As we reported last night the semi final of Turkvizyon 2014 took place – you can read the article of qualifiers HERE. However our friends at Eurovoix have spotted some potential voting irregularities that actually affect the countries that qualified for the upcoming Grand Final. Two key events took […]
Turkey has not been in the Eurovision Song Contest since 2012. We miss them and their ethnic sounds that added a “je ne sais quoi” to the Eurovision family. Instead, they set up their own contest for members (and guests) of the Turkic-speaking world. Not just sovereign […]
Cuckoo – the first Swiss Eurovision 2015 song selections are on-line for you to watch and the Swiss have not disappointed with the wonderful and the weird! The songs come from artists from Switzerland, Ireland, The UK and Turkey. The first songs uploaded to the SRF platform are […]
So we have had a lot of Eurovision 2015 confirmations, intentions and apologies so we thought it wise to have a quick run through the list to see where we stand. As we say ALL the time that until the official deadlines are passed and all documentation received […]
It has now been a couple of years since Turkey took part in the Eurovision Song Contest. We at Eurovision Ireland have certainly missed them and will do so again in Vienna next year. But this does not mean that Turkey have exactly been idle in the meantime. […]
Turkey – Kenan Doğulu was out favourite act at Eurovision 2007 when he romped to 4th place in the contest with his catchy ‘Shake It Up Şekerim’ – oh how we miss Turkey at Eurovision. Well we missed his recent song ‘Living it up’ which came out during the […]
Germany are set to make their debut at Turkvizyon 2014. With a Turkish population of over 1.5 million resident in Germany this is no surprise. However this is a big leap forward for TRT and their rivalry to Eurovision. There are no details as of yet as to their […]
Tuesday September 9th was a great day for Balkan confirmations that they intend on being at Eurovision 2015 in Vienna. So who do we have now attending next year’s 60th contest. 26 countries so far have said they will be at Eurovision 2015 but remember that this is […]
More countries confirm that they will be attending Eurovision 2015 today. Well today we had updates from Belarus, Latvia and Poland. We also got national selection details from Germany. That provisionally gives us 24 countries whom have said they will be in Vienna for 2015. The below list is […]
We know the dates of Eurovision 2015 and we know that it will be hosted in Vienna. So all we now need are countries/broadcasters to participate. The following list is what we have seen announced so far as an “intention to participate” at Eurovision 2015. Of course not […]
Turkey – Eurovision 2010 Turkish representatives maNga will take another bite of a Song Contest. The MTV winning Turkish rockers who came second at Eurovision in 2010 with their song ‘We Should Be The Same’ are back for more. This time however they will be the Turkish (TRT) […]
Will Turkey be at Eurovision 2015? That is the question that has been dominating Eurovision speculation. There were also reports that Kenan Williams could be flying the Turkish flag at the contest in Vienna. Eurovision Ireland spoke to the Head of International Public Relations Ms. TÜZÜN at TRT […]
RTE (Irish National Broadcaster) announced their Autumn/Winter tv schedule and there was one programme that caught our attention – ‘What’s Another Year – The Shay Healy Story’. Shay Healy is the composer of the first Eurovision win for Johnny Logan back in 1980. ‘What’s Another Year’ gave Ireland […]
There is always much anticipation when a Eurovision winner releases a new song. There is especially a buzz around that song when the artist has over 2 million followers on Twitter alone. So you can imagine that 3 hours ago when it was posted on Twitter this was […]
Turkey – Hadise returns with her new song ‘Nerdesin Aşkım/Where are you my love?’ and she is one “Bad Ass Chick”. Forget the cute Eurovision 2009 ‘Düm tek tek’ as Hadise is all grown up and likes to hang out with the “Bad Boys” – don’t we all […]