Building on the success of our Best of the Big 5 series, Eurovision Ireland is broadening its search for your favourite entries from countries across the continent, spanning the contest’s entire back catalogue. You asked us to take a look at the Scandinavian countries, so the next stop […]
FINLAND: Hyvää syntymäpäivää Suomeen!! One of our more erstwhile countries who love Eurovision has today celebrated a big milestone. In 1917, Finland became an independent nation and has never looked back. Over the years, they’ve excelled in athletics, motor sport and ice hockey. Eurovision has had a somewhat […]
Some of you may recall that last year I published a best and worst at Eurovision article for every country that was taking part in Eurovision 2016 with the exception of Australia who were only competing for the second time. So this year I will publish one for […]
It is with great pleasure that we at Eurovision Ireland wish our good friends in Finland a very happy Independence Day today. If they celebrate this anything like they do Vappu/Första Maj/May Day, it’s bound to be a heap of fun. Especially if Saara Aalto has anything to […]
Now that the National Finals season is finished and all songs for Eurovision 2016 have been selected we now have a period of around 5 weeks where we wait for the rehearsals to begin in Stockholm. What better way to fill the time than to look back over […]
Finland release the songs in their Eurovision 2015 Selection. What is your Favourite? Yes the Finnish Broadcaster YLE has released the songs that will compete in their Eurovision 2015 selection UMK. You can look at the videos for each of the songs HERE 18 contestants in this year’s […]
Oops – somebody is going to get fired at YLE (Finnish National Broadcaster) as the 18 songs that hope to represent Finland at Eurovision 2015 were uploaded today to Spotify – several weeks in advance. You can listen to the songs on SPOTIFY HERE until YLE take them down. […]
Hi my name is Garrett and I am a Hardcore Softengine fan! That is what this groupie says every time my Finnish Eurovision men release a new song. I am addicted to them! Bring on the ‘Bromance’ Ring out the alarms, the bells and ‘The Sirens’ as the band’s […]
To be said in your best Chandler voice from Friends but “COULD Softengine get any hotter?”. As we continue our “Bromance” with the Finnish men we are very excited to announce that they have now given their upcoming début album a title and there will be another single […]
We have good and bad news for you. Softengine were our favourite band at this year’s Eurovision song contest. We just couldn’t find ‘Something Better’ than them when it came to groups at the contest this year. The band has announced three pieces of news for their fans. […]
Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu or UMK (to you and me) returns as YLE (Finnish National Broadcaster) are now accepting entries for their Eurovision 2015 national selection. Artists have from now until noon (Finnish local time) Monday September 8th, to submit their entries for consideration. You must upload your entry on-line […]
Finland’s 2014 Eurovision stars Softengine recently held a singing competition where the lucky winners would get to feature on the band’s new album. All you had to do was post a video of you singing the group’s new song ‘Yellow House’. Well there wasn’t just one lucky winner […]
FINLAND – Is it Christmas? If not then don’t wake me up from this perfect dream. My favourite Eurovision 2014 men from Softengine have just opened a competition to all their fans where the prize is to appeared on their debut album. It could not be more simple. All […]
Finland’s 2014 Eurovision representatives ‘Softengine’ have today been given an official release in America. You know that we here are Eurovision Ireland have a “Soft Spot” for ‘Softengine’ so this is exciting news. The band brought Finland to 11th place at Eurovision this year with their song ‘Something […]
It is no secret that we have a serious case of ‘Man Crush’ on the guys from Softengine following their adventures at Eurovision 2014. The ‘difficult second song’ well isn’t so difficult for our Finnish group, as ‘Yellow House’ has rocketed into the charts. The band came to […]