Lucy:Ok…I’m a die-hard British euro fan…but dare I say I’m not a fan of our song this year? And I do mean the song, Mae Muller is so exceptional in every way. But “I Wrote A Song” reminds me of “Embers” in 2021, in the sense that all I can picture when ...
Hot British guys who manage to blend RnB with soul and funk, each of them in a very unique and painfully cool way. You’ve got Zak Abel, SG Lewis, Tom Misch, Toulouse, Louis Mattrs, Jarreau Vandal… The list goes on. And actually, I am near obsessed with each of these guys. Scand...
” Georgia’s 2014 entry which is commonly referenced on fan lists of eccentric entries at Eurovision. Though the band’s effort with vocalist Mariko Ebralidze failed to qualify for the Grand Final, there is no doubting the quality of The Shin and their unique blending of Western...
Entries from the United Kingdom came further down the list with Eurovision’s 1981 winning song, Making Your Mind Up, by Bucks Fizz at No. 8; Ooh Aah Just A Little Bit by Gina G (1996) at No. 15; James Newman’s Embers (2021) at No. 17; Storm by Surie (2018) at No. 32; ...
Well since coronavirus has derailed the party train and entire countries are being put into lockdown, let’s try keep the party going indoors (with space and capacity limitations) and queue up some of Ireland’s best ever Eurovision entries, such as their 1996 entry “My Lovely Horse!...
Some National Finals are a single-day affair, while others slowly curate their list of finalists over sets of semis and heats. France, however, in their first public selection since 2007, decided to go a bit unorthodox. Three entries were performed on the showLes chansons d’abord, hosted ...
More often than not, the winners are not even the most interesting entries. Eurovision has cultivated a reputation as a haven for the proudly outré, the zany, the unabashedly unexplainable. Watching Eurovision every May is like being dipped head first into a bubbling phantasmagoria. The ...
and the results were announced the following day on Terry Wogan’s Radio 2 show on March 9, 1979. Black Lace’s “Mary Ann” was the winner of a not very remarkable field of similarly green entries (Guys ‘n Dolls being the only recognizable entry at the time, alongside a pre-fame No...
none of the competing songs included a key change, a defining gimmick of contest entries. all three live shows aired in the United Kingdom on BBC One (the semifinals usually air on BBC Three). The semifinal allocation draw aired live on BBC Two. Iceland participated in a contest hosted by...