“Eurovision is on a Financial Diet due to the spending spree’s or earlier hosts like Moscow, Düsseldorf and Baku – who were all trying to out do each other with who has the most lights and LED screens. Let’s take a look at that statement” according to the […]
SVT have announced that French designer Jean-Paul Gaultier will design Eurovision Host – Petra Mede’s – dress for Eurovision. Mede and Christer Bjorkman have already met with the French Style Icon and Eurovision Fan already and discussed concepts for Petra’s outfits. Gaultier’s team contacted SVT to suggest working […]
The first deliveries of the Eurovision 2013 stage have arrived at the Malmo Arena in Sweden ahead of the upcoming contest. Above you can see that the Arena is an empty shell but the first pieces of technical equipment has arrived. With just under 4 weeks to prepare […]
SVT announced that this year they will be broadcasting 3 – 1 hour-long live shows just before both Eurovision Semi Finals and The Grand Final. The shows will come live from the Press Center and Artist preparation area. The host of the shows will be Melodifestivalen presenter Gina Dirawi. […]
Östgruppens (Swedish Human Rights Organisation) Chairman – Martin Uggla – is calling SVT to withdraw Belarus from Eurovision 2013. The “We Are One” concept of Eurovision 2013 is being called into question by the organisation. Uggla is claiming that the Belarus National Television Broadcaster is part of the […]
“PLASA Focus: Backstage Malmö” an opportunity for a first-hand look at the technologies being employed for the Eurovision Live Shows. “PLASA Focus: Backstage Malmö” will take place on May 7 – 8, one week prior to Eurovision’s live broadcasts, in Malmö, Sweden. This year’s Eurovision Song Contest, produced by […]
As we told you last week, SVT were in Dublin shooting a chorus of Loreen’s winning Eurovision 2012 song “Euphoria” for the Live Eurovision shows later in May. We can reveal that 10 cities have been selected around Europe for this shooting and Dublin is one of them. […]
Joy unconfined as we heard today that Lynda Woodruff makes a glorious return to Melodifestivalen tomorrow night. Yes the alter ego of Sarah Dawn Finer – EBU Official Lynda Woodruff – will be gracing the stage at Melodifestivalen and this time around she will be in the capacity […]
Eurovision Ireland teams up with International Juries along with our on-line fan poll to predict the winner of Melodifestivalen 2013. Over the next 48 hours we will give you the results from our fan jury who hail from several countries across Europe. To this we will add the […]
SVT announced the International Juries that will be voting in the Melodifestivalen final. Some changes this year as some of the countries have been substituted – including Ireland (and we gave Loreen 12 points at Melodifestivalen and Eurovision last year too). Here is the list of International Juries […]