Anouk took to the stage for The Netherlands, in her first Eurovision rehearsal for 2013. Thankfully no “Angry Birds” here as she was commanding in her performance. Well done Anouk for selecting a Green stage background that looks very impressive. Dressed in a black t-shirt and jeans she looked […]
Last night Ryan Dolan (Irish Eurovision Representative 2013) and Bonnie Tyler (Uk Eurovision Representative 2013) took to the stage in Dublin and London on the Late Late Show and The Graham Norton Show respectively. Ryan performed live on the Late Late Show in the customary “good luck for […]
One of our favorite music sites – Scandipop – have announced that they will be hosting a Eurovision/Scandipop night in Malmo on the eve of the Eurovision Final. In cooperation with Moriska Paviljongen (also known as “Moriskan”, and this year’s official Euro Café) they will be hosting a […]
Armenia Eurovision Entrants “Dorians” have announced that they will play a live show in Copenhagen in the run up to the Eurovision Semi Finals. The band will make the short trip from Malmo to Copenhagen and perform in “The Amager Bio Club” which is one of the largest […]
Azerbaijan’s Eurovision entrant for 2013 – Farid Mammadov – continues to be to the forefront of social media PR at this year’s contest. This week saw his song “Hold Me” get the official remix treatment. He has released multiple remixes of the song that is sure to get […]
Eurovision Ireland had the pleasure to meet the wonderful “Who See and Nina Žižić” who will be representing Montenegro at Eurovision 2013 with their song “Igranka”. One of this year’s more contemporary artists at this years competition, we are sure their live performance in Malmo will be as exciting as […]
Emmelie de Forest – who will represent Denmark at Eurovision 2013 – was presented with a Gold Disc for sales of her song “Only Teardrops” that has been dowloaded over 900 thousand times since it’s release. She was presented with the Gold Disc at a press interview in […]
Bonnie Tyler – United Kingdom Eurovision Entrant 2013 – is in Berlin today on her Pre-Malmo promotional tour. She was asked to unveil the wax work of Eurovision Winners ABBA in the Berlin Museum where it will stay for several months before touring Europe. Just for trivia – […]
Being a Eurovision host city can bring a financial windfall to the locals. Like in Baku the year before, many locals are moving out for the 2 weeks of Eurovision and renting their homes to fans and press who are looking for quality accommodation at a good price. The urban […]
“Bad taste. Bad timing.Bad joke” were just some of the comments that flooded the BBC’s complaints commission yesterday after Eurovision star and Abba member Björn Ulvaeus made a joke referring to the Boston Marathon explosion that have killed 3 people and seriously injured many others. Ulvaeus was being […]
For the fifth year in a row, Eurovision acts from all over Europe flew into the Dutch capital, to be part of Amsterdam’s “Eurovision in Concert” on April 14th. This year broke all previous records with 25 of the 39 acts going to Malmo, taking part and a […]
Sweden Asks Eurovision Fans in Ireland for Help Sweden has come to “Eurovision Ireland” asking if we could survey our wide audience about why Eurovision is Popular in Ireland. So we were more than happy to help our friend Ylva Wernhoff from www.berghs.se . When our Swedish friends came […]
Malmo – like Oslo did in 2010 – will be rolling out a “Pink Carpet” for the visiting singers, delegations, press and fans at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. The City is saying that it is going to celebrate the large Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender following that […]
The first deliveries of the Eurovision 2013 stage have arrived at the Malmo Arena in Sweden ahead of the upcoming contest. Above you can see that the Arena is an empty shell but the first pieces of technical equipment has arrived. With just under 4 weeks to prepare […]
SVT announced that this year they will be broadcasting 3 – 1 hour-long live shows just before both Eurovision Semi Finals and The Grand Final. The shows will come live from the Press Center and Artist preparation area. The host of the shows will be Melodifestivalen presenter Gina Dirawi. […]