2023
Yearly Archives: 2023
Sanremo you say? – And you thought FiK was a hard watch!
Amadeus, in this his final year of being in charge of the Sanremo festival, has announced the thirty (count them) songs that are going...
19 December – I’d hold my breath ’til my face turned blue
Do you ever feel old when you watch certain performers do what they do best? Those singers who were teenagers when they took part...
Iceland Leads Calls to Bar Israel from Eurovision 2024
Calls for Israel's exclusion from the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest have emerged, from Icelandic musicians and organisations.
The Association of Composers and Lyricists of Iceland...
Lithuanian participants and format confirmed for 2024 Eurovision
Lithuanian broadcaster LRT has announced another round of EUROVIZIJA.LT to pick a song for the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest.
Traditionally, one of the biggest Eurovision...
37 plus one to be confirmed
Thirty-seven state broadcasters have confirmed they will take part in the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest, with just TVR (Romania) holding out on sending its...
18 December – The weapons down, no more war
We're concentrating on plucky little Belgium today. Because they have to be commended for their sense of our-turn-ology. That is, with two major broadcasters,...
Olly Alexander to Eurovision – this is a good thing, yeah?
Apparently, all the UK fans' Christmases have come at once, with an announcement on the BBC's top-rated show "Strictly Come Dancing" that Years and...
15 December – So you better listen carefully
Is it us, or are there more false flaggers than ever now? And false flaggers whose native land already participates? Often there's a home...
They’ve announced the songs for Benidormfest 24
So yes, once again RTVE have decided to brighten up the ex-pats February and decamp, so to speak, to the Costa del Britain for...
14 December – Come dance with me tonight
As you'll know, Eurovision is a very fickle thing. Just ask Portugal. Or Austria. Or even the Netherlands. You can languish in the semi-finals...