Eurovision Interview with Anna Rossinelli (Switzerland 2011): Last weekend saw the very first national Final of the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest Season. Radio International was present during the show and could interview the lady that will represent Switzerland in Duesseldorf at the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 - Anna Rossinelli. The song "In love for a while" received 23.93% of the televotes and was also the clear favourite of the Jury (no voting power though) in the show. In addition to the interview with the winning artists Radio International also spoke to the presenter of the show Sven Epiney who is also the Eurovision Commentator for Swiss TV. You can hear this interview in next weeks edition of Radio International. Watch the whole Swiss National Final here. 

 

Interview with Seyran Ismayilkhanov - Contestant to represent Azerbaijan in the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest: Seyran is a singer / songwriter / TV producer / actor / Model from Azerbaijan who lived for some time in Germany. His passion is Oriental music which he combines with modern European Pop and Jazz music. He attended the Moscow Conservatoire and has since then become a regular stage performer.  Seyran produced also his own TV Show. What is the link to the Eurovision Song Contest. Find out and listen to the interview  with Seyran as he will be joining Radio International this week. Check out his website which you find here.

 

Euro Friend Song Contest 2010 - Start of Heat 12: Radio International in collaboration with the Euro Friends Song Contest 2011 announcing the start of HEAT 12 and final one in which the international juries can vote on the Face Book Page of the contest. You can be part of the jury. All you have to do is to go to the Face Book Page of the Euro Friends Song Contest and vote for your 10 favourite songs in the Eurovision Song Contest amongst the last hundred songs of Europe's biggest music competition.  Last week Radio International revealed the ten qualifiers of HEAT 11 and now HEAT 12 has started and is open to be voted on until Sunday evening.  Next week Radio International and Andy from the Euro Friends Song Contest will reveal the ten qualifiers of Heat 12 during the show. 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. Chris Poppe is back to continue with the review of the German entries in the Eurovision Song Contest 2001 - 2005.

 

Home Composed Song Contest 2010 - The Result: Radio International continues the support of this songwriters competition also in 2010. Austria virtually hosted this contest this year and visitors to the website of the OGAE Austria could cast their vote until 31 October 2010 to their favourite songs. The Voting Show is now available online here and shortly the overview table will be displayed here. Radio International will be producing a show with the Top 15 of this year's Home Composed Song Contest to be broadcast on 29 December 2010. 

 

Eurovision Song Contest 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 occasational 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 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: Matthias Breitinger from Berlin, Germany. Congratulations!

 

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 Fan Club Events: 

22 Jan - OGAE Germany Convention, Munic, Germany

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.