#ESC 2021: Day Five Rehearsals Blog from 10.00 CET Well, we have now seen the first rehearsals of both the 1st and 2nd semi finals and today at 09.00 BST/10.00 CET we kick off with the start of the second set of rehearsals , starting with Semi final […]
#ESC2021: Eurovision Ireland reviews… Semi-final One We’ve seen all the semi-finalists – except Australia – rehearse for the first time. Lots can still change, but we may now have an idea who the ten qualifiers could be. Click on the video below and see what the Eurovision Ireland […]
Let’s face it… the last 18 months have been anything but ordinary!! And in these strange times of COVID, social distancing and frantic hand washing, even Eurovision has undergone massive changes to ensure the event we know and love can go ahead. We all knew it was going […]
#ESC2021: Eurovision Ireland scores – Day One Eurovision Ireland has looked in depth at today’s rehearsals. We can’t comment on Australia as we didn’t see their stage show. How did we score the other six acts? We gave three, two and one point to our favourite three. Do […]
#ESC 2021: Day One Rehearsals Blog from 10.00 CET After the best part of two years, we finally get a proper rehearsal of performances for a Eurovision Song Contest. Yes, at 09.00 BST/10.00 CET we kick off with the first songs from the First Semi-Final. REMEMBER: This year […]
#BIRTHDAY: Peter Nalitch from Russia is 40 today Do you ever wonder why a certain song does so well or so badly? Do you think it was robbed of a place in the Grand Final, or got through when it shouldn’t have done. Back in 2010, Russia sent […]
#ESC2021: Eurovision Ireland reviews… Part V: Eastern Europe We’re getting closer to the contest in Rotterdam. Are you excited? We at Eurovision Ireland most definitely are. As a way to keep us occupied, we’re reviewing the 39 songs over seven panel reviews. This is our fifth review, which […]
#BIRTHDAY: Anastasia Prikhodko is 34 today It’s home entrant time again. A home entrant who was also not quite a native of the country she was representing. Are you confused yet? Well, it’s happened more than once, and can nicely spice up a contest. In 2009 we’d all […]
Over the course of April and May, on the lead up to the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest, we will be celebrating the countries that are participating this year in Rotterdam. Today, we celebrate Russia. Russia debuted at the Contest in 1994, in Dublin, Ireland. Youddiph finished in ninth […]
#BIRTHDAY: Julia Samoylova from Russia is 32 today Eurovision can be controversial. We all know that. We’ll try not to get involved with those contoversies here, save to say it makes our contest all the richer. In 2018, today’s birthday girl Ю́лия Оле́говна Само́йлова/Julia Olegovna Samoilova finally got […]