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The View from San Francisco: The words are spilling out, what the heck is this about?
Shi is back with the first of her (re)views this year – see what she thinks about tonight’s first semi-finalists!
Eurovision and me – it’s complicated.
Felix kicks off the Eurovision week with some personal thoughts on his Eurovision journey.
ESC week on escgo!
It’s nearly time for the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest – here’s what to expect next week!
Teya & Salena from Austria win ChatVote 2023!
Congratulations to the winner of the 19th annual escgo! and #esc ChatVote – it’s Austria!
ChatVote 2023 is launched! One Night. One Winner.
Here’s how the 19th edition of our legendary annual event will work. For our chat regulars, the lines are now open for you to submit your votes!
“Evita” by Elsa Lila is the winner of SongHunt 2023!
And most robbed song of the 2023 national final season is….. Elsa Lila’s “Evita”! Find out what happened in the final of SongHunt 2023 right here.
Eurovision Song Contest 2023: The semi-final running orders are here!
Here’s how the countries will line up in semi 1 and 2 of ESC 2023 in Liverpool.
SongHunt 2023 – The Final
It’s the grand final of SongHunt 2023 – and YOUR votes will help us find the most robbed national final song of the season. Vote now, vote often!
SongHunt 2023 – Semi-final 4
The SongHunt continues! Semi-final 4 is open – it’s the last of our semi-finals, and YOUR votes will help to decide who qualifies. Get involved!
Rehearsals Day 7 LIVE: From Finland to Denmark
We’re live-blogging the second rehearsals of Finland, Latvia, Switzerland, and Denmark.
Rehearsals Day 7 LIVE: From Georgia to Bulgaria
We’re live-blogging the second rehearsals of Georgia, Albania, Portugal and Bulgaria.
The View from San Francisco: Story of My Life
In which Shi overthinks the principles of effective Eurovision storytelling through stagings.
Rehearsals Day 6 LIVE: The automatic finalists
We’re live-blogging the first rehearsals of Italy, Germany, Netherlands, France, United Kingdom and Spain.
Rehearsals Day 6 LIVE: From Austria to Serbia
We’re live-blogging the second rehearsals of Austria, Poland, Moldova, Iceland and Serbia.
Rehearsals Day 6 LIVE: Malta… and from San Marino to Greece
We’re live-blogging the second rehearsals of Malta, San Marino, Estonia, Czech Republic and Greece.
Read more“Eurovision starts with my birthday!” (Filipp Kirkorov)
"Eurovision starts with my birthday!" (Filipp Kirkorov) In the most recent Meet & Greet with Moldova, co-composer of "Sugar" and Eurovision legend Filipp Kirkorov talked about parties, and that he misses them at this year's Eurovision Song Contest. In this...
The View from San Francisco: Think about Things
The rehearsals of the first semi are (almost) done, which means it’s “will they, won’t they” time inside Shi’s brain! Scary times indeed.
Rehearsals Day 5 LIVE: From Israel to Ukraine
We’re live-blogging the second rehearsals of Israel, Romania, Azerbaijan and Ukraine.
Rehearsals Day 5 LIVE: From Cyprus to Belgium
We’re live-blogging the second rehearsals of Cyprus, Norway, Croatia and Belgium.
Rehearsals Day 5 LIVE: North Macedonia and Ireland
Martin jumps on board for his first rehersal liveblog this year – as we check out the second set of rehearsals from North Macedonia and Ireland!
Rehearsals Day 5 LIVE: From Lithuania to Sweden
We’re live-blogging the second rehearsals of Lithuania, Slovenia, Russia and Sweden.
The View from San Francisco: Where We Draw the Line
In which Shi realizes that we have now completed the entire first round of semi final rehearsals.
Felix sums up the fourth day of rehearsals, from Georgia to Denmark, in another edition of escgo!’s compact audio commentary.
Rehearsals Day 4 LIVE: From Finland to Denmark
We’re live-blogging the first rehearsals of Finland, Latvia, Switzerland and Denmark.
Read more“The flying dolphin is Yohanna” (Daði Freyr)
"The flying dolphin is Yohanna" (Daði Freyr) In yesterday's Meet & Greet, Daði og Gagnamagnið were asked about the Eurovision references in their performance. The flying dolphin, as we now learned, is indeed a reference to the dolphin in Iceland 2009's backdrop....
Rehearsals Day 4 LIVE: From Georgia to Bulgaria
We’re live-blogging the first rehearsals of Georgia, Albania, Portugal and Bulgaria.
The View from San Francisco: The Image of You
The third day of the 2021 rehearsals came and went, and with it the glorious display of the full possible range of approaches to Eurovision staging.
Felix sums up the third day of rehearsals, from San Marino to Serbia, in another edition of escgo!’s compact audio commentary.
Rehearsals Day 3 LIVE: Iceland and Serbia
We’re live-blogging the first rehearsals of Iceland and Serbia.
Rehearsals Day 3 LIVE: From Austria to Moldova
We’re live-blogging the first rehearsals of Austria, Poland and Moldova.
Rehearsals Day 3 LIVE: From San Marino to Greece
We’re live-blogging the first rehearsals of San Marino, Estonia, Czech Republic and Greece.
Read more“This is not how we dress, normally, in Norway.” (TIX)
"This is not how we dress, normally, in Norway." (TIX) In yesterday's Meet & Greet with TIX, the Norwegian singer explained the message about his staging (basically being restrained by one's demons and insecurities) - and eventually pointed out that people in...
The View from San Francisco: Beautiful Mess
The second day of rehearsals was a good reminder of some ground rules to have when following (and – sometimes – watching) the first rehearsals.
Felix sums up the second day of rehearsals in another edition of escgo!’s compact audio commentary.
Rehearsals Day 2 LIVE: Ukraine and Malta
We’re live-blogging the first rehearsals of Ukraine and Malta.
Rehearsals Day 2 LIVE: From Israel to Azerbaijan
We’re live-blogging the first rehearsals of Israel, Romania and Azerbaijan.