Our audio format “Three Minutes to Talk!” is going into its second round. What random Eurovision-related topic will Martin give Felix to talk about this time? The challenge is simple: To talk about it for three minutes – completely unprepared!
Line-up check 2021: Portugal
The escgo! team reviews this year’s Portuguese entry, “Love Is On My Side” by The Black Mamba.
Line-up check 2021: Albania
The escgo! team reviews “Karma” by Anxhela Peristeri, the Albanian entry for ESC 2021.
“Russian Woman” by Manizha wins ChatVote 2021!
Our chat community has decided: Russia has the best song in the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest!
Chat Story
Felix suddenly realised that we’ve never really blogged about our legendary chatroom before. Time to fix that!
Line-up check 2021: Georgia
The escgo! team reviews “You” by Tornike Kipiani.
Line-up check 2021: Serbia
The escgo! team reviews the Serbian entry for ESC 2021, “Loco Loco” by Hurricane.
We’re excited to launch our first audio format on escgo! In “Three Minutes to Talk”, the challenge is a simple one: Talk about a random Eurovision-related topic for three minutes – completely unprepared! In this first episode, it’s Martin who’s setting Felix something to talk about. But what topic? Hear for yourself!
Line-up check 2021: Iceland
The escgo! team turns its attention to “10 Years” by Daði & Gagnamagnið.
Line-up check 2021: Moldova
The escgo! team reviews “Sugar” by Natalia Gordienko, the latest entry in our 2021 Eurovision review series!
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Introducing the SongHunt 2021 finalists!
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Line-up check 2021: Slovenia
The escgo! team reviews “Amen” by Ana Soklič.
Line-up check 2021: Lithuania
The escgo! team begins its reviews of semi-final 1 with Lithuania and “Discoteque” by The Roop.
Line-up check 2021: United Kingdom
The escgo! team completes its review of the automatic finalists by turning its attention to “Embers” by James Newman.
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Line-up check 2021: Spain
The escgo! team reviews “Voy a quedarme” by Blas Cantó.
Line-up check 2021: Italy
The escgo! team reviews “Zitti e buoni” by Måneskin.
Line-up check 2021: Our views on the automatic finalists
The Eurovision 2021 line-up check begins! Our team of editors reviews the entries from the Netherlands and the “Big Five”.
Line-up check 2021: Germany
Does the escgo! team feel love for Jendrik’s “I Don’t Feel Hate”?
Line-up check 2021: France
Martin reviews “Voilà” by Barbara Pravi and Felix and Shi respond!
Line-up check 2021: Netherlands
Kicking off our 2021 line-up check, the escgo! team reviews “Birth Of A New Age” by Jeangu Macrooy.
ESC 2021: The semi-final running orders are revealed!
From The Roop through to Fyr & Flamme, here’s how the two semi-finals will line up in Rotterdam.
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Rehearsals Day 6 LIVE: From Austria to Serbia
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Super Saturday entertains us with entries from Finland, Norway and Spain
After six hours of national final action, the ESC 2021 line-up now includes a nu-metal banger from Finland – and *not* the big fan favourite from Norway…
It’s time for SongHunt 2021!
The annual quest to find the most robbed national final song of the 2021 season begins – this year’s SongHunt is on the way!
Albina gets the Croatian ticket to ESC 2021
We have a winner in Dora, one of our chat’s favourite national finals of the season!
The Roop’s living a celebration – and Go_A bring the noise
Lithuania and Ukraine have entries for ESC 2021, and the EBU announces that the scenarios for the contest in Rotterdam have narrowed further.
France and Israel select – and news about SongHunt 2021!
Barbara Pravi will represent France, Eden Alene has a new song for Israel… and the SongHunt fun for 2021 will begin soon. It’s all happening!
2021 begins here, with an Albanian winner: It’s Anxhela Peristeri
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