The Eurovision season really begins when Sweden announce their Melodifestivalen details. Everyone looks at the 6 week national selection show (though some will not admit to it) and EVERYONE has an opinion on the songs. Today our good friends at SVT announced their details for 2014 – thank […]
Sweden’s Pop and Schlager Prince – Danny Saucedo – came very close to joining the heavy metal rock band called “Crashdïet”. The band call themselves a “Sleaze Band” – and who are we to argue with them! They formed in Sweden in 2000 and became well know domestically. […]
What were they thinking? Putting (Music Icon) Bonnie Tyler on stage in a sing off with (Melodifestivalen Bridesmaid) Pernilla Wahlgren? Yes in the recent Granna Music Festival in Sweden – the 2 Diva’s ( of differing degrees) not only shared a stage but took on the classic “River […]
Sweden have announced their first Act that will compete at Melodifestivalen 2014. The band “EKO” today won the Swedish Radio Talent contest “Svensktoppen nästa” and have been awarded a place in the heats of Melodifestivalen 2014. Eight acts competed in the “Svensktoppen nästa” today. They represented different regions […]
Danny Saucedo has been runner-up at Melodifestivalen twice now – 2011 and 2012. In 2012 he was second to Loreen with the song “Amazing”. Amazing was a big production of a dance track. However recently he performed a ballad version of the song called “Amazing – The Wedding […]
Get your Freak on – It’s Friday and the weekend is upon us! Let’s start your weekend off with a giggle and good Eurovision music too. Probably one of the most recognizable Eurovision winners in some years – Loreen’s Euphoria – has been covered, remixed, parodied and turned […]
Sarah Dawn Finer – Melodifestivalen finalist and EBU Correspondent Lynda Woodruff – has taken on Avicii’s “Wake Me Up”. On Swedish Radio, Finer played an acoustic ballad version of Avici’s Global Smash “Wake Me Up”. The 2 songs could not be more different. Again Finer proves that she […]
The original – and the best – line up of Swedish pop group legends “Army of Lovers”, reformed for Melodifestivalen this year and brought us the highly underrated “Rockin the Ride”. It was a teenage dream come true to see Alexander Bard, La Camilla and Jean-Pierre Barda back together […]
Stockholm Pride 2013 will be one the biggest outings in the festival’s history this year – and there will be a vast array of Eurovision and Melodifestivalen stars at the event. The line up of artists is as follows Gina G (United Kingdom 1996) Anton Ewald (Melodifestivalen 2013) […]
Just a month after hosting Eurovision 2013 – SVT – the Swedish National Broadcaster have announced the application process for Melodifestivalen 2014 (the Swedish National Selection Process) Again there will be 32 songs selected for the 4 Heats. How will the 32 songs be selected? Firstly SVT have […]