Today has seen the fourth day of rehearsals in the Malmö Arena, this time the acts who will participate in the second half of Semi Final 2 on 9th May getting their first opportunity to grace the Malmö stage . As has been the case with previous years, […]
#BIRTHDAY: Gerard Joling from the Netherlands is 64 today Many Eurovisionistas are heading to Malmö. We are too, or we could be still in Malmesbury. It’s easy to confuse the two. But you’re not reading this article to see travel arrangements. You want a birthday. Don’t you? Well, […]
#BIRTHDAY: Waylon from the Netherlands is 44 today If you’ve been a runner-up in our favourite TV show, it must be tempting to try again for the win. Several individuals have achieved this, but even more have not. It’s high risk, but could really burnish your credentials as […]
#BIRTHDAY: Duncan Laurence from the Netherlands is 30 today Anyone can win our favourite TV show. A number of countries had had dismal results before they won. You know who they are. And countries who won in the dim and distant past can surprise us all and win […]
#BIRTHDAY: Sieneke from the Netherlands is 32 today It’s no April Fool that some countries have probably done a lot worse than they’ve deserved to over the years. I’m thinking of those countries that perhaps didn’t win in a long long time. The one I have in mind […]
#BIRTHDAY: Mia Nicolai from the Netherlands is 28 today Do you remember when our friends in the Netherlands won Tel Aviv? It seemed like a golden age for the Dutch had arrived. As we know, Eurovision is a very fickle beast, and those changes from hero to zero […]
#BIRTHDAY: Bernadette from the Netherlands is 65 today Back in the day, when there was no free language rule, some took it upon themselves to bend the rules as much as possible. They were allowed a few phrases in other languages. If you did it right, you could […]
#BIRTHDAY: Ben Cramer from the Netherlands is 77 today You have to admire the Dutch. In their time, they’ve notched up five Eurovision victories, but never seem to shout from their gable-ended rooftops about it. And they’ve been in the contest since the start, so have a very […]
#BIRTHDAY: Linda Wagenmakers from the Netherlands is 48 today A prop is always a good thing to make your song stand out just that little bit more than the rest. The question is: what kind of prop do you use? It could be a big sparkly glitter ball. […]
#BIRTHDAY: Greetje Kauffeld from the Netherlands is 84 today Today we go back a few years. Yes, definitely quite a few years. After all, it would be a dull old thing if I just picked 21st Century songs. And if you don’t know any songs from the last […]