Irish broadcaster RTÉ have announced that they spent €331,000 sending Brendan Murray to Eurovision in Kyiv. This is despite the broadcaster making a €20 million loss last year. Compared to a rather average country like the Netherlands, the Irish cost are quite low. Read more
Panagiotis Koufogiannis has made it through to the final of The X Factor Greece. The runner up from the Cypriot national final in 2015 was one of the favourites to win from already from his first audition. Should he win, he’s an obvious candidate for Eurovision 2018. Read more
Seventeen songs, a tie, a tragic destiny and, believe it or not, computer chaos. That I met as I travelled back to the Danish final from 1979. This would be a show that in many ways showed how the Danish broadcaster still searched for the right format. Read more
20 years after the tragic death of John Denver, 1997 Eurovision runner up, Irish Marc Roberts is now taking his tribute to Denver’s many hits on tour. Marc grew up with the music of John Denver and as such is very familiar with it. Read more
Tijana Bogićević has just released a new video for the song titled “Ti Imaš Pravo” which translates to You Have The Right. Fans are very pleased with the song which is another collaboration with Dušan Alagić. Read more
This year’s French Eurovision representative Alma, along with famous Armenian artists, shot for an Armenian movie called “Armenia”. She will play together with artists such artists as Mikael Aramyan, Hovhannes Azoyan, Sos Janibekyan, Arsen Grigoryan and Satenik Hakhnazaryan. Read more
First the song, and then the artists. That’s the format by which Switzerland will select their 2018 Eurovision Song Contest representative. Swiss artists, or residents in the country, will be prioritised in the selection process which starts in September. Read more
