ESC birthdays 11/12 – Songs about anatomy are always curious
When all else fails, pick a song from those early days of colour. It changed the contest and threw up all sorts of interesting...
ESC birthdays 9/12 – Who would you like to return? KL?...
We like the obscure here at Oneurope. If it's, ahem, popular, it's a bit humdrum. If it gives you, ahem, Euphoria, we'll pass thanks....
ESC birthdays 8/12 – Today I will mostly be wearing pink
Here's a song from a country whose success has been wobbly over the years. They even decided not to send songs for some years...
ESC birthdays 7/12 – Is cuimhin liom ’62 bhí mé 16...
Picture the scene. It's the early 1990s and you've been picked to represent your country. What's more, your country won the previous year, so...
ESC birthdays 6/12 – Birthdays full of gold
I picked a nice uptempo song on Friday to get your weekend going. So I thought I'd continue with the theme. Something uptempo AND...
ESC birthdays 4/12 – Change your name, I dare you
It's Friday and now the darkness has swept across our fine continent, we all need a bit of cheering up. Something uplifting to get...
ESC birthdays 3/12 – Life is “een sprookjesland” my friend
Long before Yardena Arazi, Lill Lindfors, Toto Cutugno and Sakis Rouvas, a grand dame of the contest not only sang in our favourite TV...
December 1 – We only speak one language
Rock isn't a genre we see that much in our favourite TV show. Ballads by the dozen. Schlager aplenty. But rock is overlooked. Lordi...
ESC birthdays 28/11 – Flimsy aquamarines?
I love a challenging song. They sort the men from the boys, or the Mietek Szcześniaks from the Stelios Constantases if you will. I'm...
ESC birthdays 27/11 – Somebody stop the contest!
The end of an era. A phrase oft used in Eurovision circles. We're all waiting to use it when we know - for certain...