It didn’t take long before the Dutch medias started discussing who should try to do what has failed for Glennis Grace, Treble, Edsilia Rombley, Hind and now also De Toppers: bring the Netherlands into the Eurovision Song Contest final. The Netherlands hasn’t been in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest since 2004, where just… Read more
I am very pleased that Denmark made it to the final, and that we now, once again, have all five Nordic countries in the final. I managed to get 10 out of 10 in guessing the qualifiers from the second semi-final, but will I also get the winner right? My boyfriend asked me before the… Read more
Another scandal has hit the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest the day before the big final. This time it is Spain pushing the rules quite far with not broadcasting the semi-final with the cancellation of televoting as a result – and now they have gone a step further by publishing the result of their jury points.… Read more
At the press conference for the ones qualifying from the second semi-final Sakis Rouvas and Svetlana Loboda gave each their little performance. Together with 8 other acts they both qualified from Thursday’s second semi-final. Read more
Shortly after the 10 qualifiers from the second semi-final were known a draw decided which postion in the final the ten lucky ones will be performing at. See the video to see how they reacted to their further destiny. Read more
Most people seem to think that Romania stole their spot for the final and Bosnia and Herzegovina’s statements are beginning to annoy me. In the meantime Iceland and Portugal appear to have stolen quite some hearts among the fans and the press – and Lys Assia is being abused. I can’t really say I was… Read more
The day after the first semi-final the Eurovision Song Contest is officially hit by a couple of scandals. Head jury, Filipp Kirkorov, is seeing the Norwegian participant privately and Toppers are threatening to boycott the final should they qualify – EuroVisionary explains what is actually going on! Ever since Filipp Kirkorov turned up to meet… Read more
Shortly after the 10 qualifiers from the first semi-final were known a draw decided which postion in the final the ten lucky ones will be performing at. See the video to see how they reacted to their further destiny. Read more
Earlier we brought you five video clips from the Dutch party, To The Top With The Toppers, and now we finish this fabolous party with the remaining five videos. Among these you’ll find Alexander Rybak, Svetlana Loboda and two songs from the Russian edition of Mama Mia. EuroVisionary brings you a total of 10 videos… Read more
Toppers pulled off a fantastic party with a full concert plus performances from Alexander Rybak and Svetlana Loboda. Singers from the Russian version of the theatre edition of Mama Mia dropped by to show off their talents as well. Here are the first five videos. EuroVisionary brings you a total of 10 videos from the… Read more
The Toppers performed their own special version of Robbie Williams Angel. This version from the Dutch party is in both English and Dutch. Read more
A welcome reception that turned out to be a gigantic party with several winners performing, a first dress rehearsal with script mistakes, a fabulous Dutch party and lots of mosquito bites, that was basically my Sunday and Monday. Sunday evening it was time for the official opening of the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest. What should… Read more
The tradition welcome reception had been transformed into a gigantic party where several former participants, including a lot of winners, performed. In seven videos EuroVisionary show you performances from Dana International, Marija Serifovic, Teach-In, Dschinghis Khan, t.A.T.u, Dima Bilan, Carola and Ruslana. The official opening of the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest took place last night.… Read more
2004 Eurovision Song Contest winner Ruslana performed her winning song Wild Dances at the opening party of the 2009 Contest in Moscow. Read more
Carola performed all three of her Eurovision Song Contest entries at the official opening of the 2009 Contest: Invincible from 2006, Främling from 1983 and her winner from 1991 Fångad Av En Stormvind. Read more
Dima Bilan performed both his Eurovision Song Contest entries, Never Let You Go from 2006 and Believe from 2008, at the official opening party in relation to the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow. Read more
At the official opening of the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest t.A.T.u performed their 2003 entry Nje vjer, nje bojsa. Read more
Dschinghis Khan, who represented Germany in 1979 where they finished 4th. performed at the opening of the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest. Read more
The 1975 Eurovision Song Contest winners Teach-In performed their winner song Dinge Dong at the official opening party in relation to the Eurovision Song Contest 2009. Read more
EuroVisionary brings you videos from the official opening of the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest on 10th of May. In this first video Dana International is performing her 1998 winner Diva and Marija Serifovic is performing her Molitva that won in 2007. Read more
At their first press conference Toppers performed a special Big Band version of their entry Shine and at their second press conference it was time for a Honkeytonk version. Just how entertaining that was the video will show. Read more
Toppers have shown us that they know how to entertain – and at the second press conference a special arrival caught attention. They simply made their entrance on a bicycle trip around the press conference hall. Read more
An Icelandic party with lots of good music, great performances and fantastic food – and Vladimir Putin inspecting the press centre which is getting more and more crowded and directly dangerous when Patricia Kaas is around, those are the keywords for the past two days. After a week the press centre has now reached its… Read more
Slovenian Quartissimo decided to have a little music quiz at their second press conference. The fastest ones in guessing which songs they were playing won a t-shirt. Read more
Ronan Keating might be flying to Moscow if Denmark qualifies for the Eurovision Song Contest final, but in case he doesn’t make he sends his support to Brinck via a video message shown at the press conference. Read more