Under the title The Radar Post, Esben Svane, who represented Denmark at the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest as drummer in the band A Friend In London, has just released his first album. The album contains 11 songs all in English and several of them have hit potential. It came as a surprise to many fans… Read more
Former double Dutch participants Edsilia Rombley will be given out the point from the Netherlands at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest final on the 23rd of May. Thereby the Netherlands follow countries like Greece and San Marino who have also chosen a former representative. Edsilia Rombley has represented the Netherlands twice at the Eurovision Song Contest.… Read more
Last night Sweden "accidently" revealed that it will be Germany hosting the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest in case Australia would win this year’s contest. In recent years Germany also hosted in 2011 after Lena Meyer-Landrut took Europe by storm with her Satellite the year before. When Australia was announced as special VIP participant for this… Read more
He has tried it all before, having represented his country at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2008. A bit of extra promotion is never a bad thing, and with that in mind Elnur has kicked off his promo tour which will bring him widely around in Europe to Eurovision pre concerts as well as TV… Read more
In North Jutland, Denmark a Greenpeace occupation is currently taking place. 21 activists are involved in the operation to stop Denmark’s first search for shale gas, and one of them is a 64 year old well known actress and former national finalist. In the night between Sunday and Monday Greenpeace occupied an rig in Dybvad,… Read more
Things have been rather quiet lately around Amina who narrowly missed the Eurovision Song Contest victory in 1991, but now she is back. A new EP with four tracks featuring British producer and beatboxer MaJiKer is being released these days. It was extremely close at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1991. France and Sweden ended with… Read more
16 well known Slovenian acts are featured on the new Slove’n’aid project to raise money for Slovenia’s International Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid. Included in this project are four former Eurovision Song Contest participants and several national finalists. Slove’n’aid is as the name implies a Slovenian edition of the well known Band Aid projects. It features… Read more
The Swedish act for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest has been under heavy accusations of copyright infringement of music as well as the visual effects used during the performance. The latter is now being changed. Måns Zelmerlöw won with a record number of points this year’s Melodifestivalen. He will be representing Sweden at the Eurovision Song… Read more
The cold professionel relationship between Danish broadcaster DR and previous Eurovision winner Olsen Brothers hasn’t improved. In relation to BBC hosting the Eurovision Song Contest’s Greatest Hits concert tomorrow evening, Jørgen Olsen is praising the British broadcaster, while DR once again are being attacked. The conflict between Olsen Brothers and Danish broadcaster DR has been… Read more
Yesterday Denmark was met with the sad news of Jørgen Ingmann having passed away. He was Scandinavia’s first Eurovision winner when him and his wife took Europe by storm in 1963, and through reactions from colleagues and friends you get the story about his unique talent as one of the world’s best guitar players, but… Read more
A short while ago the running order for the two semi-finals of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest was revealed. Moldova will open the first one, while Lithuania kicks off the second one two days later. Set to perform after advert breaks are Greece, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. At the allocation draw in January the semi-finalists… Read more
Two months before representing Denmark at the Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, Anti Social Media just signed a record deal. An EP is on the way and on Friday they start their Denmark tour. The coming future looks promising for the young Danish band. Anti Social Media won the Danish final, Melodi Grand Prix, with… Read more
For a few weeks the rumours said that Elnur would once again be representing Azerbaijan. Today, it was confirmed that the successful singer do indeed return to the Eurovision stage this year. He will participate with the song Hour Of The Wolf. In a duet together with Samir, Elnur represented Azerbaijan at it’s Eurovision debut… Read more
While Måns Zelmerlöw is celebrating his victory in Sweden which is just a couple of hours old, the song is already met with accusations of being a copy of a David Guetta song from last summer. The similarities are clear enough, but it is yet to early to say what will come of this. In… Read more
Ekstra attention will be on the Austrian act this year as the country have the honour of hosting the Eurovision Song Contest. Tonight six acts competed to do the almost impossible of follow in the steps of Conchita Wurst. The Makemakes won the the national final with the song I Am Yours. Six acts had… Read more
Due to the idea behind Genealogy and the title of the enty, all attention was on Armenia this evening. Would they present a song that would force EBU to take actions or would they stay within the rules? At the same time as the song was presented this evening, the sixth band member was revealed… Read more
On Satuday Sweden will pick its representative for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. After a total of five rounds so far the songs involved in the national selection, Melodifestivalen are conquering various Swedish charts, but what do the chart placing and poll prediction say about the result? 12 songs have through five selection heats qualified… Read more
A topless Loreen and a Eurovision medley of eight songs of which three were from Israel. Swedish broadcaster SVT surely delivered enough to talk about in tonights second chance heat where eight acts competed in direct duels for the last four spots in the final. This year Sweden’s broadcaster, SVT, had made some changes to… Read more
Minutes ago broadcaster, SBS, presented the artist that will get a lot of extra attention representing Australia at the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest. It will be Guy Sebastian to make the country proud at its Eurovision debut in Vienna. The song will be announced later. As soon as Australia’s participation in this year’s Eurovision Song… Read more
Today Armenian broadcaster revealed the participant representing Australia at their Genealogy project. Five acts spread over five continents have now been presented. One band member and their song is yet to be revealed before we can start guessing on their chances at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. Mary-Jean O’Doherty Vasmatzian is born in the US… Read more
With Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät winning yesterday’s final in Finland, I ask myself the question if they won for all the wrong reasons of if the population honestly thought they came with the best song? I asked the same question last year when Conchita Wurst won the Eurovision Song Contest. The song had been getting a… Read more
Under the name Uuden Musikiin Kilpailu, in general just shortend to UMK, Finland tonight selected their participant for the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest. After three preliminary heats a total of nine acts were left competing in the final, which was won by Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät. Nine acts qualified for tonight’s final in Finland via three preliminary… Read more
This evening five acts competed in the Irish national final, Eurosong, to win a ticket to the Austrian capital of Vienna with the following responsability of representing Ireland at the Eurovision Song Contest. After an entertaining show, Molly Sterling took home the trophy. Previously this month five songs aired on Irish radio got a lot… Read more
Today the fourth member of the Armenian Genealogy project was presented. Stephanie Topalian, singer, songer and actress, from Japan will represent Asia in this project which will compete for Armenia at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest with the song Don’t Deny. Europe, America and Africa has already had their Genealogy member presented. Today followed the one… Read more
Following the presentations of Europe and America in Genealogy, today Vahe Tilbian was announced as the African member of the project which will represent Armenia at the Eurovision Song Contest. He is a singer as well as dancer, born and raised in Ethiopia. First up was Essaï Altounian representing Europe in Genealogy, then followed Tamar Kaprelian from America. Today Vahe Tilbian… Read more
Estonia and Lithuania both picked their Eurovision participants last night, and tonight followed third and last Baltic entry as Supernova found its winner. Aminata was chosen to represent her country in Vienna with the song titled Love Injected. Three Baltic entries all to be picked in the same weekend. That is how things turned out with… Read more