Eurovision 2013 Preview Part One
In our first podcast preview for Eurovision 2013, Hikaru and the latest member of the JOYEurovision team: Catching Up’s Brett Schryver review the entries for the Big 5 (UK, France, […]
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Musings – The view down here
It’s never over. Eurovision that is. Or are there some worrying signs ? The singers and the songs have come and gone, but the number of viewers who watched the […]
Eurovision History Chat: Portugal
Eurovision has many hidden stories, and one of the most surprising ones is that of Portugal. Hikaru had previously talked about the 1960s & 1970s entries of Portugal in a […]
Eurovision History Chat: Luxembourg
Mention Luxembourg and Eurovision and often times people think of Serge Gainsbourg’s cheeky and cutting winner in 1965 performed by the naive France Gall. Luxembourg, however, was far from naive […]
EuroSongCountdown 2012 – 12th May 2012
The Countdown is heating up. Only 14 days left! Here is the podcast version of EuroSongCountdown for 12 May 2012 Our full interview with John Kennedy O’Connor (have a safe […]
Eurovision History Chat: Cyprus
Cyprus made its debut at Eurovision in 1981 with the pleasant and popular Monika, a song which Sha-Pow points out is actually a play on words. Without a doubt, Cyprus […]
Musings – Sharing the passion
As Hikaru & I countdown to our first “EuroSongCountdown 2012″ on Joy 94.9/joy.org.au on Saturday April 7th at 2100 AET/1200GMT we have both been reflecting on the passions we find […]
Special Report: Portugal at the Eurovision Song Contest 1975-1979
In part one we saw how the Salazar regime used Eurovision as a propaganda tool to promote itself and its brutal colonial war. In part two, find out how Post-revolutionary […]
Special Report: Portugal at Eurovision in the 1960s & 1970s
Last year’s Portuguese entry “A Luta e alegria” (“the struggle is happiness”) was a comical allusion to 1970s Revolutionary Portugal. In the first of two reports covering Portuguese entries in the 1960s […]
Eurovision History Chat: Belarus
The Eurovision family is like many families: you have relatives you get along with and ones that you don’t quite see eye to eye with on one or several issues. […]
