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 …
TONIGHT: Eurovision 2016 Semi-Final 1
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! …
“The song is about listening to the positive voices” Interview with Iceland’s Greta Salóme
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 …
Rehearsal recap: Azerbaijan, Montenegro, Iceland
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 …
Hera Bjork’s show in Stockholm
Eurovision is getting closer and closer. Every year various events are organized during the day and night all over the host city. One of the events is Hera Bjork’s one woman show The Queen of effing everything that will be held on May 7th in Stockholm’s Playhouse Theater. There will be the shows one at 17:30h and the second one at 21:00h. If …
Iceland: Greta Salóme Is Heading To Stockholm
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 …
Iceland: 3 More Acts to The Final
Tonight saw the second semi final in Iceland’s national final, Söngvakeppnin 2016. Three acts have been granted a place in the final next week, they will join last week’s qualifiers, and one more song will join them as a wildcard. The acts taking part tonight: Alda Dís Arnardóttir – Augnablik Elísabet Ormslev – Á ný Erna Mist & Magnús Thorlacius – …
TONIGHT: 10 Shows – 3 Finals – 1 Big Night
Tonight is a huge night in Eurovisionland. (Potentially) Three songs will be selected for Stockholm, Switzerland, Denmark and Italy. Italian TV channel will offer the opportunity to the winner to go to Eurovision, but, that is down to the act. Ukraine: Semi-Final 2 SunSay – Love Manifest Pur:Pur – We do Change Peaks of Kings – Last Hope Pringlez – Easy to love Victoria Petryk – Overload …
TONIGHT: Watch 6 Shows
After a rather show beginning to the National Final season, today and beyond it is full steam ahead! We will have no less than six countries broadcasting shows for their national selection! Ukraine – Semi-Final 1: 18:00 CET Anastasia Prykhodko – I am Free Now The Hardkiss – Helpless Tonya Matvienko – Tin Whistle Vladislav Kurasov – I’m Insane Låvika …
Iceland: Listen to the Songvakeppnin Entries
The National Final season is well and truly heating up! Today another country has revealed their potential entries for the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest! Icelandic broadcaster, RUV, have revealed the twelve songs in contention for the title of Icelandic representative for ESC 2016. The entries: Sigga Eyrún “Kreisí” Helgi Valur Ásgeirsson “Óvær” Erna Mist & Magnús Thorlacius “Ótöluðorð” Erna Hrönn …