22 March – Don’t you be shy tonight

Our favourite TV show is a singing contest. Well, actually it's a songwriters' contest. But our performers don't just sing. Many of them have...

Joci Pápai to sing for Hungarian Eurovision supper

So after five weeks of singing and shouting and voting (and an impenetrable language) ... we got down to the final eight songs in...

A Dal rolls towards grand final

A second A Dal semi-final this evening in Budapest saw four more songs through to next week’s grand final. In the first round of voting,...

Hungarian A Dal continues its journey

Now that the three first round heats have been completed in A Dal 2019, the eighteen qualified songs have been redrawn into two semi...

Who made it through in Hungary?

The final heat of Hungary’s A Dal 2019 aired this evening, and we now have the eighteen acts that will take us through the...

28 January – Mama let the devil in her house

Isn't it always the way that most songs have themes running through them. Falling in love, falling out of love, tributes, those sorts of...

Second set of qualifiers from Hungarian A Dal

Hungary has once again treated us to a decent heat; the second of three in the first phase of A Dal. In case you...

Hungary for success? – A Dal has served up a first...

Hungary’s six-week A Dal selection got under way tonight, with nine songs competing for a place in the country’s Eurovision 2019 line-up. A Dal may...

MTV announces Hungarian A Dal line-up

Something old, something new. Familiar faces and first timers feature in the Eurovision selection announced yesterday by Hungarian broadcaster MTV. The 2019 A Dal competition...

22 September – Sores are on my back

Eurovision these days is all about English, isn't it? No other language gets a look in, does it? English is always the way forward. Except...