Do you know your Moldovas from your Montenegros? Your drams from your manats? Or even your Tiranas from your Tallinns? Of course you do, because you had the greatest Geography teacher in the world. Not Ellie Chalkley, but the Eurovision Song Contest.
All the artists are rehearsing. All the PR teams are coming up with exciting angles about rehearsing. And everyone else is reviewing 43 songs. It’s been an eventful – but not that busy – seven days in the world of the Eurovision Song Contest.
We can finally listen to all forty-three Eurovision songs, and we hoover up the best Eurovision news and tidbits from around the internet in this week’s Newsletter. Robertson’s Reflection looks at the San Marino change to a disco version, which might be an accidental smart decision…
In the second of our Head of Delegation interviews, we speak to Jan Bors from the Czech Republic about learning from failure, creating a credible Eurovision package and why the Czech public’s perception of the Eurovision Song Contest is finally starting to change…
In our first Travel Guide of the 2016 season, Stockholm resident Alison Wren is taking us on whirlwind explanation of how to get around Sweden’s capital city.
A special Juke Box Jury episode, coming from the SXSW Music Festival. Ewan Spence is joined by music journalist Talia Kraines, and DJ Dan Hudson to judge Azerbaijan, Estonia, Spain, Montenegro, and Poland.
