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.
In Part Two of the This Is Stockholm series Alison Wren has worked through her experience of years living in Stockholm to provide the best tourist tips for Sweden’s capital. There is far more to do here than an ABBA museum you know…
Ewan Spence chairs another Juke Box Jury as ESC Insight call Ben Morris and Matthew Ker to the bench to judge six more songs from Eurovision 2016. Hits, misses, or maybes, are going to Norway, Hungary, San Marino, France, Latvia, and Romania.
