….always a day late, but bringing you all the good stuff…. or Spam, depending how you look at it. Planet work was a bit poo yesterday and I was properly ill too ( though not like Andrew) so I took the evening off….. Glad i’m raring to […]
Join me, Richard, to bring you all the action from today’s first dress rehearsal here in Valletta and all of the participating nations take part for the first time in the same day. If you don’t know the drill, come back from 10:00CET/09:00GMT and refresh the page on a regular basis […]
Well whilst Andrew and Richard are reporting from a rather damp Malta ( my heart bleeds) – here on planet work, I get to write about what you lot have seen – If you looked at Youtube ;) Russia. When I hear the first 30 seconds of […]
Eurovision Ireland are here in Malta to cover the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Valetta. The rehearsals begin on Tuesday 15th November and run for 4 days. So in advance of that and in a similar vein to articles published for the main Eurovision I am going […]
During the mid-1990s, the Eurovision Song Contest changed dramatically. In 1993, 3 new countries that previously competed as part of Yugoslavia debuted in Millstreet in Ireland. The following year, a further 7 new countries from across the former Eastern Bloc debuted in Dublin. Eastern Europe had arrived en-masse […]
She has a smile that can light up the room! Hear what happened when Lisa-Jayne caught up with 2004 winner Ruslana at the Islington Assembley Hall where she was the special guest of the Association of Ukranians in Great Britain where she headlined a concert to celebrate their […]
This year’s Junior Eurovision Song Contest, to be held in Valletta, Malta will have 17 participating nations. However, we have three returning nations, which sadly means three withdrawing nations too. Returning Countries Poland (TVP) is returning to the competition for the first time since 2004. Israel (IBA) last […]
After weeks of meetings, discussions, false leeks, EBU visits and altered announcement dates it has finally been announced publicly that next year’s Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Ukraine’s capital city Kyiv. The bidding phase had ended with Dnipro, Kyiv and Odessa being the last three […]
So it has been a good two months now since we were in Stockholm for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. However, it is only four months to go before we all visit Valletta for this year’s Junior Eurovision Song Contest. After the Press Conference in Stockholm, I explained […]
Today we celebrate a little experiment that happened exactly 60 years ago on a cloudy and wet night in Lugano Switzerland. Seven countries had gathered to enter a song into a European song competition to see whether the idea of different music, language and culture could combine to make […]