Of course, a lot gets made of the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest – how can it not? They’ve just won the biggest televised competition on the planet! But what about the songs that came in 2nd? The songs that a lot of people loved, but it […]
#CHRISTMAS: Eurovision Ireland Advent Calendar Day 3 Christmas is a-coming, so we at Eurovision Ireland want to share some notable performances by Eurovision acts of festive songs. Some are standards, and some may be new to you. Today’s song is… Author: John Stanton Source: Eurovision Ireland
#BIRTHDAY: Lulu from the UK is 72 today Do you remember when the UK of stuff were good at Eurovision? Yes, since we hit the 21st Century their fortunes have waned a little. But in their prime, the BBC were unstoppable. In 1969, the contest headed south-west and […]
Last week,we at Eurovision Ireland started our series looking at the fate and fortunes of acts who have graced the Eurovision stage over the years once they have had their minutes of glory in the contest. Today, we are going to look at the fortunes of Lulu, who […]
International Poll – Who should sing the next James Bond Theme song – gets a Eurovision interest! That is the question being asked by the British newspaper ‘The Telegraph’. The usual suspects are in their on-line poll from Lana Del Ray to Sam Smith to Queen featuring Adam […]
UK – You can’t keep a good man down for long and Englebert Humperdinck is set to ‘Rise Like A Phoenix‘ with his new Deluxe Album album of duets. Following his disappointment of being second last at Eurovision 2012 ‘The Hump’ is back triumphantly with a new album […]
With the Eurovision season well and truly upon us, there was an interesting post that we saw. It simply reads “Chart successful Scotland based produced requires young, charismatic and talented male pop singer for a collaboration with a female vocalist for new song pitch to Eurovision 2015 for […]
“Alex Salmond plans to fast-track Scotland’s entry into the Eurovision Song Contest if the Yes campaign wins”. That has been all over the internet today. The Scottish vote on Independence is too close to call it seems that every single potential voter is being targeted by both sides […]
Eurovision winner Lulu, Eurovision Interval Act 2014 Jessica Mauboy and Pop Queen Kylie got upstaged by an Australian athlete Genevieve LaCaze at the Commonwealth Games Closing Ceremony Concert in Glasgow last night. Mauboy and Minogue were performing at the closing ceremony as they were inviting the athletes to […]
The people of Scotland will be voting next September in a referendum that asks the nation if they want to be an independent country. Yesterday Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond launched the Scottish government’s independence blueprint. This is a 670 page document “which contains the arguments in favour […]
Eurovision has a love affair with the hit dance show “Strictly Come Dancing” or “Dancing With The Stars”. With a Jury and a Public vote deciding how good or not so good your 3 minute performance was – you have the makings for the best tv around Europe. […]