SongHunt 2017 finalist presentation: “Statements” by Loreen
Loreen could be in Kyiv now, representing Sweden with her song “Statements”. But our SongHunt rules only allow songs that didn’t win their national finals, but got a lot of love in our Eurovision chat. This love took the song to the heats, the quarter-finals, the...
It’s nearly Eurovision. It’s always Eurovision.
As the 2017 final approaches, Martin’s thoughts turn to the ways in which we fans experience this whole Eurovision Song Contest thing.
SongHunt 2017 finalist presentation: “Se o tempo não falasse” by Inês Sousa
Inês Sousa could be in Kyiv now, representing Portugal with her song “Se o tempo não falasse”. But our SongHunt rules only allow songs that didn’t win their national finals, but got a lot of love in our Eurovision chat. This love took the song to the heats, the...
Reviewing semi-final 2: Felix’s top three thoughts
Last night saw the second of three shows at the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 in Kyiv. Ten more countries qualified, making Saturday's grand final line-up complete. But those are just the dry facts. Felix looks back on some of the other noteworthy moments from last...
A San Francisco semi 2 post mortem
Eurovision expectations are an interesting phenomenon that, more often than anything else in life, end up cast aside after reality proved them to be entirely wrong. For example, I expected the first semi to be much stronger than the second, and instead I could barely...
SongHunt 2017 finalist presentation: “As I Lay Me Down” by Wiktoria
Wiktoria could be in Kyiv now, representing Sweden with her song “As I Lay Me Down”. But our SongHunt rules only allow songs that didn’t win their national finals, but got a lot of love in our Eurovision chat. This love took the song to the heats, the quarter-finals,...
Ten more qualifiers for Saturday, final running order revealed
The second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 is over – and ten more songs have qualified, completing the line-up for Saturday’s grand final. The running order has now also been announced!
ESC 2017: These are the escgo! predictions for tonight’s semi-final 2!
The second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 is just a few hours away, and so it’s time for us in the escgo! team to predict the ten qualifiers for the grand final on Saturday.
Semi 2: Three bets to consider
Martin turns his gambler’s eye to the second semi-final of ESC 2017 and picks out some interesting bets that might be worth a look.
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Live Rehearsals Day 4 – Israel to Iceland
And that completes the first rehearsal session of this fourth day in Vienna! We're off for a late lunch now - the press centre canteen has promised us POLENTA - but we'll be back in good time for Sweden and co. in a fresh new post on this site later on. Stay tuned!...
Live Rehearsals Day 3 – Malta to Czech Republic
That brings our coverage of today's rehearsals to a close! Once you've checked out the official clips, do stop by and let us know the ones you thought were best and worst. We'll be gathering again tomorrow, when we get the first run-throughs of some of the biggest...
Live Rehearsals Day 3 – Lithuania to Montenegro
And that concludes the first session of today's rehearsals from the Stadthalle in Vienna! We'll be back with a separate rehearsal article for the performances from Malta through to the Czech Republic, which you can now read here! MONTENEGRO The prevailing visual theme...
Live Rehearsals Day 2 – Denmark to Georgia
And that completes our rehearsal blog from the second day in Vienna! If you think you've spotted the 10 qualifiers yet, come and let us know on social media or in our chat. In the meantime, see you tomorrow as the first rehearsals for the second semi-final begin!...
Live Rehearsals Day 2 – Serbia to Russia
This post is not live anymore - click here for the 2nd part of today's rehearsal blogging (Denmark, Albania, Romania, Georgia). And that's all for what I keep wanting to call the "morning" session of rehearsals, even though it's already mid-afternoon! There's a lunch...
Live Rehearsals Day 1 – Finland to Macedonia
And that completes our blog of the first day of rehearsals from the Stadthalle in Vienna! We'll be here bright and early for more coverage tomorrow - in the meantime, stay tuned to escgo, and look out for updates from around the host city in our liveblog on the...
Live Rehearsals Day 1 – Moldova to Netherlands
And that's all from the first set of rehearsals on this first day in Vienna. There's a short break now, then we resume later on with Finland - so stay tuned to escgo.com! NETHERLANDS The first laugh-out-loud moment in the press centre as the screens go active to show...
Line-up check 2015: United Kingdom
And finally the United Kingdom, as the last country in the alphabet, is also the last country for us to cover in this year's escgo line-up check series. Eurovision and the United Kingdom, that's a complicated relationship, as already pointed out in our article from a...
Line-up check 2015: Spain
There are some countries that once in a while stumble upon a formula that works for them, and then they stick to it. Take Spain’s last four entries for an example (and also an example of Eurovision inconsistency). Two top 10 results. Two bottom ones. One can only...
Line-up check 2015: Russia
In the 11 years since the semi-final system began, only four countries of this year’s participants have made it to every final, and who of those four (Greece, Russia, Romania and Azerbaijan) will be the last one standing is anybody’s guess. But there’s no doubt that...
Line-up check 2015: Sweden
Sweden is spoilt with an excellent result record. Five victories, 36 top 10 placements in total - that's more than half of the whole Eurovision history. There were three top 3 results in the past four years, but it also isn't very long since Sweden failed to qualify,...
Line-up check 2015: Switzerland
Eurovision songwriters just love a good "shine" metaphor. Maybe Katrina and the Waves are to blame, with their ultra-successful Love Shine A Light setting an unwelcome precedent back in 1997. Whatever the reason, four of the last six contests have featured an entry...
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Line-up check 2018: Germany
The escgo! team reviews “You Let Me Walk Alone” by Michael Schulte.
Line-up check 2018: France
The escgo! team reviews “Mercy” by Madame Monsieur.
Albania wins ChatVote 2018!
“Mall” by Eugent Bushpepa has won the 2018 edition of ChatVote, our long-standing annual vote to find our chatters’ favourite entry from the forthcoming Eurovision Song Contest!
SongHunt 2018 – Semi-Final 1
The SongHunt continues – and your votes are needed in our quest to find the best national final song of the season!
Line-up check 2018: Our views on the second semi-final
The escgo! team’s review series has now taken in all 18 participants in the second semi-final of the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest. Catch up on what we think here!
Line-up check 2018: Ukraine
The escgo! team reviews “Under The Ladder” by Mélovin.
Line-up check 2018: Slovenia
The escgo! team reviews “Hvala, ne” by Lea Sirk.
Line-up check 2018: Montenegro
The escgo! team reviews “Inje” by Vanja Radovanović.
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