Juke Box Jury continues as Ewan Spence welcomes Andrew Main and Ross Middleton to the fifth round of hits, misses, and maybes. This week’s six come from Greece, the United Kingdom, Moldova, the Czech Republic, Italy, and Serbia.
The rise of online betting and trading sites in the last decade has seen betting at the Eurovision Song Contest become a legitimate angle for analysis and profit. The wallet behind ESCtips, Gavin Lambert, takes us on an adventure that is genuinely against the odds.
Rehearsals are ongoing, PRs are generating stories, and Shakira is lined up for Belarus – what a curious seven days it has been for the Eurovision Song Contest. Ewan Spence brings you the latest Insight Podcast, with music from Lotta Engberg.
The Eurovision Song Contest is as much about the presentation as it is the music. Every Song A Story is ESC Insight’s collection of video essays exploring the visual world of the Song Contest. In this episode, Ewan Spence explores the impact of the music video on the Contest.
In this week’s ESC Insight Newsletter we review the happenings from the first two preview events of the year in Riga and Moscow before journeying across the best news and not-news from another week in the Eurovision bubble. As usual the Newsletter is joined by the column Robertson’s Reflection, where editor Ben Robertson gives his […]
You all know that Melodifestivalen is a big deal. Yet in hosting the Eurovision Song Contest this year Swedish broadcaster SVT chose the far smaller Globe Arena. ESC Insight’s Ben Robertson attended the final of Melodifestivalen and tried to work out why this top category stadium is not hosting the Song Contest in 2016.
