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Read more“I can confirm that I love this scoreboard.” (MartinF)
"I can confirm that I love this scoreboard." (MartinF) As we often do, on Saturday night we ended up watching a few old national finals in our chatroom. One of them was Euroviisut 1986, the Finnish selection for that year's contest. And when MartinF caught sight of...
Line-up check 2021: Romania
The escgo! team reviews the Romanian entry, “Amnesia” by Roxen.
Line-up check 2021: Israel
The escgo! team turns its attention to “Set Me Free” by Eden Alene.
Insta Report Part 1: The five most popular Instagram accounts of this year’s contestants
Once again, we’ve checked out all 39 artists of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest on Instagram and picked some accounts that we thought are worth sharing! Today, we’re focusing on the five accounts with the most followers.
Line-up check 2021: Belgium
The escgo! team reviews “The Wrong Place” by Hooverphonic.
Line-up check 2021: Croatia
The escgo! team reviews “Tick-Tock” by Albina from Croatia.
10 years ago! We look back at some classics from the 2011 national finals
There was no SongHunt in 2011 yet – but if there had been, these are some of the songs we’d have been enjoying there. Join us in a little retrospective!
Line-up check 2021: Norway
The escgo! team reviews “Fallen Angel” by TIX, this year’s Norwegian entry.
ChatVote 2021 season is launched!
It’s the 17th edition of the annual live event in which our chatters pick their favourite song from the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest – here’s everything you need to know about the escgo! ChatVote.
Semi 1: Five bets to consider
With my escgo! colleagues having kept you informed and entertained over the last week (and a bit) with their analysis of the rehearsals and staging from this year's Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm, it's time for me to dive into my own area of - supposed -...
escgo! prediction 2016: Semi-final 1
Tonight sees the first semi-final of the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest, and it’s time for the escgo! team to predict which ten of the 18 candidates they think will progress to Saturday’s grand final. You can see the choices of Martin, Felix and Shi in the table below -...
Countdown to Semi 1: The View from San Francisco
The last 24 hours before any Eurovision night are always so difficult. The seconds slow down until they're standing still, and time definitely doesn't feel like thunder (oh oh). In these hours of need and struggle, I find the only thing I can do is come up with a...
Rehearsals 2016 – The View from San Francisco (Day 7)
Somehow a week has gone by, and the first round of rehearsals is now over, making way for Eurovision week! As a reward for overcoming the first week so bravely, this post is slightly less long than the others, and one cup of coffee might be enough to survive it. Don't...
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,...
Line-up check 2016: Second half of semi-final 2
In the fourth and penultimate part of our ESC 2016 line-up check series, it’s time for our editors – Felix, Martin and Shi – to give their views on the songs in the second half of the second semi-final! Just like in our first, second and third articles, each entry has...
Line-up check 2016: First half of semi-final 2
In the third part of our ESC 2016 line-up check series, it’s time for our editors – Felix, Martin and Shi – to give their views on the songs in the first half of the second semi-final! Just like in our first and second articles, each entry has been randomly assigned...
Line-up check 2016: Second half of semi-final 1
In the second part of our ESC 2016 line-up check series, it's time for our editors - Felix, Martin and Shi - to give their views on the songs in the second half of the first semi-final! Just like in our first article, each entry has been randomly assigned to one of...
Line-up check 2016: First half of semi-final 1
In the world of the Eurovision Song Contest, April is the month for analysis and anticipation. Now it's time for us here at escgo! to make our contribution with our annual line-up check series! This year we've tweaked the format slightly. Each entry has been randomly...
Editorial: escgo! after Vienna – looking to the future!
And yet another Eurovision Song Contest is over! It was the 6th consecutive year for us (formerly esc-chat.com, now escgo!) covering the contest in the respective host city. And Vienna was a good host! We were amazed by the friendliness of the staff and the locals,...
Vienna Blog – Part 7: Final Rehearsal and the Big Day!
As part of our live coverage from ESC 2015 by Felix and Martin, our website featured a rolling live blog throughout our time in Vienna, the content of which is reproduced below and in the other “Vienna Blog” posts! Friday 22 May, 15:29 As you can see, we are not...
Vienna Blog – Part 6: Time for the Second Semi-Final
As part of our live coverage from ESC 2015 by Felix and Martin, our website featured a rolling live blog throughout our time in Vienna, the content of which is reproduced below and in the other “Vienna Blog” posts! Wednesday 20 May, 14:55 We are live in the hall to...
Vienna Blog – Part 5: The Tuesday Night
As part of our live coverage from ESC 2015 by Felix and Martin, our website featured a rolling live blog throughout our time in Vienna, the content of which is reproduced below and in the other “Vienna Blog” posts! Tuesday 19 May, 20:35 We're live in the press centre...
Vienna Blog – Part 4: Red Carpet and a Departure
As part of our live coverage from ESC 2015 by Felix and Martin, our website featured a rolling live blog throughout our time in Vienna, the content of which is reproduced below and in the other “Vienna Blog” posts! Sunday 17 May, 17:57 We're at the Vienna City Hall,...
Vienna Blog – Part 3: Second Semi-Final Rehearsals and More
As part of our live coverage from ESC 2015 by Felix and Martin, our website featured a rolling live blog throughout our time in Vienna, the content of which is reproduced below and in the other “Vienna Blog” posts! Saturday 16 May, 10:13 What you see below is just one...
Vienna Blog – Part 2: First Semi-Final Rehearsals and More
As part of our live coverage from ESC 2015 by Felix and Martin, our website featured a rolling live blog throughout our time in Vienna, the content of which is reproduced below and in the other “Vienna Blog” posts! Friday 15 May, 10:43 We're in the hall for the first...
Vienna Blog – Part 1: The Arrival
As part of our live coverage from ESC 2015 by Felix and Martin, our website featured a rolling live blog throughout our time in Vienna, the content of which is reproduced below and in the other "Vienna Blog" posts! Sunday 10 May, 23:58 Vienna calling! MartinF...
“Heroes”: Sweden wins Eurovision Song Contest 2015 (updated)
(updated 25 May) Måns Zelmerlöw from Sweden has won the 60th Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Heroes", just three years after the country's most recent victory. The winner scored a total of 365 points, followed by Russia on 2nd place (303) and Italy (291). This...