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[LMBTO] Terry Wogan and Eurovision...
Given how busy Eurovision will be getting soon, I thought that my next blog post would be about the Spanish National Final, Objetivo Eurovisión, who would be going to Stockholm and my thoughts on their...
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[LMBTO] The first Direct Eurovision Finalist is chosen - Spain decides...
It's not the Spanish version of 'Friends', these were the six hopefuls that competed for the prize of representing Spain at this year's ESC and becoming this year's first Finalist in Stockholm. With...
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[LMBTO] Hero/Zero/Somewhere in between? Austria picks for Eurovision...
Was this the highlight of Austria's 2015 Eurovision campaign? A burning piano, zero points and a 'once in 48 year' chance to host the Contest? The MakeMakes became the first host country's act to...
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[LMBTO] Will (Sweden+host) = (Denmark+win)? The first step - DMGP...
The Final that convinced me to start writing this blog - the 2013 triumph of Emmelie De Forest in Malmö with 'Only Teardrops', the song that I heard at the Danish NF that year and instantly knew it was...
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[LMBTO] Will anyone Swiss 'shine' brighter this year at Eurovision?
Steam may have been rising for Mélanie René in last year's Swiss National Final but it all went badly wrong in Vienna, where she finished bottom of her Semi-Final with the lowest amount of points....
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[LMBTO] It's the battle of the 'long names' - Georgia and B&H decide...
It's unlikely that we are going to get any longer artist names in Stockholm than those from Georgia - Nika Kocharov & The Young Georgian Lolitaz above...Or from Bosnia & Herzegovina - Dalal...
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[LMBTO] Danny Finn - UK Eurovision loses yet another name...
For those of us with long Eurovision memories, here are Prima Donna singing "Love Enough For Two" at the 1980 Eurovision Song Contest in The Hague:1980 is normally remembered for being the start of...
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[LMBTO] "Eurovision : You Decide" - Attending My First National Final...
Remember back in September when the first rumblings on social media were that the UK public would be choosing the 2016 UK Eurovision entry, after the 'biggest song search the BBC had ever undertaken'?...
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[LMBTO] Joe and Jake's first two weeks as Eurovision artists...
It's been two weeks since this embrace 'sealed the deal' on a dream night for Joe Woolford and Jake Shakeshaft, the UK's Eurovision entrants this year. It's also been almost two weeks since my last...
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[LMBTO] Eurovision Catch-Up! The National Finals (Part 1)...
María Ólafsdóttir (Iceland's 2015 representative) and Friðrik Dór (runner up to said lady) are in the starting picture here, gearing themselves up for a very entertaining rendition of 'Unbroken', the...
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[LMBTO] Eurovision Catch-Up! The National Finals (Part 2)...
I suppose you can't really clash glittering confetti with a Manga costume - can you? Jamie-Lee singing her reprise of 'Ghost' was one of the artists I reviewed last time, three entries that, in my...
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[LMBTO] Eurovision Weeks 3 & 4 for Joe & Jake...
As we have reached the end of the NF season, the UK's representatives Joe & Jake (see what I said last time, Joe on the left, Jake on the right, never deviate otherwise the simpler minded amongst...
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[LMBTO] Eurovision Catch-up! The National Finals (Part 3)...
At least there'll be one comedy routine at Eurovision this year! My least favourite entry, coming in at number 43, ManuElla showing everyone how not to stage a Eurovision entry - pulling apart the...
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[LMBTO] It's Getting Bigger! The Eurovision PreParty, Riga 2016...
Anyone else remember this? The first ever Riga pre-Party in 2014, in a small bar called the Andalūzijas Suns Bar/Cafe, where even the actual Latvian Eurovision entry that year didn't perform - at...
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[LMBTO] Now Arriving Thick And Fast - Moscow Eurovision Party 2016...
Bit of a crowded stage there with almost all the participants who were at the Moscow Pre-Party - Samra is a bit hidden by Sergey's hands (although she was very revealing most of the time - see later...
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[LMBTO] Eurovision Catch-Up! The National Finals (Part 4)...
The 'artist' that threatened to overwhelm all the Eurovision acts in Latvia, the Riga Beaver even has his own t-shirt! And I have one, although mine is filled out a bit more than the one modelled...
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[LMBTO] The Biggest Pre-Party Of Them All - Eurovision In Concert 2016...
Yep, it's the biggie, the most established Pre-Party, the one that is sort of linked to the Contest itself and the one with the most artists singing in it, so it will be getting a review as big as the...
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[LMBTO] Eurovision Travel, Hovi Star and Russian Officialdom...
Sergey Lazarev in front of the number that he and his country hope he will be finishing, come the end credits on May 14th. "You Are The Only One" is still favourite to win this year's Contest but only...
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[LMBTO] My First Pre-Party Live - The London Eurovision Party
The last pre-Party of 2016 and it's on my 'home turf'! The UK wrapped up pre-season Eurovision with the London Eurovision Party where 18 of this year's entries plus four guests sung their hearts out...
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[LMBTO] Eurovision Catch-up! The National Finals (Part 5)...
Never mind Margaret and Edyta, there's always next year! A lot of fans felt that this summed up Poland's selection process but I still think that Michał Szpak might prove a lot of the Eurovision...
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