In late 1997, while studying at Aston University in Birmingham, I was fortunate enough to be invited to attend the draw for the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest. Not quite the slick and sexy affair that the yearly allocation ceremony has now become, the event was instead...

This is the launch of SongHunt 2016! Let’s find the best song from the new national final season. In the previous weeks, we collected all of the chatroom scores for all of the national selection songs so far (Albania, Belarus, Belgium, Hungary, Malta) - with the...

We from escgo proudly announce the launch of SongHunt 2016: The first heat will be launched next Sunday, 31 January! Once again, it's time for us to find the best song of the national final season. Just a few weeks ago, "Nefelibata" from Latvia won the first prize in...

Today, host broadcaster SVT presented the visual design for the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest along with the slogan, the innuendo-laced "Come Together". Immediately afterwards, the allocation draw for the semi-finals was held at Stockholm City Hall. As in recent years,...

While the on-season for the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest began with several national finals taking place as early as November 2014, things have been slower to get going this year. The first entry for ESC 2016 was selected by Albania in their traditional Festivali i...

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On Sunday night, the 2015 edition of the escgo! Chat Awards were held in our #esc chatroom. This fun annual event attracted a healthy audience of chatters, all of whom got the opportunity to vote on the nominees in various categories as we honoured our favourites from...

SongHunt 2015, our poll marathon to find the best national final song of the year, has come to its end: "Nefelibata" by MNTHA, from the Latvian preselection Supernova, has won the grand final! In the deciding poll, we received a total of 141 votes. "A Monster Like Me"...

Malta won the 2015 edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, which was held at the Arena Armeec in Sofia, Bulgaria, on Saturday night. After a close neck-and-neck battle with Armenia, "Not My Soul" by 13-year-old Destiny Chukunyere took the prize, scoring an...

This week, many of our colleagues from other ESC fan sites are in Sofia, blogging intensively about the preparations for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest this Saturday night. Here at escgo!, we are not. In fact, we deliberately haven't listened to any of the songs...

The Chat Awards 2015 are launched - submit your nominations now! In the past two years, this relatively new annual event has already become one of the biggest traditions of our #esc chat. This is our chance to look back on the year gone by: What was the most...

Finland has had a tough time of it in the Eurovision Song Contest. The famous 2006 triumph of masked rockers Lordi tends to make people think the Finns are a more successful ESC nation than they actually are. In fact, other than a clutch of lower-top-10 results, the...