We continue to bring you exclusive interview with Eurovision hopefulls from all around the continent. Today, we are also having a stop at Iceland as we had a chat with Rúnar Eff Rúnarsson. Rúnar, how would you describe yourself in just two short sentences? – Energetic: I always have atleast 3 balls in the air at the same time. 🙂 Happy: I …
This evening Iceland revealed the entries for the upcoming Söngvakeppnin. These are the following : Linda Hartmanns – Ástfangin (Obvious Love) (Linda Hartmanns & Erla Bolladóttir) Hildur – Bammbaramm (Hildur Kristín Stefánsdóttir) Svala Björgvinsdóttir – Ég veit það (Paper) (Einar Egilsson, Svala Björgvinsdóttir, Lester Mendez & Lily Elise) Júlí Heiðar Halldórsson & Þórdís Birna Borgarsdóttir – Heim til þín (Get Back Home) (Júlí Heiðar …
The Icelandic public broadcaster, RUV, has annonced more information about the upcoming Söngvakeppnin. It was announced that like previous years their will be 2 semi-finals and the final night. During the final 2 super finalists will be choosen using 50% professional jury & 50% televoting and the winner will be decided by televoting. The dates of the shows are as follows: …
For one Eurovision fan in particular, Iceland could very easily say “We Are Number One” in 2017 by choosing one artist in particular – Stefán Karl Stefánsson, better known as the Icelandic children’s show LazyTown’s Robbie Rotten. You read that correctly. After the latter part of 2016 saw the children’s TV villain’s song “We Are Number One” gain rapid popularity …
Your votes have been counted, the results are in and you can stop voting now, Europe and beyond! It’s now time to officially reveal which songs you have predicted to qualify, and how that compares to the rankings of the team here in Stockholm! We were amazed at the response to our poll so thank you very much to all …
After months of preparation, nerve-wracking national selection shows, hours of rehearsals, countless interviews and press meetings, tonnes of partying (there’s room for that at Eurovision t00) and a little dose of sightseeing, the stage is set, the artists are raring to go and we are finally here. Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time for the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 to begin! …
Greta Salóme is one of three (yes, three!) returnees from the 2012 contest and this time she goes solo. Her song holds a lot of meaning to her and Eurovision fans as you can see from our interview with the Icelandic singer. Matt speaks to Greta about the voices and meaning behind her song, the beauty of Iceland and Christmas …
The second round of rehearsals has started with Azerbaijan. Samra sounded very bad on the first tryout. The staging was quite nice, though being a bit dark. She was wearing a gold/beige shirt and pants. There were four backing vocals with her. Choreography got a bit better. The reaction is press center was just silent. In the last tryout there …
2016 is the year, that marks the 30 year anniversary for Iceland’s debut at the Eurovision Song Contest, and with this, the island with about over 300.000 inhabitants celebrated this with a spectacular show. To show how much the Icelandic people care for the song contest, they opened the show with a spectacular opening of previous Icelandic entries from the …
I managed to catch up with Swedish songwriters, producers and identical twins Ylva and Linda Persson about their 2016 Eurovision journey, they have entered many national selections this year, so I decided to ask some questions about their Eurovision Journey. What makes competing with Songs in the national finals special? We have a huge passion and love for Eurovision …
