Eurovision Song Contest

The Eurovison Song Contest was originally designed to build bridges between European nations based on the shared love of music..... These days it's a political battle where European nations, Israel, anyone who asks to join in and Andrew Lloyd Webber tactically vote to ensure that the music isn't considered but neighbouring countries all vote for each other and against any nation that has just looked at them funny. The winning country then pretends to look happy that they've won, all the while calculating whether or not they can afford to spend millions upon millions of pounds to stage the final the following year. In the past the UK has ...  Read the complete review

The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual contest held in May in Europe, its a song contest which every European country can enter, the show was first shown in 1956, it is most famous for bringing Abba to the notice of the unsuspecting world with their amazing song Waterloo. It is less well known for Daz Simpson's awful rap song which was a nadir in British participation and marked the moment we realised we should perhaps take it more seriously again. Eurovision has recently had a marked change, where it used to be an amateur competition countries now put in their best acts, last years winning entry for Russia was in fact written by Timbaland and this year an ...  Read the complete review

The Eurovision song contest is a contest held every year in europe and over 50 countries partake to try and win and bring glory to their country. It has been held for over 50 years, and this year it is held in Russia, after Russian Artist Dima Bilan won last year and brought it to Moscow. There are 2 semi finals where about 20 countries partake and the top 10 through voting will be selected to be in the final, held on the Saturday in Mid June. 5 Countries are automatically entered into the final: Germany, France, United Kingdom, Spain and the winner of the previous year which is Russia this year. At the end of the final, each country through pjhone ...  Read the complete review

It's that time of year again - the biggest musical extravaganza to be seen on television is almost upon us and some of us will spend this week familiarising ourselves with the 42 songs that will participate in a contest that stopped being about the song a long time ago. On Saturday 16th May, in Moscow, the 54th winning song will be declared, with Norway supposedly the red hot favourite to win. You can see why - it's sung by a cute 18 year old lad who was born in Belarus and features Irish style fiddles, just the sort of thing the voters seem to like - and one which covers all bases - Ireland, Scandinavia and the former USSR. The UK's entry will be ...  Read the complete review

This years song contest will be the 54th, taking place on the 16th May I know I've got my seat prepared, all set to watch it. Nobody, and I mean nobody is going to stop me from watching this great musically entertaining show. OK, so I may be going over the top a bit here, but seriously when it comes to laughing at other people, this is a great and most definetly acceptable way of doing it! Officially the last time the UK won the Eurovision Song Contest was in 1997, where Katrina and the Waves won it with the tuneful Love Shine a Light. I've actually done my research and I can safely say that with a staggering 227 points, I think we did rather well! Random ...  Read the complete review