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With Junior Eurovision and the National Finals set to fill our screens for the next few weekends, it’s time for Eurovision Again to settle back in the comfy chair of nostalgia… but not before one final trip into the past, and one final companion podcast,
Eurovision Insight Podcast: Eurovision Again 2004
A companion podcast to Eurovision Again’s trip to Istanbul 2004. Join us as we go over the rulebook, National Final gems, the State Of Pop, Abba’s last music video, a look back at Eurovision Again, and more.
Hosted by Ewan Spence, with Fin Ross Russell, and AJ Clay,
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“All good Things come to an End” – your looking back and some of the things Rob Holley wrote on his Twitter feed(not on Twitter, but you can still read some tweets and during EurovisionAgain was reading tweets from people), suggest that EurovisonAgain in its current setting,will not come back anymore. It may come back in a different format but it won’t be operated by the same team.
In the last 2 broadcasts, I had a feeling that the energy was no longer there(In the final broadcast the team didn’t wait until voting was over and have published the twitter voting half through the actual voting) . In retrospect I think that broadcasting the 2012 and 2004 contests was more due to the fact that older contests weren’t available. It was also caving a bit to some vocal fans who wanted to watch these 2 contests.
I would have loved if the final broadcast would have been of an older contest, but sometimes you have to play with the cards your are given.
It was fun watching old contests with other fans. Sharing an experience for the contest we love.
The highlights for me were the contest from 1968 and 1969, contests I never saw from a periode I never knew about the Eurovision Song Contest( I was 4 and 5 years old during those contests and lived in a country who joined the contest only in 1973).
Thank you for the team behind #EurovisionAgain for a job well done. Somehow the old contests made new and delightful memories