Darin is Melodifestivalen Joker 1!!!!

Eurovision comes to Dublin!

Tired of harassing the DJ for a Eurovision song every time you go to a bar/club? Fear not as next weekend Dublin will become Eurovision central.

The annual ESCnation.com fan meet-up has been running for several years and is a great opportunity for fans of the Eurovision to get together from all over Europe. This year the event is taking place in Dublin.
There are two Eurovision themed nights taking place during the first weekend of November. Friday November 6th is the launch night at Panti Bar on Capel St. in the downstairs area.

The evening will be a chance for fans to get together and dance all night to the non-qualifying Eurovision entries from years gone by, so expect lots of fantastic Melodifestivalen classics!

Whether it is songs that just missed out on the ticket to the finals or an entry that flopped like a lead balloon, plenty of fan favourites will be featured on the night. Expect plenty of schlager and key changes!

Saturday November 7th is our main event in the upstairs area once again at Panti Bar and several Eurovision singers from previous years will be attending and performing such as Jean Elliott ( 3rd place in 2004 NF ), Donna McCaul (Ireland 2005) and Sinead Mulvey (Ireland 2009). Mainstream ESC hits will feature throughout the night.

Most importantly, we'll be raising money on the Saturday for the Gay Marraige Support Group. Raffle tickets will go on sale with Eurovision related prizes for the winners on the night.

Both nights will run from 9pm until 2am WITH FREE ENTRANCE and we're expecting a huge turnout! Looking forward to seeing you then!

For further information please see: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=87754499503http://www.pantibar.com/

Bettan is Back!

As the rumours of what artists are part of the 3500+ entries received by SVT one of the most exciting ones is that Elisabeth Andreasson four time Eurovision star is in the line up!

Will it be another classic like' I Evighet' ?!

Others said to have submitted include:

Anna Book

Arja Saijonmaa

Jessica Andersson

Brolle Jr

Danny Saucedo as a soloist

Arash (Half of Azerbaijan 09)

Darin

Pernilla Wahlgren

Sibel

Kevin Borg

Johan Palm

Mans (As a songwriter)

Guess who is the new Sugababe? (hint-the one on the left!)

Today Jade has been announced as the new Sugababe replacing Keisha and not Amelle as previously reported.

Jade's debut solo single 'My Man' is also released today!

Congratulations Jade!

Amy Diamond - Up (New single from the album Swings and Roundabouts 2009)

Check out the new single from Amy!

The cities and dates for Melodifestivalen have been released!
Heat 1: 6 February 2010 Swedbank Arena, Örnsköl
Heat 2: 13 February2010 Göransson Arena, Sandviken.
Heat 3: 20 FebruarY 2010 Scandinavium, Göteborg.
Heat 4: 27 Februari 2010 Malmö Arena, Malmö.
Andra chansen: 6th March 2010 Conventum Arena, Örebro.

Final: 13 March 2010 Globen, Stockholm.

To celebrate check out Nanne's new single above!
Will she be in the line up?!

Tickets go on sale via Ticnet on the 19th of October

Everybody wants a bit of Johnny!

Recent rumours arose that Johnny Logan had been contacted by the French braodcaster to write an entry for France 2010.

In yesterday's Irish Times Johnny stated what Ireland need to do to be successful at Eurovision once more. He also said that he had been contacted by 3 different countries in relation to songwriting for Oslo!

Next year is the 30th anniversary of his first Eurovision win; of it he says, “it seems like yesterday”.

He is presently considering requests from three countries to write their Eurovision song. Despite what he regards as the prejudice of entering or even winning the contest, he accepts it “would be very hard to write a song for any other country except Ireland.”

As for Ireland’s Eurovision hopes, he thinks the wrong people are involved. “They’re like headless chickens – they know what result they want, but they don’t know how to get there. Successive Irish attempts at putting together the winning structure have put it into such a bad state that we’ve become a joke.

“The best chance Ireland has of winning it again is to take it seriously, and that means putting something into the Eurovision that has a chance of winning. And that requires the country being involved. What the Irish entry in the Eurovision has become is the property of a small group of people. It doesn’t belong to the country anymore, and that, ultimately, is the problem. In order for it to get back to some semblance of respectability, the song has to be representative of Ireland.

We have to prove ourselves again, and we can’t presume that just because we’re Irish that everybody loves us. Those days are gone.”

Would you like to see JL return to Eurovision?