It’s Eurovision Song Contest time again folks! Let loose the glitter bombs of fabulous music now! So, in the seven weeks leading up to the grand final on Saturday 23 May 2015, I will be profiling the acts and reviewing the songs of 5-6 countries each week, giving my unvarnished, unguarded and Continue Reading
The Eurovision Song Contest
The road to Eurovision 2015: Semi-final 1 (part 1) – Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia. F.Y.R. Macedonia, Finland
It’s Eurovision Song Contest time again folks! Let loose the glitter bombs of fabulous music now! So, in the seven weeks leading up to the grand final on Saturday 23 May 2015, I will be profiling the acts and reviewing the songs of 5-6 countries each week, giving my unvarnished, unguarded and Continue Reading
The history book on the shelf: 40 years since ABBA’s historic Eurovision win
When ABBA, Sweden’s youthful and highly unorthodox entry for 1974’s the Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton, England, walked on stage in all their extraordinarily tight glam pop glory, it was clear that the staid world of Europe’s post World War Two musical experiment in good neighbourliness, was in for Continue Reading