Lisbon, 7 March 2022 It’s there. Your annual appointment with Portugal’s fashion bonanza doubling as a music festival. It is time to cover, to critique to savour the couture and colour locale of Festival da Canção. Tonight saw the second semifinal of the Portuguese selection take place, with the 10 last National Final songs taking the stage for the first time. …
Stockholm, 7 March 2022 A quick update on Sweden: SVT have released the running order for the upcoming finale of Melodifestivalen. Sweden were the first country to implement a producer-decided running order in their national final, which (like many Melodifestivalen concepts) eventually made its way into Eurovision proper as well. These running orders officially are designed to make the contest …
Lisbon, 5 March 2022 It’s there. Your annual appointment with Portugal’s fashion bonanza doubling as a music festival. It is time to cover, to critique to savour the couture and colour locale of Festival da Canção. The Portugese music festival will hold its semifinals tonight and on Monday, with a line-up of 10 songs each. Tonight the following songs competed: …
Stockholm, 5 March 2022 Hallå(baloo?), dear Eurovisionista’s, welcome to the first installement of ESCUnited’s Sweden reviews. If you’re only familiar with Andra Chansen, you’re in for a surprise. Sweden have replaced Andra Chansen with their brand-new semifinals which function quite differently. In previous melfests, the eight second chancers would square off in production-aligned duels, where the act with the most …
Helsinki, 26 February 2022 Hyvää iltaa Eurooppa, we’re bringing you more news from the North, with Finland picking their entrant for tonight. As the title implies rock legends The Rasmus fulfilled the expectations and won the whole event, and will represent Finland in Turin with the song “Jezebel”. However, before Lauri & co won, Finland put up an impressive show. …
Stockholm, 26 February 2022 Heats are being rounded up in Sweden as their prestigious Melodifestivalen reveals the final 7 acts competing for the honour of representing Sweden in Turin. Several of the potential contenders were saved for this heat, let’s see if anyone can dethrone the current expected winners (Cornelia Jakobs and Anders Bagge) as we navigate through another night …
Helsinki, 26 February 2022 Hyvää iltapäivää, Eurooppa! We’re gearing ourselves up for another National Finals Saturday, but only one country will be picking its entry tonight: Suomi, popularly known as Finland will host their annual selection show Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu, with a line-up of 7 established acts, one of which will represent the nordic nation in Turin next May. As …
Geneva, 25 February 2022 The ongoing conflict between Ukraine and the Russian federation has sent waves of outrage rippling through the Eurovision Song Contest as well. Yesterday, Ukrainian public Broadcaster Suspilne (UA:PBC) posted an open letter to the EBU, asking the European Broadcasting Union to suspend Russia’s participation in the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest. A suspension from the EBU would …
Stockholm, 19 February 2022 Sweden’s Melodifestivalen is hitting its stride, with the second live show being aired tonight. The prestigious festival, hosted in Stockholm and presented by Oscar Zia and tonight’s guest host Eva Rydberg, will eventually decide which song and artist shall represent Sweden in the 2022 Eurovision song contest, to be held in Turin. Rydberg stole the show, …
Ljubljana, 19 February 2022 A small ex-Yugo country bordering Italy, Slovenia has always been a quirky force in Europe, with an equally delectable selection to match. Slovenia will pick their entrant tonight but before they do, we would like to take the time and scrutinize their entries for your pleasure and leisure. Will this year’s EMA prove itself as good or …
