So, what do we make of the Thursday show? To be honest it was a bit bland. The songs that we expected to go through did go through and the failures decided it would be a good night to fail. The main “shock” or at least the headlines will be the loss of Dana International, […]

Forget your ISDN lines, forget commentators using their mobiles to call back to studios to tell them what is happening, you need the alternative commentary track from Ewan Spence and the team at ESC Insight to get you through tonight’s semi-final. Download the track, and feel your heart beat!

Ewan Spence previews the second semi-final with the latest Eurovision News from Dusseldorf with Emma Backfish (ESC Daily), Roy Delaney (Heat), Samantha Ross (ESC Insider) and Jon Stanton (Eurovisionary).

ISDN lines, fan meets, surprise Blue appearances, how gay is Eurovision, and the Swiss selection process for 2012 in tonight’s link-up of the Song Contest web sites.

Ewan Spence discusses the latest Eurovision News from Dusseldorf with Karen Fricker (Eurovision Research Network), Paul Jordan (ESC Insight) Andrew Main (All Kinds of Everything) and Toni Sant (Eurovision Malta).

ESC Insight photographer Steven Newby headed out to meet Blue yesterday for a short interview – which then proceeded to become a lunch that’s going to be a treasured memory for Steven for a long time. Here’s why, in his own words…