[AdSense-B] Bom dia! We are here! After a hectic morning (Eurovision never starts smoothly) we at #escYOUnited are in the press centre and ready to go! Today will be the first day of rehearsals from Azerbaijan, Iceland, Albania, Belgium, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Israel, Belarus, Estonia and Bulgaria and as I’m sure you agree there are already some big rehearsals so …
[AdSense-B] We need to look back before we can look forward, so let’s take a look at what #YOU thought of yesterday’s entry from Norway… Padraic D. (Facebook) – “Generally speaking I don’t usually have a positive stance to winners returning as by and large I find their returning songs weaker than their winners. I immediately think of Niamh Kavanagh …
[AdSense-B] Alekseev, Belarus’ representative for the upcoming contest in Lisbon, has appeared on Estonian TV to perform the official Eurovision version of his entry “Forever” as part of his promotional push for May. The Ukrainian singer has stepped up his preparations for the contest in Tallinn, where he has also performed for a local crowd on Friday evening. After little …
This is the last big piece of the puzzle, before we all finally can properly speculate, who’s going to qualify, and who won’t. The Running Order has finally been revealed, and now we know, when every semi-final country will perform. [AdSense-B] A total of 43 countries will take part in this years contest, and 37 out of these 43 countries …
After tonight’s national final, Belarus decided that they will send Alekseev with his song “Forever” to Lisbon! The full lineup of performances tonight was: Adagio – “Ty i ja” Alekseev – “Forever” Shuma – “Chmarki” NAPOLI – “Chasing Rushes” Anastasiya Malashkevich – “World On Fire” Gunesh – “I Won’t Cry” Radiovolna – “Subway Lines” Alen Hit – “I Don’t Care” …
Belarus’ selection has taken a dramatic twist today, after an open letter signed by seven of the participants in the selection has ultimately seen one of the participants withdraw their entry! [AdSense-B] The controversy surrounds Alekseev, whose entry “Forever” fails the EBU rule regarding the performance or release of songs before 1st September 2017. Regardless of this, the public broadcaster …
One of the most weird and wonderful stages of any national final season is the Belorussian auditions round, where the hopefuls for the selection meet in Minsk and sing their hearts out, one by one, for the assembled judges. It has thrown up zombie shows, questionable vocals and erm, unique concepts in previous years, and the latest round of Belorussian …
In an unusual announcement, the EBU have announced that Belarus will host the 2018 Junior Eurovision Song Contest. In recent years the winner of the previous year’s contest is offered first refusal to host, today it has been announced that the winner of the 2017 contest will not get to host the contest (unless Belarus win). This news isn’t going …
[AdSense-B] It’s only been two days since the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 kicked off in dramatic style (I know, some of us are still reeling over Finland!) but we have to dust ourselves down and get going, because 18 more countries are set to take to the Eurovision stage! Tonight’s 18 acts can be found below; ?? SERBIA – Tijana …
We’ve seen and heard the rehearsals for all countries in the second semi-final, teaser clips have been released and full videos of the performances are now available. So it’s the perfect time to ask the all-important question – which songs will qualify from the second semi-final? We’ve created a poll with all 18 participants in the semi-final and you can pick ten …
