2025
Yearly Archives: 2025
Norway selects Lillehammer for Melodi Grand Prix 2026 final
For the first time, the final of Norway’s premier Eurovision selection show, the Melodi Grand Prix 2026 (MGP), will be staged in the town...
19 November – Pack your troubles and make fun, you’ll enjoy it, you’ll see
Our friends in Malta are now firmly in the Eurovision family. It wasn't always so. After a few goes in the 1970s, they had...
18 November – Twenty five reasons to leave you But I’m still feeling kinda...
Our friends in Germany haven't had the most consistent of times of late. Yes, they've had one win in this Century, but also a...
16 November – You’re so heavy
You have three minutes. You have to make an impression. Maybe your vocals are beyond compare. But are they enough? Do you need that...
You mean the contest started before 2012? New Pod!
I *know* it's a couple of weeks late and i've missed the usual podcast timeline but here it is! - At just over an...
15 November – I have met my destiny
Just once in a while, we'll pick a birthday for a member of a group. And we've gone obscure. Possibly. Let's see if her...
14 November – I will never say the end
The free language rule. It's part and parcel of the typical Eurovision experience. But in the 1980s it was a different story. Countries could...
13 November – Clothes can make anybody look so right
The Eurovision Song Contest has yielded some real legends over the years. In fact, you could say that a certain amount of 'Eurovision Royalty'...
12 November – We ram-di-dam-dam-dam
Every year there's that song. Yes, every year. You know the one. The one that gets "rave" reviews. The one that the fans out...
11 November – I had a fortune and they abused it
Have you ever thought what the stars of Eurovision have to go through on the big night? Apart from the pressure of representing their...