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!”
Rehearsals Day 5 LIVE: Second Rehearsals, Semi 1 – Cyprus through Slovenia
Check out our live blog from the press centre and Day 5 of the rehearsals for the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest!
The view from Tel Aviv: The sum and the parts
Semi-final two, the *sensible* semi? Not when you’ve got bizarre staging choices and press centre hypes to deal with. Shi picks through the bones of the last two days in Tel Aviv!
Rehearsals Day 4 LIVE: Norway, The Netherlands, North Macedonia and Azerbaijan
Check out our live blog from the press centre and Day 4 of the rehearsals for the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest!
Rehearsals Day 4 LIVE: Croatia, Malta, Lithuania, Russia and Albania
Check out our live blog from the press centre and Day 4 of the rehearsals for the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest!
Rehearsals Day 3 LIVE: Austria and Sweden
Check out our live blog from the press centre and Day 3 of the rehearsals for the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest!
Rehearsals Day 3 LIVE: Moldova, Romania, and Denmark
Check out our live blog from the press centre and Day 3 of the rehearsals for the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest!
Rehearsals Day 3 LIVE: Armenia, Ireland, Latvia and Switzerland
Check out our live blog from the press centre and Day 3 of the rehearsals for the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest!
The view from Tel Aviv: Is it true? Is it over?
All of the first semi-finalists have now had their first rehearsals. Who’s underperforming? Who’s brought the right package right from day one? Shi takes a look!
Rehearsals Day 2 LIVE: Greece and San Marino
Check out our live blog from the press centre and Day 2 of the rehearsals for the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest!
Rehearsals Day 2 LIVE: Iceland, Estonia and Portugal
Check out our live blog from the press centre and Day 2 of the rehearsals for the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest!
Rehearsals Day 2 LIVE: Belgium, Georgia and Australia
Check out our live blog from the press centre and Day 2 of the rehearsals for the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest!
Rehearsals Day 1 LIVE: Belarus and Serbia
Check out our live blog from the press centre and Day 1 of the rehearsals for the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest!
Rehearsals Day 1 LIVE: Slovenia, Montenegro and Hungary
Check out our live blog from the press centre and Day 1 of the rehearsals for the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest!
Rehearsals Day 1 LIVE: Cyprus, Czech Republic, Finland and Poland
Check out our live blog from the press centre and Day 1 of the rehearsals for the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest!
Selam, selam, here we go again, on a journey to… well, you know
It’s been a long journey for Israel at ESC – and for Shi as an Israeli ESC fan. As the rehearsals begin and Tel Aviv beckons, she reflects on her own personal history with the contest and the steps that took her from there to here.
Back from Lisbon: Something had to win
Felix analyses the results of a year whose songs offered him very little personally. Was there really another feasible winner?
A German in Lisbon: Yeah Yeah, Inflammation
Felix sums up the last few days of his Lisbon experience – including an encounter with his 2018 fave at Euroclub – and looks ahead to the grand final.
Grand final: First rehearsal tweet blog
Felix was tweeting live from the arena during this afternoon’s first dress rehearsal of the grand final of ESC 2018. This post handily rounds up all his tweets in one place!
A German in Lisbon: The first results (and more)
The first semi-final, party (and not-so-party) nights and more Lisbon tourism in Felix’s latest round-up of Lisbon life.
Semi-final 1: Jury rehearsal tweet blog
Felix was tweeting live from the arena during tonight’s semi-final dress rehearsal, which will also form the basis for the juries’ votes. This post handily rounds up all his tweets in one place!
A German in Lisbon: The middle weekend
A Saturday at the Israeli party and a Sunday on the Blue Carpet are just some of the highlights in Felix’s latest Lisbon round-up!
A German in Lisbon: Russia, Moldova, Cable Car!
Over in Lisbon, Felix experiences seriously contrasting rehearsals from Russia and Moldova – and views the Altice Arena from a unique angle!
A German in Lisbon: Justice for Valentina!
San Marino! Other things happened to Felix in Lisbon today too. But mainly: San Marino!
A German in Lisbon: First impressions from the host city
As Felix decided to not spend all of his time cooped up in the arena, he went on a quick bus tour around Lisbon and collected some first impressions of the host city!
A German in Lisbon: The first full day
As anyone who ever lived in Cologne would say: "Et es wie et es, et kütt wie et kütt, un et hätt noch emmer joot jejange." That's Cologne dialect for "It's how it is, it will be like it is, and it has always worked out fine in the end." It's time for me to adopt this...
A quick update from the arena
Hello from Felix in the Altice Arena! It's this website's first full day in Lisbon, it's the first day of open rehearsals, and… well, let's just say things went a bit differently to how we imagined. So we're adapting to the situation and changing our plan to something...
Lisbon Day 4: The view from… Lisbon!
Felix casts his eye over the fourth day of rehearsals in concise form. Sometimes you don’t need many words.