[AdSense-B] Ireland were the latest country to reveal their candidate for Lisbon as Ryan O’Shaughnessy released his soothing, emotive ballad “Together”. The song’s video was also released late yesterday, with footage of a same sex couple dancing through the streets of Dublin. The former Britain’s Got Talent star O’Shaughnessy was internally selected by RTÉ for the contest, following in the …
The national broadcaster of Ireland, RTÉ, has decided to continue choosing their entry through an internal selection, despite failing to qualify with one for the last two years. Today they announced that it will be Ryan O’Shaughnessy’s task to make the Emerald Isle shine once more. [AdSense-B] In August last year, RTÉ went with a Eurovision Song Contest Forum, where the …
We know that the national final season can spring surprises and the rumour mill can often be inventive and colourful in the lead up to each contest, but one rumour seems to have some traction so far…and it’s one of the craziest yet! Johnny Rotten, real name John Lydon and former lead singer of the influential British punk band Sex …
[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 …
[AdSense-B] We reported yesterday evening that Per Sundnes had been replaced on the Norwegian jury after he had slammed the Irish entry in a Norwegian programme, with both countries set to compete and vote in the second semi-final. Now, the EBU has confirmed that four more juries have had a change in membership, although for what reasons remains unclear. The …
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 …
[AdSense-B] We ran a poll the other day for the last round of first rehearsals in Semi-Final 2, and we have a winner – Croatia was the most impressive rehearsal for our readers! With 31%, the busy performance topped the poll. Second place was shared equally between three rehearsals; Bulgaria‘s Kristian Kostov, Estonia‘s Koit Toome and Laura and Israel‘s Imri …
[AdSense-B] So what did we see on day three? Hot air balloons, big voices, glitter ball cannons and moons and walking on air. Just another day in the life at Eurovision! Of course, for those of you not in the press centre, we can only convey so much of the madness to you, alongside the other press, eurovision.tv and the …
We recently had a chance to meet Brendan Murray, who is going to represent Ireland at the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv, Ukraine this May. We talked to him about his entry “Dying To Try”and what it means to go to Ukraine for him. If he had to change a song title to describe his life, what what he …
This editorial is written from the opinion of the author and does not represent the views of the other editors, the EBU or escYOUnited as a whole. Eurovision has its “facts” when it comes to running order; there are death spots and there are places which make people go “ooo, they’ve got the perfect spot”. Surely success doesn’t depend that …
