Last night, Italy held its 73rd Sanremo festival in which the winner has the option to participate in the Eurovision Song contest 2023 .After a long night, Italy decided and Marco Mengoni emerged victorious with his song “Due Vite” . Most of you will remember Marco having competed […]
So…..the dust has settled on Lisbon 2018 (which I had the pleasure of attending this year) and as 2019 and the road to Tel Aviv 2019 has begun, with Albania being the first to select their entry! I felt it timely to write my first article as a […]
Recently we published an article looking at the furthest distances Eurovision has travelled over the decades. While compiling the data for that article, Eurovision Ireland regular and global wanderer James worked out the distance each Eurovision Song Contest has travelled from the previous year’s host venue to the […]
One of the best things about Eurovision is that it moves every year – so not only does every contest give you another set of songs to enjoy, but it also gives you a brand new host city to explore and fall in love with! But just how […]
#ESC2013: Swedish musician Avicii has died Swedish musician, DJ and producer Avicii has died in Oman aged 28. Born Tim Bergling in Stockholm in 1989, his association with Eurovision was in 2013 in Malmö, when he collaberated with Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus to compose an opening theme […]
Happy New Year from Eurovision Ireland! Lots of people make it their New Year’s Resolution to travel and explore the world around them – and what better way of doing that than combining it with everyone’s favourite musical extravaganza, the Eurovision Song Contest! For those who love […]
SWEDEN: Melodifestivalen 2018 participants revealed One of the most eagerly anticipated events of the Eurovision season is Melodifestivalen. It’s consistently popular, watched all over Europe, and even the venues for the semi-finals and finals sell out in record time. Broadcaster SVT always takes it around Sweden, thus generating […]
Swedish broadcaster SVT has revealed more details of Melodifestivalen 2018. The six cities hosting the four semi-finals, the second chance and final have been announced, and if you’re planning on attending them all, you’ll soon rack up those miles around Sweden. The venues and dates are: Semi-final 1 […]
SWEDEN : Gothenburg sees 21 Hotels Blocked Booked for May 2016 News today that 21 hotels have been blocked booked for the month of May 2016 – just when Eurovision 2016 will be taking place. Is it a sign from the Schlager Gods that we are returning to […]
George Ezra and Eurovision. Something that we were not expecting the young British singer-songwriter to reveal on the BBC’s Graham Norton Show last night but the ‘Budapest’ singer was all confessions. On the show last night in the UK, George Ezra spoke of how his monster hit ‘Budapest’ […]
Sweden – the reviews are in and Sanna Nielsen is a “Hit”. She may have missed out on winning Eurovision 2014 with her song ‘Undo’ however she is riding a Swedish wave of theatrical success. Sanna Nielsen has taken to the theatre since returning from Eurovision and she […]
Romania scored a massive love bite when Cezar got his teeth into us at Eurovision 2013 with one of my favourite songs that year ‘It’s My Life’. He followed that up with the haunting single ‘Painful Love’ and now we have his new album ‘The Voice of Love’. […]
The Eurovision Fan Mile in Copenhagen for the contest is set to get a complete International Flavour for the Contest. The Eurovision Fan Mile is the route from Copenhagen Central Station to Nyhavn harbour and the 3 cities of Beijing, Hamburg and Malmo have accepted an invitation to […]
How much does it cost to host the Eurovision Song Contest in 2014? Yesterday in an interview with the Danish newspaper “BT”, executive producer of Eurovision 2014 Ms Pernille Gaardbo spoke of the budget for the Song Contest. DR (Danish Broadcaster) are estimating that the budget for the contest […]
In advance of our on-line chat with the Junior Eurovision Song Contest Team (JESC) we read an interesting article today from our good friends at ESC Insight on the running order at Eurovision and JESC You may remember that we wrote some time back about the decision by […]
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