The Semi Final Allocation draw to find out which semi final each country will perform in at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 , has just taken place in Basel, Switzerland. The draw was hosted by Jan Van Ditzhuisen and Jennifer Bosshard . During the ceremony , the Host […]
#BIRTHDAY: Bill van Dijk from the Netherlands is 77 today Our friends in the Netherlands have been at all-but-four of the contests, so are generally firmly in love with it. Even so, they’ve had their good years and bad years. Let’s not talk about Malmö. In 1982, NOS […]
#CHRISTMAS2024: Eurovision Ireland Advent Calendar Day 12 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: Dion Cooper from the Netherlands is 31 today Do you have a penchant for duets? Do you like the close harmonies when two well-suited singers are paired up for a gem of a song? Do you like it when they stand millimetres apart and shout at each […]
#BIRTHDAY: Maxine from the Netherlands is 54 today Our friends in the Netherlands have had five wins. Yes, five. And they’ve had lots of non-wins too. It lots of guises. Soloists, groups singing in imaginary languages. And, of course, the odd duo. Today’s birthday girl Maxine (née Gonny […]
#BIRTHDAY: Glennis Grace from the Netherlands is 46 today Anyone can win the Eurovision Song Contest. There, I’ve said it. We cite the examples of Portugal and Finland. But there are others. Not too far back we had a win by our friends in the Netherlands. Over the […]
#ESC2024: The Netherlands will not perform in the Grand Final The European Broadcasting Union has published a statement surrounding the Dutch entrant for the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest Joost Klein. It says: “The Dutch artist Joost Klein will not be competing in the Grand Final of this year’s […]
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 […]
A week in Eurovision land goes quick and today we have had Day 7 of rehearsals in Malmö and the acts performing in the second half of the Second Semi Final taking to the stage for a second time. As has been the case all week, both first […]
#ESC2024: Eurovision Ireland Reviews – Part 4 We at Eurovision Ireland have cast our discerning eye over the 37 competing songs at the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest. In this fourth review, we look at the songs from Belgium, Czechia, Luxembourg, Moldova, the Netherlands and Poland. You can find […]