🆕 Introducing…
🏆 Nordic Neighbours: How To Win & Lose At Eurovision
📰 A series of articles investigating the contrasting fortunes of the Nordic countries at the
#Eurovision
Song Contest
🇳🇱 Betting company Bet365 has paid out on bets for the Netherlands to win tonight’s
#Eurovision
Grand Final as “a gesture of goodwill and contrary to our rules”
Earlier this week, I reserved a place in Liverpool on Airbnb for
#Eurovision
week for £200 per night, only for the host to cancel so he could "organise the pricing for those dates".
The same place has been listed again today for £41,145 per night 🙃
🇬🇧 Olly Alexander delivered a ridiculously assured and confident performance which remains true to him as an artist. He did incredibly well to deal with his mic pack falling off. Bravo
#Eurovision
Watching Sam Ryder's
#Eurovision
interview on
@thismorning
was difficult. Phillip Schofield's questions were deliberately provocative and his interview was lazy. Sam dealt with his negativity like a trooper and showed that he's better than that. Such a shame about ITV's narrative
🇩🇰 Denmark’s 2011
#Eurovision
representative, Tim Schou (A Friend in London), used the power of Facebook this week to be reunited with the guitar he used at the contest. He had to sell it in 2011 after struggling with money
📸 Tim Schou
🇬🇧 A delight to be invited by the British Embassy to attend an event with Olly Alexander and the UK
#Eurovision
delegation last night. And let me tell you…
Olly. Can. Sing.
So, when people in an office buy a cake in the middle of the afternoon for someone else they are working in the office with and stop for ten minutes to sing happy birthday and then go back to their desks, this is now called a party?
🇬🇧 This is a full-circle moment for Rita Ora to perform at this year’s
#Eurovision
. In 2009 she auditioned to represent the UK when the contest was in Russia, but ultimately withdrew after being offered the gig
That voting was shocking. Thousands of fans experienced issues and many more couldn't vote at all. A big investigation is needed ahead of worldwide online voting makes its debut at
#Eurovision
in just five months' time
#JESC2022
Rules have been broken, protocols have been ignored and people have become unwell as a result.
Cancel non-essential activities, get everyone tested today, keep everyone safe and just make this television show happen.
#Eurovision
🇬🇧🇫🇮 Olly Alexander will announce the UK jury’s points in
#UMK
tomorrow night. This man is taking every
#Eurovision
opportunity that comes his way. Respect.
Here’s to Charles Leclerc and Alex Albon who both had their races ruined by older, more experienced competitors who really should know better
#BrazilGP
@gracecmcdonough
Ridiculous! Nobody will pay that much per night. Plus, we ended up finding somewhere much better in the heart of the city for £800 for the whole week 👌
The moment The Roop performed Discoteque in Semi Final 1 in Rotterdam was a magical feeling.
After far too long, live music and Eurovision were back 🇱🇹
#ESC250
🚨 EUROVISION FANS 🚨
For a *major* project, I want to understand the public perception of each of the five Nordic countries in the last 10 editions of the
#Eurovision
Song Contest 🇸🇪🇩🇰🇳🇴🇮🇸🇫🇮
Please fill in the short survey and share it 🙏
🇬🇧 With Tap Music taking control of the BBC’s
#Eurovision
participation in 2022, the corporation has found itself with its hands tied during a phase that could genuinely be revolutionary for the UK in the contest
🚨 Swedish Police tell me there will be three protests in Malmö today
📍 Hyllie Dagvattenparken (right beside Malmö Arena) 17:00-22:00 (expected to be the largest)
📍 Stortorget 16:00-1800
📍 Davidshalltorg 18:00-21:00
#Eurovision
🇬🇧 The BBC has announced its
#Eurovision
production team for 2023
▪️ Managing Director - Martin Green
▪️ Executive Producer - Andrew Cartmell
▪️ Head of Show - Lee Smithurst
▪️ Head of Contest - Twan van de Nieuwenhuijzen
▪️ Executive in Charge of Production - James O'Brien
France wants French. Eurovision wants memorable. Europe wants fun. We want infectious. I want all of that. I want Le Petit Nicolas
#DestinationEurovision
🇫🇷
Everyone on that stage other than Caroline Lucas is demonstrating just how out of their depth they are when it comes to the climate emergency
#BBCDebate
🇬🇧 This is another success for the BBC at a Eurovision competition. Lose My Head is polished, fun and relevant. Freya Skye is confident and talented. This is the ideal recipe
#JuniorEurovision
Thanks to everyone offering to help find a place for me and my friends to stay - especially to those who have offered up their own place 🥹
Fortunately, we have managed to find somewhere else (much nicer than the place that cancelled 🤭) to stay for
#Eurovision
Today is the start of
#Eurovision
fortnight, and it just feels like any other Saturday. I know initial rehearsals are closed, but fans look forward to these two weeks for 50 weeks a year. It’s sad to see barely any fanfare about the occasion.
