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JESC: United Kingdom Most Likely Not Participating

A founding member of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, the United Kingdom, who participated in the contest in 2003-2005, will most likely not participate in Marsa for the 2014 edition of the contest. Two of the three British broadcasters who are members of the EBU, and therefore eligible to bring the country back to the contest, have revealed to ESCUnited.com …

UK: 1997 Winner Released As Charity Single

Back in 1997 Katrina and the Waves took Europe by storm, and won the Eurovision Song Contest by a landslide, with 227 points in the Point Theatre in Dublin. Today, Irish singer,Lee Matthews has released a cover of the winning song with proceeds going to the charity, Join Our Boys. The Charity has been set up in aid of Duchenne’s Muscular …

#Together: Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2014

Little under two weeks after the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest came to an end, the European Broadcasting Union are preparing the second largest cong contest in Europe, Junior Eurovision Song Contest. Viewers of the Eurovision Song Contest will have noticed that a young girl named Gaia Cauchi performed some of her song ‘The Start’ in the grand final. This young …

Georgia’s jury disqualified – Incoming Ban????

Georgia’s jury is accused of cheating; the votes of the 5 member panel were not included which means a 100% televote was used this Saturday when the results were presented by Nodi Tatishvili and Sophie Gelovani (Georgia 2013 representatives). As it turns out, all five jury members had the exact Top 8 songs (same order) which is statistically basically impossible. …

Conchita Wurst: “Nobody is going to bring me down”

Conchita Wurst won the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 for Austria with her song “Rise like a Phoenix”. So next year we all get to travel to beautiful Vienna (or somewhere else) thanks to a superb performance this past Saturday. Prior to this, Olivia from ESC United interviewed Conchita in London and among other things, this is what the Austrian performer …

EU Demand B&W be ‘Demolished’

Hours after the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest ended the stage and seating began to be removed. Now it has came to light that due to EU rules the former shipyard now needs to be restored to its original state. The EU state that an independently owned venue cannot be renovated using public funding. Because some of the money used to …

Russia wants to start its own version of Eurovision

Needless to say but not everyone in the world is thrilled with a victory of a bearded woman, especially not in Russia. Austria who won the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 with the bearded Drag Queen Conchita Wurst and her anthem “Rise like a Phoenix” on Saturday upset several Russian Lawmakers. The socially conservative politicians are eager to break away from …

Conchita Wurst from Austria wins ESC

The results are in and it was a nail biter but in the end it was Conchita Wurst from Austria who is taking home the trophy and gets to host the 2015 contest. This is Austria’s second victory, their last win was in 1966 so the country (and fans) are overjoyed. She finishes with 290points. We would like to congratulate …

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