• Norway: final seven acts announced

    Updated: 2013-01-30 19:15:00
    Tonight in a live broadcast, NRK will reveal the seven acts that will take part in the third and final Semi-Final of Melodi Grand Prix 2013. We can reveal who they are.

  • Rob da Bank announces Bestival 2013 lineup - video

    Updated: 2013-01-30 19:00:00
    Watch our exclusive video announcement to find out who will be headlining Bestival's 10th birthday party

  • Have any British singers performed in prison, like Johnny Cash?

    Updated: 2013-01-30 16:15:00
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  • How it was: Eurovision party in Munich

    Updated: 2013-01-30 12:47:02
    Every year, the German Eurovision fan club OGAE organizes a fan convention that turns to a real Eurovision party. Last Saturday, more than 200 fans got together in Munich where they enjoyed life concert of former participants in the Eurovision Song Contest and danced to their favourite music. The special guests of that musical event were Ralph Siegel, Pasha Parfeny, Tom Dice, Friderika Bayer and Sandra Reemer.

  • Germany: National final jury introduced

    Updated: 2013-01-30 12:17:23
    Today, the five jurors in the German national final Unser Song für Malmö have been announced: Peter Urban, Roman Lob, Mary Roos, Anna Loos, and Tim Bendzko. They will be responsible for one third of the total scores.

  • It's Valentina Monetta again for San Marino

    Updated: 2013-01-30 10:15:00
    At a special press conference held this morning, SMTV has revealed that for the second successive year Valentina Monetta will be performing the San Marino entry in this year's Eurovision Song Contest. The song entitled Crisalide, or Chrysalis in the English version, will also be composed once again by Ralph Siegel, with Mauro Balestri this time providing the lyrics.

  • San Marino to announce artist today

    Updated: 2013-01-29 23:10:26
    This morning at 11:00 CET, the Sammarinese broadcaster SMTV will reveal at a press conference who will be representing them in Malmö in urope's Favourite TV how. ho will succeed last year's entrant Valentina Monetta and be flying the flag on behalf of the tiny country?

  • The Weekly Review - Edition 2

    Updated: 2013-01-29 14:57:18
    It's been another very busy week in the world of the Eurovision Song Contest and in this, the second edition of The Weekly Review, we look at national selection news engrossing the continent over the past seven days, including when Denmark chose its entry for Malmö, Amandine Bourgeois being hosen to represent rance nd so much more.

  • Serbia: 171 songs submitted for Beosong 2013

    Updated: 2013-01-29 08:24:24
    Serbian broadcaster RTS has revealed that a grand total of 171 entries were submitted for Beosong 2013, the competition in which Serbia's entry for the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest will be chosen.

  • Israel reveal details of Kdam 2013

    Updated: 2013-01-29 08:06:07
    Israel will hold three semi finals of ten songs each in Kdam 2013, according to details released by broadcaster IBA. The artists and song titles have now been made public.

  • Interview: a new side to Soluna Samay

    Updated: 2013-01-28 17:04:20
    It has been a year since Soluna Samay won Dansk Melodi Grand Prix with Should've Known Better in Aalborg and now she is back with a new style and a new song. We caught up with her ahead of her guest performance at this year's DMGP in Herning, where she performed her new song Humble.

  • Petra Mede to host Eurovision 2013

    Updated: 2013-01-28 10:24:27
    The long-awaited moment has come, it's time to reveal the host of this year's Eurovision Song Contest. The one to get the job is the Swedish comedian Petra Mede!

  • Carlsberg don’t do Eurovision draws but if they did…

    Updated: 2013-01-17 22:45:47
    Adrian Kavanagh, 17th January 2013 The draw for the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest semi finals took place today in Malmo in Sweden. In fairness, it’s hard to see how it could have gone much better for Ireland and what we got wasn’t too far off the dream draw outlined in yesterday’s post.  Semi Final allocation: Dream: [...]

  • Making audio on ielanguages.com iPad and tablet-friendly

    Updated: 2013-01-17 09:55:03
    I am currently updating the mp3 players on the many, many pages across ielanguages.com so that they will work on Apple products or any other tablets that do not support flash. Hopefully most browsers will be able to play the audio files from now on as I am using the HTML5 audio tag with both [...]

  • Analysis of the draw for 2013 Eurovision semi finals. What countries does Ireland want to be drawn with or avoid?

    Updated: 2013-01-16 13:51:43
    Adrian Kavanagh, 16th January 2013 The draw for the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest semi finals takes place tomorrow in Malmo in Sweden. After this draw, Ireland will know what semi final its act will be taking part in, the countries that will be competing against this act for one of the ten qualifier slots from [...]

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