Albania traditionally open the national final season with their extremely long running song festival, Festivali i Këngës, modelled on Italy’s Sanremo, and similarly used as the selection method for their … Continue reading Albania national final preview – Festivali i Këngës 59
It’s an annual tradition now for me to create this page where I summarise all the details of various national selections for the coming Eurovision Song Contest. It all proved … Continue reading National selections Eurovision 2021
The news that the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest is cancelled is no longer new (and nor was it unexpected when the news came), but it’s taken me a little while … Continue reading Eurovision 2020 is cancelled: what next?
With the end of the national final season, it’s become something of a tradition for me to look back over what might have been — those songs that I took … Continue reading My favourite songs from the 2020 national selection season (that didn’t win)
At two opposite corners of Europe, we have the national finals of two one-time winners of Eurovision. Finland and Portugal may be far apart geographically, but they share similar experiences … Continue reading Eurovision 2020 national selections: Finland and Portugal previews
The national selection season finishes with a flourish with four national finals taking place on Saturday 7 March, including three Nordic countries. Sweden is well known as the biggest national … Continue reading Eurovision 2020 national selections: Sweden and Denmark previews
The third and final of my previews for this very busy national selection weekend sees us swing back to the south east of Europe with national selections of Romania and … Continue reading Eurovision 2020 national selections: Romania, Serbia and Israel previews
This is the preview of the Nordic swing of the weekend’s cluster of national selections. Iceland and Estonia both have long established national finals and are taking place on the … Continue reading Eurovision 2020 national selections: Estonia and Iceland previews
We’re into the two bumper weekends of national finals and internal selection releases; too much in fact to put into a single post! So I’m writing not one, not two, … Continue reading Eurovision 2020 national selections: Belarus, Moldova and Croatia previews
It’s a slightly less frenetic weekend in the national selection season, before we get two super busy weekends. There is still plenty to see though, with three national finals over … Continue reading Eurovision 2020 national selections: Ukraine, Slovenia and Poland previews
It’s another February weekend which means it’s another brace of national finals (as well as several semi-finals). We’ve also got couple of song reveals as well with Tom Leeb’s song … Continue reading Eurovision 2020 national selections: Armenia, Lithuania and Norway previews
This is my first proper preview of the national selection season for Eurovision 2020, and it’s a Super Saturday on 8 February with 2 national finals in Australia and Latvia, … Continue reading Eurovision 2020 national selections: Australia, Latvia, Italy and Malta previews