Love it or loath it (WE LOVE IT) there is no escaping Melodifestivalen aka The Eurovision Smorgasbord of Swedish Music. Today SVT announced the line up of singers and composers who are biding to represent Sweden at Eurovision on home soil in Stockholm 2016. We take a close […]
Eurovision 2016: The story so far… As the music fades on another successful Junior Eurovision Song Contest, I started to get even more excited for next year’s Eurovision, but then I realised I was a little bit ‘out of it’, if you like, in terms of what we […]
SVT have made their announcement for the Melodifestivalen Hosts for 2016. As expected Gina Diwawi, who the good people at Aftonbladet said would got the call, indeed got named first as the main hostess. However in two surprise announcements Petra Mede and Charlotte Perrelli have been announced as co hosts for […]
They missed out on going to Vienna this year but add a year and then ‘Minus One’ and we think Cyprus are on to a Eurovision equation that could score them an A+. However the Eurovision mathematician in us needs another element to complete this formula. Yes ‘Minus […]
Two Eurovision winners come together for a potential Eurovision 2016 entry for Sweden. Thomas G:son confirmed on Swedish National Radio ‘Sveriges Radio’ that he has collaborated with Eurovision 2015 winner, Måns Zelmerlöw, on a song that has been submitted for Melodifestivalen 2016. Who will perform the song? […]
It would seem that the Swiss Cuckoo Clock failed to wake up SRF (Swiss National Broadcaster) as they have fallen asleep on the job with their Eurovision 2016 National Selection process and not realise that Eric Saade entered a song! Eric Saade appears to have submitted an entry […]
Yesterday it was reported that the BBC would hold a massive search for their Eurovision 2016 entry and the internet almost broke – watch out Kim Kardashian we didn’t need to get naked with a bottle of champagne! So this morning the BBC released a formal statement of intent. […]
You gotta love how open Swedes are! Just how open Eurovision winner Måns Zelmerlöw was with us yesterday as he started his European Tour was refreshing and eye-opening. He certainly is the Hero of the night as he opened up to us about his exploits on Tinder, his love […]
You know that saying ‘You get what you put in‘ – well that seems to be the case today with news coming from the EBU Reference Committee. 2016 will see the Big 5 plus the host country performing in the Semi Finals. The Eurovision Reference Committee have ruled […]
I feel like I am hosting the Eurovision Song Contest when I say welcome to Eurovision Winner Måns Zelmerlöw live across Europe tonight-but that is exactly what it is. Yes the ‘Hero’ of Eurovision will be live tonight and you can tune in. RTE(Irish National Broadcaster) has an exclusive […]