Eurovision Song Contest

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...