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Eurovision 1988: Celine Dion wins. Ugh.

2009-11-06T08:43:37Z

A few years back, Bruce Forsyth appeared on Room 101, the BBC show where celebs can put the case forward for consigning their least favourite things to history. The very last thing he wanted to put into the dank...

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Eurovision 2010: Titbits and Tittle-Tattle

2009-11-05T14:24:16Z

THERE has been a few announcements this week from various corners of the continent regarding preparations for next year's Contest in Oslo. The first is the unfortunate news that Leichtenstein definitely won't be making its debut in Norway. Those...

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The five hoarse men of the Arockalypse

2009-11-03T10:12:28Z

Lordi - The Arockalypse (Finland, 2006) Ewan Spence continues to look at the discography and music of Eurovision entrants before and after they've appeared on the world's biggest television show. Eurovision fans breathed a sigh of relief as Alexander...

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And the winner of the European Minority Song Contest is...

2009-11-02T16:59:30Z

...Finland! The group SomBy which performs in Sami won the jury vote during the Liet-Lavlut contest held in the Netherlands on Saturday night. Here's a brief report on how the competition climaxed with a taster of some of the performances....

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Eurovision 1987: Johnny does it again, the UK has its worst showing of the 20th Century, someone from Milli Vanilli might have performed for Germany and Plastic Bertrand sings for Luxembourg

2009-10-31T16:07:01Z

That looks suspiciously like the rocket from Tintin's Destination Moon... The home of the European Parliament finally became the home of the Eurovision Song Contest, the event had enjoyed 31 previous editions before it reached Belgium and the organisers...

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European Minority Song Contest 2009

2009-10-30T09:03:37Z

Many thanks to our business reporter and fellow blogger Alistair Houghton for passing this little gem on to Boom Bang a Blog - there's another European Song Contest taking place this weekend, celebrating the mother tongues you don't hear...

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Eurovision 2010: John & Edward for Ireland?

2009-10-29T21:20:27Z

It was confirmed today that, despite its monetary problems, Ireland will definitely be entering Eurovision 2010 in Oslo, although no news yet on how they'll be choosing a song. The bookies are already having a go at predicting who...

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Eurovision 2010: Changes to the voting process

2009-10-27T22:58:20Z

Boom Bang a Bloggers, I bring exciting - and perhaps controversial - news. It has been decided that, for next year's Eurovision in Oslo, a new way of casting viewers' votes will be introduced. Basically, instead of waiting until...

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Eurovision 1986: Another maiden win for the old school, Iceland makes its debut and Sweden sends the most cringeworthy song ever written

2009-10-23T07:30:55Z

Although Norway's victory in 1985 caused ripples of excitement over the spiritual home of no-points and the hosting of the 1986 Contest was a source of huge national pride, broadcaster NRK made the unusual move of not staging the...

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Eurovision 2010: Hungary withdraws

2009-10-22T16:35:09Z

Sad news to bring you this drizzly October afternoon, but the Hungarians will not be present in Oslo in 2010. And, quelle surprise, it's all about the money. According to reports, MTV (that's Magyar Television, not the music one),...

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Songs from an Icelandic Soul

2009-10-21T09:00:00Z

It's now been five months since my Eurovision adventure to Moscow and the insane chaos of wall to wall coverage that I threw out, not least the near constant Twitter stream from backstage and during the live shows. Just...

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The continuing adventures of our guest blogger Ewan Spence

2009-10-20T19:11:46Z

Tomorrow sees the first instalment of guest blogger Ewan Spence's Eurovision Long Player - looking at other material released by Eurovision contestants beyond their entry into the competition itself. Before that hits the interweb, you may be interested in...

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Eurovision in America: Boom Bang a Blog was right all along!

2009-10-20T15:27:33Z

According to this report, a major celebration of everyone's favourite European composition competition is taking place in Washington DC on Saturday night. See! We told you everyone in America can't get enough of the Contest. Organised by the Swedish Embassy,...

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Eurovision 2010: Bulgaria confirms the first official entrant for Oslo

2009-10-19T16:12:18Z

Miroslav Kostandinov, otherwise known as Miro, has been announced as the first entrant who will definitely be packing their bags for Oslo next May. The Bulgarian vocalist will represent his homeland at either the first or second semifinal in the...

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Eurovision 1985: When Europe voted for a pair of swingers and a vibrating bra, Germany had Wind and the hostess stripped live on air

2009-10-16T08:16:11Z

They had waited for a win since their first appearance in 1960. They had scored nul points in 1963, 1978 and 1981, three of the six occasions they had finished bottom of the scoreboard. They were destined to be...

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