Eurovision Song Contest with Radio International and on Oikotimes.TV

Eurovision Interview with Hanna Pakarinen (Finland 2007): The Eurovision Party in Setubal took place on 11 September 2010 under open sky with the participation of many national and international Eurovision performers. JP went to this event and brought back some interviews which Radio International will be airing within the next weeks. This week the series continues with Finland entry at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2007 Hanna Pakarinen who reached Number 17 with the rockish song  called "Leave me alone"  Listen to this interview with Hanna and JP about her participation at the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest and what  happened with her career right after until now and her future career plans.  

 

Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010 - Interview with Nicole Azzopardi (Malta 2010) and Glen Vella: The eighth edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest will take place on Saturday, 20 November 2010 in Minsk, Belarus where 14 young singers will compete for the trophy of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010. This week Radio International is proud to welcome on the show live from Malta - Nicole Azzopardi who won the ticket to Minsk in winning the national Maltese Junior Song Contest with the song "Knock Knock! ... Boom! Boom!". Glen Vella - no stranger to the listeners of Radio International - who has been very successful in the last couple of years in the Maltese national selection to the Eurovision Song Contest reaching third in 2009 and second in 2010 - will be joining the interview as he is the vocal teacher of Nicole. The Team of Radio International is looking forward to be talking to both singers on this week's edition of Radio International. 

 

Euro Friend Song Contest 2010 - Qualifiers of HEAT 7:  Radio International in collaboration with the Euro Friends Song Contest 2011 announcing the qualifiers of HEAT 7 which is a reflection of what the international juries voted for on the Face Book Page of the contest.  Andy Simon who is one of the prime organisers will be joining the team in this week's show to announce the qualifiers of HEAT 7 and you can hear little clips of the songs that made it through.  HEAT 8 will start shortly and on the Face Book Page of the Euro Friends Song Contest, you can vote for your 10 favourite songs in the Eurovision Song Contest amongst the eighth hundred songs of Europe's biggest music competition.  Join to vote for your favourite Eurovision songs by clicking on this link which takes you to the Face Book Page of the Event. Remember, you have to be a member in order to join the voting.   

 

Eurovision Song Contest Spotlight: Germany. In view of the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest from Germany, Radio International's four regular Eurovision Experts will be joining us in turn week by week to review all the German entries of the Eurovision Song Contest from 1956 to 2010. This week Chris Poppe takes a look at the years 1960 to 1964. 

Eurovision Song Contest News:  Eurovision News. Luke Fisher joins the team in the studio every week to bring you the news and the latest developments connected to the Eurovision Song Contest. Whether it is music releases of Eurovision performers, special concerts, gossip, etc Luke will have it all for us during the weekly edition of Radio International. Also check out the occasation appearance of Zoran Kovacic from Serbia on Radio International bringing us some Eurovision News in his style.
In addition, Eurovision News is available on www.eurovision.tv, oikotimes.com, esctime.com, escdaily.com, esctoday.com and escflashmalta.com. 

Eurovision Quiz:  Scratch your heads and bite your nails at  our weekly Eurovision Song Contest Quiz. Good luck and win a copy of a past Eurovision Song Contest Final on DVD. All you have to do is to identify the five clips with Artist, Song, Country and Year. Send your answers via the website's CONTACTs form or via the msn-chat This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it     As long as stock last you can also select something out of the Eurovision 2010 Goodies Bag. Good Luck! And the Winner of last week's Quiz: Michael Nagelkerke from Maastricht in the Netherlands. Congratulations yet again!

 

Home Composed Song Contest 2010: Austria is hosting the 2010 Home Composed Song Contest via the following website. 22 songs from 9 countries are competing for the winning trophy. Until midnight of 31 October 2010 you can vote for your favourite songs. During the next few editions of Radio International we will bring you the songs a bit closer. But also you can listen to the songs again via the above website. Enjoy!

 

Eurovision Song Contest Calendar of Events: Check out a detailed listing of all events scheduled around Europe. If you hear of something we have not listed please drop us a line by clicking here and let us know. After Eurovision is before Eurovision and to bridge the Eurovision Gap many Eurovision Clubs will be holding their annual convention.

 

Upcoming Events: 

16 Oct 2010 -  EUROBASH 2010 in Manchester, OGAE UK

30 Oct 2010 -  OGAE Luxembourg Gala 

06 Nov 2010 - Eurovision Club (EC) Germany's Annual Convention

Eurovision Song Contest Interviews the Radio International Team has done with the Eurovision performers can be heard by visiting our Eurovision section of this website or check out the Radio International goes.... part of the website. The 2010 Eurovision Interviews have not yet been displayed there. You can find them as part of the weekly editions of Radio International. You can go through the Show Archive to find interviews by using search. 

 

Eurovision Music requests as well as other music requests are most welcome and can be done via our website's CONTACT US page. Let us know what you want to hear and where you are from. Due to the large number of requests we received and cannot accommodate this week these requests will be added to the play list for the future shows. 

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