On May 1 I’d usually tweet something about it being
#Eurovision
month and how excited I am. The truth is, my excitement levels have been bursting for about six months already.
🇮🇪 Yesterday I sat down with
@Brooke_Scullion
to discuss
#Eurovision
, her new single Heartbreaker, cats, tattoos and everything in between. She was as funny, entertaining and open as you'd expect
⬇️ Read the full thing on
@AboutTheContest
Earlier in the week
@maemuller_
asked us to stream her song to “piss off a Tory”
Today I Wrote A Song is No.9 in the
@officialcharts
Mission complete ✅
🆕 Rita Ora has just released her new single Praising You (feat. Fatboy Slim)
🎶 This is the song she will perform live for the first time at
#Eurovision
in Liverpool next month
Poor scheduling considering the Lionesses have a huge Euro 2025 qualifying match against France at the same time… which ITV originally planned to broadcast on their main channel 😐
🇬🇧 STAND UNIQU3 finishing fourth is another result that shows
@bbceurovision
is going from strength to strength. Maisie, Hayla, Yazmin, and the whole of Team UK smashed it. Very proud
#JESC2023
🇮🇹 Marco Mengoni’s Eurovision edit of Due Vite retains the gutting and heart-wrenching poetry of the song’s original version
⬇️ My review of Italy's 2023
#Eurovision
song for
@AboutTheContest
@mrdanwalker
Couldn’t agree more Dan. Your professionalism shines through with this and you’re still a breath of fresh air in the current affairs world.
📆 2022 was terrible for so many reasons. Thankfully, one man made the year a brighter shade of dim
🚀 I reflected on the joy
@SamRyderMusic
brought us during the year he rocketed to fame
@AboutTheContest
“Wow! That Melfest running order 😍”
“SVT got that order on fire 🔥”
Tell me more about how you love the running order. Tell me how each song compliments the next one. You’ve head the songs, right? I want to know all the secrets.
🚨
#Eurovision
headlines from this morning:
▪️Allocation Draw & Insignia Handover on January 31 at 19:00GMT
▪️The event is hosted by Rylan and AJ Odudu
▪️BBC Two will broadcast the event for UK viewers
▪️ The artwork and theme of Eurovision 2023 will be unveiled on Jan 31 too
It’s a bit weird that the
#Eurovision
announcement scheduled to be on
@BBCRadio2
this morning went missing in action. No mention of the contest on Zoe Ball’s show whatsoever.
🇬🇧 This is the first time a British
#Eurovision
act has been nominated for an award at the
#BRITs
since Cliff Richard won British Male Solo Artist at the first ever edition of the awards in 1977
🇫🇷 La Zarra has given us the best and most true-to-life live vocal of any artist this
#Eurovision
season so far. This version of Évidemment is incredible
🇮🇱 I cannot stress how quickly the atmosphere in the
#Eurovision
press centre changes when Israel performs
The atmosphere is so uncomfortable. A colleague of mine describes the feeling as a “social experiment”
🇬🇧 From the
#Eurovision
live blog on Reddit on the UK's staging: "Olly Alexander's Eurovision performance transports viewers into a post- apocalyptic dystopian boxing gym locker room, aboard a spaceship hurtling toward Earth through a black hole in 1985!"
While all sides of the racing community debate about this, that and the other, let’s not forget about the bigger picture. Enzo Fittipaldi is spending a night in hospital
#F1
#F2
#SaudiArabianGP
Today
@theemmamillen
and I played In For A Penny with
@StephenMulhern
. We won some £££, had a doosh-off and got this lovely photo taken before things got messy 🥧
It’ll be on telly at some point
#doosh
#dreamcometrue
📸: A really tall ITV Producer
🇫🇮 Did Finland break the
#Eurovision
six on stage rule?! You decide... 🧵
4️⃣ Windows95man and Henri Piispanen were on stage, alongside backing dancers Jesse Wijnans and Jasmir Vesander
Jetting home after the most unpredictable
#Eurovision
week. A delight as always to be a small cog in the
@EuroTripPodcast
machine. I hope our coverage helped you navigate this year’s chaotic edition.
🇺🇦 Timur Miroshnychenko gave an impassioned and heartfelt speech of thanks to the British public at the
#NTAs
. Surely a
#Eurovision
2023 host in waiting
THAT'S RICH IS OUT NOW! 💰🤑 Thank you to
@RyanTubridyShow
@RTERadio1
for giving it its first play today! I'm SO excited to perform this live on
@thelatelateshow
Eurosong Special on 4th Feb - hoping to represent Ireland in the ICONIC
@Eurovision
Song Contest 💅🏼
Tomorrow morning (and for the next four Fridays)
@TheEmmaMillen
will be waking up the nation on
@BBCR1
Early Breakfast 📻
Tune in at 5am for loads of Geordie energy, fun features and some top tunes 🥳
I couldn’t be prouder of her for achieving this 🥰