2010 – 2014 under our old name “esc-chat.com”
escgo! at Eurovision
On-location: Oslo 2010 – Düsseldorf 2011 – Baku 2012 – Malmö 2013 – Copenhagen 2014 – Vienna 2015 – Lisbon 2018 – Tel Aviv 2019
Virtually: Stockholm 2016 – Kyiv 2017 – Rotterdam 2021 – Turin 2022 – Liverpool 2023 – Malmö 2024 – Basel 2025
2010 – 2014 as “esc-chat.com” | since 2015 as “escgo!”
Live Rehearsals – Day 3!
EuroClub Slagthuset calling! It's the third morning of rehearsals for the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest, the coffee is hot, the Latvian boys are glittery and things are about to get moving on stage and on screen, so let's see what Wednesday brings... LATVIA It says a...
Rain can’t ruin the Malmö mood on the third day
Martin (9.55) Not quite a bright and early start to the third day in Sweden's third city - managed to leave my accreditation in the apartment, and the sunshine has turned to rain with threatening grey clouds hovering over the Central Station and EuroClub. Things...
Live Rehearsals – Day 2!
Welcome back to Slagthuset, the home of EuroClub and, until the press centre opens on Friday, the location from which the gathered fan press is reporting on the first rehearsals for this year's Eurovision Song Contest. The viewing room is still in a cinema, but a much...
Fan Café opens as rehearsals continue on Day 2
Martin (8.30) It's Tuesday morning, the sun is shining (again!), and a few sore heads are being nursed following the opening of Euro Fan Café last night. While Euro Club has been a fixed element of the live ESC experience for many years, the Euro Café concept has...
EurovisionNews: Impressions from the Euroclub press facilities
6 May 2013 | 1st rehearsal day - friends and colleagues from other media talk about their first impressions of the Euroclub press facilities - Natália Kelly shares her impressions from the stage.
First Rehearsal Day in Euroclub
10:35 (Felix) We're in Euroclub and began blogging about the rehearsals in our rehearsals blog! This is the area were we can sit down at tables, and where the Meet & Greet will be held later: [singlepic id=255 w=500 float=none] And upstairs, people settled down in...
Live Rehearsals – Day 1!
A few teething problems on the first day of the Eurovision rehearsals - surely not?! Wireless access in the EuroClub is intermittent, with the support staff handing out temporary dongles to those afflicted by problems, and the viewing room for the rehearsals is a...
Blue skies as Accreditation Centre opens
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...
Arriving in Malmö
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...
Eurovision in Baku: Our Final Few Days
Hello again! Apologies for the delay in this post, we didn't have much time in Baku on the last few days to write an article as things were manic with blogging the first dress rehearsal of the final as well as various other things - Baku certainly came alive on the...
Eurovision in Baku: Our Wednesday and Thursday
Hello from Bakooo! We didn't manage to blog yesterday about Wednesday as we had a bit of a lie in on Thursday. Wednesday was spent in the Press Centre watching the first dress rehearsal of the second semi-final, which you can read again here. We then went to EuroClub...
First Dress Rehearsal FINAL – LIVE!
Hello all! Welcome to the LIVE blog of the first dress rehearsal of the GRAND FINAL! Stay tuned to this page for all the goss on what's happening in the Crystal Hall! Since I've already blogged the semis, I will only comment on changes or how I feel the song fits in...
1st Dress Rehearsal semi 2 – LIVE!
Hello and welcome to the press centre for the first dress rehearsal of the second semi-final for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest! The show begins at 15:00 CET, also join the chat for our Live-Chat, where we can comment directly from the press centre. 18:03 And we're...
Eurovision in Baku: Our Tuesday
Salam again dear readers from Baku, where we've managed to drag ourselves to the Press Centre for the EBU press conference this afternoon despite not getting back to the apartment until 7am - that's the perils of the show starting at midnight for you! We had a rather...
Eurovision in Baku: Our Monday
Yesterday saw the first 2 dress rehearsals of semi final one, and esc-chat.com were in the Press Centre blogging live for you! If you missed that, you can still catch the article here. Overall, despite a few technical hitches the rehearsal went well, and the stage...
1st Dress Rehearsal semi 1 – LIVE!
Hello and welcome to the press centre for the first dress rehearsal of the first semi-final for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest! The show begins at 15:00 CET, also join the chat for our Live-Chat, where we can comment directly from the press centre. 18:08 We're LIVE...
Eurovision in Baku: Our Sunday
We're now LIVE in the Press Centre waiting for the first dress rehearsal to start, but before we do, we'd better tell you about yesterday's goings on here in Baku! We arrived in the Press Centre yesterday in time to see the second dress rehearsals of the Big 5 plus...
Eurovision in Baku: Our Saturday
Salam! We've arrived in the Press Centre a little later than we'd planed (blame the free alcohol at the Welcome Party last night) but we are in time to see the Big 5 plus Azerbaijan do their second dress rehearsal. We're particuarly looking forward to seeing France...
Interview: Eva Boto speaks to esc-chat.com!
We were lucky to interview the absolutely lovely Eva Boto from Slovenia earlier this afternoon after her second rehearsal today, for the first EVER interview esc-chat.com have ever done! She has become a bit of a favourite of ours so we were really pleased to sit down...
Eurovision in Baku: Our Friday
Hello again peeps! Another day dawns in Baku and the Eurofun begins again. Friday was esc-chat.com's first proper day in Baku and we were up early to get to the press centre to catch some of the rehearsals! We managed to see the run throughs of quite a few songs, and...
Eurovision in Baku: Our Thursday
17:26 So as you have seen, I've finally arrived in sunny Baku! I landed yesterday at 3.30pm from Dubai on a flight where apart from an Australian girl who was also here for Eurovision, I was the only non Azeri on the flight! but didn't get to my accommodation until...
esc-chat.com have arrived in Azerjeben, Azerjabon…in Bakooo!!!
Salam! (That's Azeri for hello, btw) esc-chat .com have arrived in a rather warm Baku! After a rather eventful journey from the airport which took 4 hours (more on that later) I finally got to my accomodation. I was up bright and breezy(ish) this morning in time for...
A Night on the EuroBoat (with video)
Last Friday, the EuroBoat hosted hundreds of fans for the biggest event that everyone had access to (with ticket). It went off around 9 and returned a few hours later. Four live acts performed on the EuroBoat, the disco music was provided by popular DJ Ohrmeister....
Dress Rehearsal, May 13th – How I Saw It
Thanks to everyone who visited the chatroom for our LiveChat from the first dress rehearsal for tomorrow's Grand Final. It was a lively and well-attended affair, particularly for a Friday afternoon - although I suppose this isn't just any Friday afternoon! Providing a...
Düsseldorf – time is running out
Both the semi finals are over, the lineup for the final is complete. The year 2011 approaches its highlight with big steps, as in about 31 hours we know the winner! Düsseldorf has remained weird. The size of the city isn't a problem really, the bigger problem is that...
Video: Atmosphere in Düsseldorf before and after Semi 2
See crowds of fans line up for Paradise Oskar's meet & greet in Eurocafé, get to know which flags sell best and watch out for all the fans cheering for their countries before and after yesterday's semifinal! "The Day in 3 minutes" is a collage of impressions from...
Flags conquering Düsseldorf / predictions for semi 2
Before I'm talking about flags and predictions, a few words have to be said about yesterday's Euroclub. It was packed, and the DJ from Malta was a disgrace for the place, as he kept playing the same songs over and over again. Even more, he talked constantly...