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Merry FiKmas Everyone!
Festivali i Kenges, Fest 63 (image RTSH)

Albanians worldwide are preparing to enjoy this year’s Festivali i Kenges. So is the Eurovision Song Contest community. Martin Bishop looks at one of Eurovision’s Christmas traditions.

Eurovision Chat Over Coffee, Basel 2025 Art Director Artur Deyneuve
Discussing Basel 2025 design and the Eurovision brand (photo EBO / SRR SRG)

Ewan Spence sits down with Artur Deyneuve to talk about the visual design of Basel 2025, the Swiss Grid, half tone images, why Helvetica is not the chosen font, and more, in the latest ESC Insight Chat Over Coffee podcast.

The Audacity Of United By Music
The stage for the 68th Eurovision Song Contest (photo: ESC.tv / Peppe Andersson)

Liverpool’s Eurovision Song Contest brought us “United By Music.” Following its success, the EBU adopted it as the Contest slogan into the future. Ahead of a potential secondary slogan from Basel, Erik Nelson thinks about the impact of our forever slogan.

A Guide To Your Internal Selection Announcement
Olly Alexander, UK 2024 (EBU / Corinne Cumming)

Let’s start on the dancefloor. My relationship with Strictly Come Dancing (the UK’s version of Dancing With The Stars) is temperamental at best. Dance isn’t my area of expertise; I can’t tell the difference between an American Smooth and a Tango even if my life depended upon it. Anyway, the final episodes of Strictly 2023 […]

ESC Insight Presents…..Eurovision Wars: The Malmö Boycott And The Irish Witch
Eurovision Wars S03E03, The Malmö boycott and the Irish witch (artwork: Phil Dore, Wikimedia, EBU)

Join Phil Doré and Ana Oppenheim as they explore the controversy and the politics that impacted Bambi Thug, Ireland, and all the artists at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2024, arguably the most controversial season in the Song Contest’s history.

Junior Eurovision, The Emotional Heart of the Song Contest
Let's bloom, Junior Eurovision 2024 artwork (EBU/RTVE)

Ewan Spence takes a moment ahead of Madrid 2024 to think about Junior Eurovision’s power and impact.

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