Eurovision Chat

The more I experience Eurovision, the more fascinating it gets. With the advance of the Eurovision season, the continent seems to get swept by a wave of local shows, each one more attractive, curious, and colourful than the other. The name holds true for Britain too. The prominent British composer of musical theatre, author of [...]

Who do you think will the 2009 host broadcaster for the junior Eurovision be? Whatever you thought, it is Ukraine and nowhere else that the little sister of Eurovision heads next year. Kyiv and the Ukrainian national broadcaster NTU won the opportunity to host and produce the huge TV show at the HoD meeting in [...]

Indeed Malta is a small country and as people on the island joke, there is at least one person in every family, who has joined Eurovision as least once. So, it’s small wonder there are gossips and rumours around the Eurosong in Malta, especially about former Maltese Eurovision artists. Some say that Natalie Gauci, winner [...]

Bulgaria saw the start of its national television selection for 2009 Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow. The show “Be a Star” (“Badi zvezda”) was launched last week. It will be aired every Thursday, and it aims at selecting three contestants every week. One of the participants will be selected by a professional jury, the other [...]

Are you having some time off Eurovision? Yes? Shocking! Some people are working hard for us to be able to enjoy the party again and again. Me being among them, I’ll let you know what’s cooking about the up-coming Eurovision Song Contest So, above all, Mr. Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister of Russia, announced that the [...]

The European audience has just chosen its favourite 2008 Eurovision song – Belive! He comes from Russia and this is his second participation in the Eurovision Song Contest.   Here is the top ten ranking: Russia Ukraine Greece Armenia Norway Serbia Turkey Azerbaijan Israel Bosnia & Herzegovina

Here is the list of the 10 qulifiers from the Second Semi-Final.       Ukraine Croatia Albania Iceland Georgia Denmark Sweden Latvia Turkey Portugal

New Eurovision Trophy was just introduced by Maria Serifovic and Lys Assia at a press center conference… I’m sorry for the low quality of the pictires, but this is the best result I could get with this camera.      

Tonight we enjoyed a magnificent show. The First Semi-Final was a blend of wonderful songs and performances. Only 10 survived out of the 19 participants. Here is the list of the songs qualifying for the Final on 24 May:   Greece Romania Bosnia & Herzegovina Finland Russia Israel Azerbaijan Armenia Poland Norway

Four amazing hours of Ukrainian party, and so many other participants performing during it: last night saw a massive Eurovision show at Euroclub, Sava Centre, Belgrade. A show that we don’t get every day in Eurovision – this was last-night’s Ukrainian party within Eurovision 2008. Most delegations had come to the event marking it as [...]