Welcome to the “Eurovision Ireland Weekender” video update on All things Eurovision 2014. This video blog brings you all the news from the past week at Eurovision in the run-up to Eurovision 2014. We have news, views and hot topics. You can sit back and just listen as […]
Wake up People. Tickets for Melodifestivalen 2014 will go on sale tomorrow – Friday October 25th – at 9am (CET). As you will all know from previous experience, these tickets will sell out fast. The tickets will go on sale through ticnet.se – see this link We would […]
Time to recap as of midday on Wednesday October 23rd on what countries will be attending Eurovision 2014. The following broadcaster has confirmed that they will be participating in next year’s contest Ukraine The speculation still continues over the inclusion of Balkan Musical Legend Goran Bregovic in their national […]
Eurovision winner Loreen, has been working relentlessly on the lack of children’s education in Afghanistan over the past few months. We wrote of her recent trip to the war-torn country earlier this year – see here If you speak Swedish – and we have several thousand Scandinavian fans […]
The most watched Eurovision national selection across Europe each year is that of Melodifestivalen. Earlier we confirmed to you the dates and venues of the heats, second chance semi final and the Grand Final – see here Every year fans from across Europe make the pilgrimage to Sweden for […]
The past 48 hours have seen more countries confirm their participation at Eurovision 2014. Time to recap as of midnight on Thursday October 10th. The following broadcasters have confirmed that they will be participating in next year’s contest Recent Countries confirmed their participation over the last 48 hours […]
I thought that only Santa lived in Lapland but that seems not the case. A Eurovision Winner found themselves in a disused Railway station for 3 days. Who, What and WHY? All will be revealed in the new television series of SVT’s “Sapmi Sessions” that is due to […]
The OGAE (Official Eurovision Fan Network) “Second Chance Contest” was hosted in Spain recently. This is a time-honored tradition run every year since 1987. The National branches of OGAE select a non winning song from their National Selection. The members of the clubs then vote on all the […]
France has had their say for Eurovision 2014. “Internal selections are not the way forward”. These are just some of the comments from some 500 French Eurovision fans who have had their official say on how their Eurovision entry has been selected and the artists in question. After […]
“Hard time finding mega-star status” was the crushing comment that the Wall Street Journal used to describe the current Eurovision Winner Emmelie De Forest’s career. We reported last week that Emmelie had cancelled her tour of Germany and Denmark – See here Emmelie had stated on Facebook that […]