#BIRTHDAY: Sonia from the UK is 52 today Do you wish that contests were close these days? The current scoring makes things a little more dramatic, but there were days when it genuinely came down to the last set of votes. In the 1990s there were a couple […]
SBS have announced that Australia will be using an internal selection process to choose their entry for Eurovision 2023 in Liverpool,UK rather than their National Final Australia Decides. Australia have used the internal selection method before . When they joined the contest in 2015, Guy Sebastian was chosen […]
#BIRTHDAY: Nicki French from the UK has a birthday today Those decades keep on coming, and it’s the turn of that which some call the ‘noughties’. It’s an odd term, so we’ll just call it the first decade of the 21st Century. Sure, you could argue that today’s […]
As we all know by now, the EBU released a statement on Friday that the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 will not be held in Ukraine. The decision comes after on-going discussions with UA:PBC following the victory of Kalush Orchestra in Turin a few weeks ago, as well as […]
The Second semi final of Eurovision 2022 has just finished in Turin , Italy . Eighteen songs performed for the last 10 qualifying places ,only 10 could go through to this Saturday’s Grand Final at the Pala Olimpico in Turin .The lucky 10 are : FINLAND – The […]
#BIRTHDAY: Mary Hopkin from the UK is 72 today What’s it like to be runner-up? If you’re the host country, then it’s ideal. If you think you’re in with a shot of winning, then you’ll always be ‘first loser’. Alternatively, there are times when winning is more embarrassing […]
#BIRTHDAY: Engelbert Humperdinck from the UK is 86 today Eurovision is a young person’s game. Or is it? People of all ages from 11 to, well, unknown, despite a certain presenter in 1987 telling us about the rising stars taking part. Our friends in the UK are amongst […]
Buona Sera Europa,Buongiorno Australia! While John and Richard are doing a sterling job out in Turin , bringing you coverage from the Eurovision venue, those of us Eurovision Ireland team members who were unable to be in Turin did not want our lovely followers to think we’d disappeared […]
#ESC2022: Eurovision Ireland reviews… Part VII We at Eurovision Ireland have taken a look at the songs participating in the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest (plus one other). In seven reviews, we pick apart the songs, and see if we can find our favourite. We have a guest reviewer […]
Yesterday, Sam Ryder joined Scott Mills & Chris Stark on their BBC Radio 1 show. Sam took part in the feature “Your Lyrics, Different Song”, where he sung ‘Space Man’ over the instrumental of Måneskin’s ‘I Wanna Be Your Slave’. The result can be seen below: Let us […]