#BIRTHDAY: Laura Rizzotto from Latvia is 30 today Nationality is a funny thing. Some countries taking part in our favourite TV show insist on someone who only hails from where they’re representing. Others have a more laissez-faire approach. Today’s birthday girl Laura di Karvaļu Rizzotto is of Latvian […]
LTV, the Latvian national broadcaster, have confirmed participation in the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest. LTV have yet to declare how they will choose their representative for the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest, however it is expected that Supernova, the regular national selection will be used – although the format […]
The Latvian Parliament is due to discuss the possible withdrawal from the Eurovision Song Contest, following a petition by Kristaps Bogdanovičs exceeded the 10000 signatures required. The petition by Kristaps Bogdanovičs, achieved a total of 11300 signatures. The petition outlined the following: “I call for an end to […]
Just over a week has gone by since the Grand Final of Eurovision 2024 took place in Malmö, Sweden and we saw Nemo, from Switzerland crowned the winner with their song “The Code”. Now that the dust is settling and before we look ahead to JESC 2024 and […]
With the semi finals done and dusted for another year, it’s time for one of our most popular annual articles – let’s find out which countries have had their qualification rates improved the most by reaching the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 and who has […]
#ESC24: Live Blog the Grand Final, Dress Rehearsal 1 – from 12:30 BST/13:30 CEST The Friday afternoon technical rehearsal is the first time we get to see how the Grand Final hangs together. It’s bound to involve a few hiccups here and there, but it’s also bound to […]
#ESC24: Live Blog of SF2, Dress Rehearsal 1 – from 14:45BST/15:45CET The Wednesday afternoon technical rehearsal is the first time we get to see how Semi Final 2 hangs together. It’s bound to involve a few hiccups here and there, but it’s also bound to be all right […]
Not only do we have the First Semi Final to look forward, but to paraphrase Guy Sebastian, we get to do it all again with the Second Semi Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024! You can watch all the fun in gorgeous Malmö, Sweden on Thursday 9th May at […]
#ESC2024: The Malmöhagen Carpet – Part 2 Eurovision Ireland was granted access to the VIP carpet event at the Malmöhagen pre-Contest party in Copenhagen. We spoke to a number of the artists, who gave us their views on various Eurovision-related matters. Author: John Stanton Source: Eurovision Ireland
#ESC2024: Eurovision Ireland reviews – Part 3 We at Eurovision Ireland have cast our discerning eye over the 37 competing songs at the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest. In this third review, we look at the songs from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraine. You can find our […]