Rehearsals 2016 – The View from San Francisco (Day 6)
It's been an exhausting day for Eurovision fans everywhere. Three first rehearsals of the remaining direct finalists plus 18 second rehearsals of semi final 2 meant an entire day of working really hard refreshing blogs, social media feeds, message boards and YouTube...
Rehearsals 2016 – The View from San Francisco (Day 5)
The first of two insanely long days of rehearsals took place in Stockholm today, with France and Spain getting their first rehearsal in and all the first semi finalists rehearsing again. Not blogging this in real time, I am allowing myself the freedom of reversing the...
Semi-final 2: The colour analysis
Summary: https://youtu.be/lxONpx3cQ5c In detail: Eurovision stages once were used to give the entries an individual setup. Especially after colour television was invented. This stage doesn't, because obviously, SVT wants to play the gods of fairness and forces every...
Rehearsals 2016 – The View from San Francisco (Day 4)
Before I start with the last full day of the first rehearsals, I would like to send TVR my gratitude for not only being late with paying their debt, but also being so late not paying it that the rehearsal schedule could not be changed anymore, which meant I only had...
Rehearsals 2016 – The View from San Francisco (Day 3)
In which I realize I still haven’t deleted Romania from my 2016 playlists, which is weird considering I don’t even like it. Today, I get to tackle the first rehearsals of half of our second semi finalists, and seeing how long my previous posts were, I decided to also...
Semi-final 1 – The colour analysis
Tell me black or white, what colour is your Eurovision song? The Eurovision Song Contest has been aired in colour since 1968, and 1971 was the first time it was possible to choose a different stage colour for the entries in a more or less technologically advanced way....
Rehearsals 2016 – The View from San Francisco (Day 2)
Yesterday I began reviewing this year’s rehearsals, and much like the real-life first rehearsals, I found the first round to be very educational. For example, I learned that Europe has many Republics, that I really can’t come up with proper adjectives to describe San...
Rehearsals 2016 – The View from San Francisco (Day 1)
It’s been a good decade since I last attended Eurovision rehearsals, and that decade, apart from making me older than I'd like to admit, also taught me a few things about obsessing about - analyzing, I mean analyzing - rehearsals from a distance. Don't get me wrong:...
ESC 2016: We’re live… at home!
You might have heard it on our social media already, but the escgo! team will not be live in Stockholm for this year's Eurovision Song Contest. Since 2010, we have covered the competition directly from the host cities and the heart of the press centre, but personal...
Line-up check 2016: The automatic finalists
It's the final part of the escgo! line-up check for 2016, which means it's time for our editors, Felix, Martin and Shi, to turn their attention to the countries that are automatically qualified for the grand final of ESC 2016: the "big five" and the host country,...
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Final week starts in sunny Malmö
10:59 (Felix) Good morning from sunny Malmö! Whereas last week was quite exhausting, with a lot of stuff to work on, the final week has arrived - and we all know that it's the more relaxed one during the day, and the more party-loaded one in the nights! Speaking of...
Interview: Cascada (video)
Live Rehearsals – Day 7!
Good morning everybody! It's the last day of the first week of rehearsals for the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest, and having seen all 33 of the semi-finalists put through their paces over the last six days, it's finally time for the "big 5" - Spain, France, Germany, the...
Sunday: Party hangovers and “big five” rehearsals
Martin (9:40) Last night, EuroClub played host to the Belarusian party, and I think it's fair to say that there are a few sore and regretful heads around the press centre this morning. It was in many ways the first "real" party of the ESC fortnight, with all due...
Live Rehearsals – Day 6!
Hello! We're back in the Press Centre for the second day ready for the second rehearsals of the second semi-final. Myself (Danny) and Martin will be taking turns during the day to give our esteemed opinions on the performances with me taking the first part, while...
Middle weekend in Malmö gets underway
Martin (11:10) Morning all! It's the middle weekend of the Eurovision fortnight, and as is traditional, things are starting to hot up all over the city. More and more fans - especially those who are "just" coming for the shows, rather than sitting in a daylight-free...
Live Rehearsals – Day 5!
SLOVENIA First to take the stage with their second rehearsal is Hannah from Slovenia who has swapped with Austria. There's a few technical issues with the video and sound links - the feed is coming on the main screen but there's no sound, and but there are smaller...
Opening day of the press centre
Danny (11.15) And a very good morning to you all! The sun may not be shining as much here today in Malmö as it has been the past few days, but you can definitely tell that Eurovision fever is rising more and more as we get ever closer to the big event! Today saw the...
Impressions from rehearsal days 3 and 4
9 May 2013 | We asked some friends and colleagues about their opinions on yesterday’s and today's rehearsals, and also show some impressions from the Meet & Greets with the 2013 Eurovision artists.
Collective Headache Day
FelixK (10:28) It's a holi-holiday, and we all have a headache. Last night's party at Euroclub was quite... different. Judged by friends' comments about their own state of wellbeing (or not), it might have been a buzzing, heavy party, but was it? Euroclub 2013 is...
Live Rehearsals – Day 4!
There are some sore heads around the press area on our fourth and final day here in the EuroClub cinema, with the party having gone on rather late last night. It's quite strange coming to "work" in a place where one was dancing to "Bombo" just a few hours previously....
Interview: PeR (Video)
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ZiBBZ to EZC 2018 for ZwitZerLand!
OK, so we may have taken a few liberties with the spelling in our headline. But it's true that Switzerland will be represented at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest by the duo ZiBBZ. The siblings (ZiBBlingZ... get it?), originally from Zurich but now based in Los...
SongHunt 2018 – Heat 2
The SongHunt continues – and your votes are needed in our quest to find the best national final song of the season!
Christabelle to represent Malta at ESC 2018
The televoters and the jury agreed: “Taboo” by Christabelle will represent Malta at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest!
Spain and Czech Republic give us a night of contrasts
The number of known entries for the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest doubled yesterday as Spain and the Czech Republic selected their candidates for Lisbon - and the results could not have been more contrasting. In a special ESC edition of the current season of casting...
The allocation draw for ESC 2018
The allocation draw for the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest has taken place. As in recent years, the countries had previously been divided into "pots" based on their voting history with the aim of ensuring a balanced spread across the two semi-finals. To allow the...
SongHunt 2018 – Heat 1
The SongHunt begins – and your votes are needed in our quest to find the best national final song of the season!
France has chosen – but will it be a ‘Merci’ or a ‘Monsieur’?
France has selected its entry for the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest. At the culmination of the three-week Destination Eurovision selection process, "Mercy" by the duo Madame Monsieur proved to be the clear favourite of the televoting public while also attracting enough...
UK finalists reviewed: Another step in the right direction
The BBC have released the UK finalists for the 2018 contest – time for Martin, the British member of the escgo! team, to cast his eye over the six candidates.
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