colliding into you’ came third in the final of UMK that year behind Krista Siegfrids. She has released the single ‘Paha poika’ which has shot straight to #1 in […]
Crimea, may be have your votes please? Last year Swedish TV developed the Eurovision slogan for the contest in Malmo, “We Are One” which aimed to portray Europe as a united entity, emphasising diversity and multiculturalism. Except Europe really isn’t one; Europe is a fractured construct, economically, […]
We know the dates of Eurovision 2015 and we know that it will be between 3 cities to host the event. So all we now need are countries/broadcasters to participate. The following list is what we have seen announced so far as an intention to participate at Eurovision […]
Finland’s 2014 Eurovision representatives ‘Softengine’ have today been given an official release in America. You know that we here are Eurovision Ireland have a “Soft Spot” for ‘Softengine’ so this is exciting news. The band brought Finland to 11th place at Eurovision this year with their song ‘Something […]
It is no secret that we have a serious case of ‘Man Crush’ on the guys from Softengine following their adventures at Eurovision 2014. The ‘difficult second song’ well isn’t so difficult for our Finnish group, as ‘Yellow House’ has rocketed into the charts. The band came to […]
FINLAND – It was no secret that we were big fans of Softengine at Eurovision 2014 and we felt the need to take them under our wing in Copenhagen, a tough job but someone had to do it! But they are growing up so fast! Yesterday was […]
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