[LMBTO] My Eurovision Moments of 2018...
Laura RizzottoQuite a few of my moments have been linked to this lady in 2018, an incredibly passionate and impressive performance artist who personally grabbed my attention whilst her song grabbed my...
View Article[LMBTO] Teddy Johnson - a UK Eurovision pioneer leaves us...
Edward Victor "Teddy" JohnsonFor us UK Eurovision fans, the gentleman above (picture courtesy of Paul Jordan) would always be linked to our Contest history as being part of a duet with his wife Pearl...
View Article[LMBTO] Three Years of Eurovision: You Decide - What Next for the UK?
Jury SF1 - the closest I got to SuRie and one of the two run throughs for her where she was left to perform unmolested, although three of her diamond props weren't working that night. A portend of...
View Article[LMBTO] Here's Hoping For A More Exciting OGAE SCC in 2018...
So yet again we reach the final proceedings for the Eurovision year - the OGAE Second Chance Contest, something that I have been closely involved with since 2014 when Helena Paparizou took the title...
View Article[LMBTO] A Winner Any Year - My Eurovision Dead Certs...
If Kyiv 2017 had been a fortnight earlier, with the Final being on 29th April, the long held prophecy by so many fans and pundits who were 'worshipping at the altar of Gabbani' would have almost...
View Article[LMBTO] When I started this Eurovision blog, there was no five year plan...
1826 Days60 Months5 YearsNow even I didn't think I'd be writing a post to celebrate my blog's FIFTH anniversary when I posted that first article back on July 17th 2013! All that time ago, my short...
View Article[LMBTO] SuRie goes Eurovision Unplugged in Bristol...
It's not often that I go to a gig on a Sunday afternoon but this weekend was a special occasion - the 'Queen of pictorial social media' was in town! 65 days after her first intimate concert in London,...
View Article[LMBTO] All Cross Your Arms - X Factor Will Take Malta To Eurovision...
2016 - Depi Evratesil...2017 - HaKokhav HaBa...2018 - X Factor Malta!So it seems that my Eurovision viewing pre-Christmas will have travelled on from Armenia two years ago where Artsvik took the crown,...
View Article[LMBTO] EuroStarz 2018 - that's my live Eurovision gig in August sorted...
There is never much going on as far as Eurovision is concerned in the 'close season' between the day after the Eurovision Final and "Eurovision New Year" (September 1st), so when a concert with five...
View Article[LMBTO] "Let Me Be The One" hits Community and Eurovision airwaves...
Those of you who read EVERY SINGLE word of the articles that I post will have seen in my 5th Anniversary one that I had plans for this season. One of those will take me on the next step from being a...
View Article[LMBTO] "Let Me Be The One" Show 2 and the close season...
My view of Esther Hart at Amsterdam Calling earlier this year - a great host and one of the acts that will be at EuroStarz. She is one of the artists in show 2 - show 1 seemed to go down well with the...
View Article[LMBTO] "Let Me Be The One" Show 3 - Some Local Favourites...
Above is the lady that to date has been the most entertaining and charismatic Eurovision singer that I have seen live, the ball of energy that is Poli Genova. It was a lucky 'local pick' for me that...
View Article[LMBTO] Me, Paula Seling and Ovi at Eurostarz 2018...
Another Eurovision event, yet another opportunity to chat with Eurovision stars. Eurostarz 2018 was last Saturday, August 18th, and I got into gear early enough to be amongst the press pack that...
View Article[LMBTO] Me & Esther Hart at Eurostarz 2018...
Moving on from the bar at the Press Event at The Water Rats in London last weekend meant that I could have a sit down whilst I was interviewing my next guest...Esther HartI was really looking forward...
View Article[LMBTO] Me & Lindsay Dracass at Eurostarz 2018...
White tops were the order of the day at the Eurostarz Press Event - even David Mann from Eurovision Radio International was getting in on the act in the background of this nicely posed "end of...
View Article[LMBTO] "Let Me Be The One" Show 4 - P4 Nästa & Paula Seling & Ovi...
Of all the pictures that I took at Eurostarz, this was perhaps the one that told me the most about how Paula and Ovi interact - even though he has performed with her so many times before, he seems to...
View Article[LMBTO] Me & Scott Fitzgerald at Eurostarz 2018...
Three down, one to go - Scott Fitzgerald was the fourth and final artist that I interviewed at Eurostarz 2018 at The Water Rats on August 18th. By this stage, having more than ten minutes per guest...
View Article[LMBTO] Me, Linda, John and Everyone Else at Eurostarz 2018...
You've seen and heard me with these five Eurovision stars during the past few posts (spookily lining up in the order I interviewed them!):Paula Seling & OviEsther HartLindsay DracassScott...
View Article[LMBTO] "Let Me Be The One" Show 5 - Esther Hart plus a fitting tribute...
Thanks again to Jo for her amazing help being my photographer at Eurostarz in Concert 2018 - she got some superb pictures being right at the front at the gig! You all know that I think this lady is...
View Article[LMBTO] September 2018 - What does Eurovision 2019 already hold?
The Lovers Of ValdaroAbove or Below?Trick question actually - it is both! The group from Sweden that were picked by the P4 Nästa Jury to participate in Melodifestivalen as their wild card, 'The Lovers...
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