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09:55 (Felix) The first night in Malmö is over! My fellow editor Danny and I have been out for some drinks with friends and colleagues from other websites, and it became - at least for some of us - a quite short night. The place we've been to, you might want to mark...
14:09 (Felix) The first part of our esc-chat.com team has arrived in Malmö! My colleague Danny is on his way, Martin is joining us tomorrow. During my very short flight from Berlin (45 minutes), I considered leaving my luggage in a locker and going to Copenhagen...
For the 4th consecutive year, esc-chat.com is covering the Eurovision Song Contest on-site, and for the first time ever we can do this with our complete editor team! We are offering you news, blogging, rehearsal reviews, interviews and a lot more. Here’s the updating...
In the last episode of our introduction series, we're talking about the songs from Southern Europe (excluding the countries that we previously already covered in our Big 5 and ex-Yugoslavia articles). Looking back This is probably the most heterogenous constellation...
With some of us having only a few days left for packing and preparing for Malmö, we'd like to give you some touristy tips about what you could do if you want to escape from the press centre or your hotel room! You might want to see... ...in Malmö: Turning Torso...
After Oslo, Düsseldorf and Baku, we are now getting ready to cover the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö! For the first time, our on-location team will consist of more than one person: Martin, Felix and Danny will deliver you news, rehearsal liveblogs, photos,...
Norway has won the annual #esc ChatVote for 2013. Margaret Berger's "I Feed You My Love" took victory ahead of bookies' favourite Denmark and the surprise package of the competition, Hungary, whose "Kedvesem" finished third. Ireland and Ryan Dolan landed in last place...
Our line-up check series is nearing its conclusion, and this time it's the turn of the countries of the former USSR - with the exception of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, who came under the microscope as part of our "Eastern EU" article. Looking back With the eastern...
It's frustrating being a British fan of the Eurovision Song Contest. Whether you're staunchly patriotic or just want your country to be represented by something that isn't fundamentally embarrassing, it seems the United Kingdom and the BBC have found it difficult to...
The entries that will compete in our ChatVote 2013 final have been revealed! Semi 1 qualifiers: Croatia, Denmark, Ukraine, Netherlands, Montenegro, Belarus, Moldova, Ireland, Belgium and Serbia. Semi 2 qualifiers: San Marino, Azerbaijan, Finland, Malta, Iceland,...
Our line-up check series has already taken a look at the songs from the Big 5, the Nordic countries, the former Yugoslavia and the Eastern EU nations. This week, Martin turns his attention to a category we've called “pre-1970”: five countries that have been part of...
It's that time of year again! #esc and esc-chat.com proudly present an annual tradition: the ChatVote. In the run-up to every Eurovision Song Contest, the regular members of the #esc chatroom gather to vote and crown their favourite song from that year's contest. Last...
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