Alex Larke and Bianca Nicholas, better known to Eurovision fans as Electro Velvet, will represent the United Kingdom at the 2015 Song Contest with ‘Still In Love With You’. In another In-Depth Insight, Ewan Spence meets them ahead of the trip to Vienna to talk about their careers, the song, and finishing last.
The thoroughly good and thoroughly modest Jon Jacob is visiting Vienna for Eurovision. It will be his fourth trip to the contest. This year he’s breaking with tradition (a little). In the first of three posts for ESC Insight, he reflects on how he’s preparing for his week-long busman’s holiday.
Ben Robertson meets up with journalists as well as Eurovision artists past and present to look at the reasons behind Ukraine’s withdrawal from Eurovision as well as seeing what the future lies for one of Eurovision’s most successful modern nations.
Regular judge Ben Morris (Minipops) and debutant Richard Taylor (Eurovoix) join Ewan Spence for Juke Box Jury to rate Slovenia, Ireland, Macedonia, Italy, and The Netherlands.
Newsletter Editor Ben Robertson as always reviews the latest news and views from the world of Eurovision before giving us his weekly editoral in Robertson’s Reflection. This week he aims at the biggest Eurovision fan club OGAE arguing for a better electoral process for their new International board.
Sietse Bakker is the Eurovision Song Contest’s Event Supervisor, but his route to that role starts at the turn of the century. Ewan catches up with him to talk through that journey in the first in-depth Insight interview of 2015.