Last Saturday, nearly 200 million viewers around the world gathered to watch the Eurovision Song Contest – arguably the most addictive music competition in Europe’s history. The 64th Eurovision Song...
And so it goes – the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 is behind us. The 63rd contest was the first ever to be hosted in Portugal following the country’s triumph at...
There were few surprises in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. Having held, for years, the unenviable record of winless Eurovision participation, Portugal finally took the trophy home. The country’s song...
“Judges voted for Australia. People voted for Russia. And Ukraine won”. This statement best reflected the mixed media and public reactions to the result of the Grand Final of the...
Not many of us will recall that the first Eurovision Song Contest was held in Switzerland in 1956. With a few breaks here and there, this year’s European singing extravaganza...
Ladies and gentlemen, it is finally the time of year we have all been waiting for. Yet another of those semi-amateur European singing talent shows has swooshed past like a...
And so another one of those grotesque European singing shows is over. Sweden had the honour of hosting the Eurovision Song Contest 2013, having clocked its fifth victory in Baku...
So, it’s that time of year again: the Eurovision Song Contest, ladies and gentlemen. 2012 marked the 57th anniversary of Eurovision which, love it or hate it, has firmly established...
As I ran towards the North Greenwich Tube station, the familiar chords of Pink Floyd’s immortal The Wall seemed to be tracing my every step. Behind me at O2 Arena,...