Iceland have never won Eurovision, but this year they might stand out from the crowd. Over the weekend they picked anti-capitalist, BDSM loving, techno band Hatari to be their representative in the 2019 competition. The techno punk band from Reykjavik beat five other performers in a local competition to gain the honour. The group formed […]
Three more acts and five more songs have been added into SBS’s Australia Decides Eurovision contest. For the first time Australia will be doing what many countries do, getting a say in who represents us at Eurovision. Hosted on the Gold Coast and broadcast live and exclusively on SBS on Saturday 9 February, Eurovision – Australia Decides […]
SBS have announced that for next year’s Eurovision Song Contest the public will get to decide who gets to represent Australia at the international song showdown. The broadcaster will team up with production partners Blink TV, to host a national contest Eurovision – Australia Decides to select the artist and song to represent the country […]
Last month Conchita Wurst came out as HIV positive via social media. Conchita is the stage name for the Austrian singer and performance artist Thomas Neuwirth, who won the Eurovision song contest in 2014 as Conchita for her song Rise Like a Phoenix. In her statement, Conchita wrote, “I have been HIV-positive for several years. […]
Eurovision had it’s grand final in the early hours of Sunday morning and crowned a new winner of the popular song competition. The show aired live on SBS and will be repeated on Sunday evening. While Australia’s Jessica Mauboy delivered a strong performance, with the crowd singing along to her tune We Got Love, when the […]
Audience’s in China won’t be seeing this year’s Eurovision final after the local broadcaster censored parts of the semi-finals broadcast. Eurovision has strict rules for broadcasters and one of the big ones is you can’t censor out parts of the performances. When the first Semi-Final aired in China the local broadcaster took out the performance […]
Jessica Mauboy has taken to the Eurovision stage and performed her song We Got Love. While the first televised appearance of Jessica performing the song will be at the second semi-final on Friday morning, by the time she she steps out on stage she’ll have already delivered the song to a Eurovision audience several times. OUTinPerth […]
Ireland have qualified for the Eurovision final for the first time in five years with audiences loving Ryan O’Shaughnessy’s perfomance of ‘Together’. Just like in the video for the song, his live performance included two boys doing an interpretive dance depiction of a gay couple breaking up. Ireland was one of ten countries to make it […]
Lys Assia, the very first winner of the Eurovision song content has passed away aged 96. Assia won the inaugural Eurovision which was held in Lugano, Switzerland back in 1956. The competition was called Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson when it first began and the first year just seven countries took part, with each singer […]
Eurovision is fast approaching, and this year Finland is being represented by singer Saara Aalto. Aalto is well known to British audiences through her appearance on the TV show X-Factor, but she’ll be representing her homeland Finland at the singing competition in Portugal. The singer just announced she’s now identifying as a lesbian, (but never saying […]
