Please note that many interviews we air are also available as video interview which can be viewed on our Radio International YouTube Channel. Just take a look and enjoy also see the artists talk to us. 

 

The Teams spent two weeks in Duesseldorf at the Media Centre taking part at the various countries' press conferences and rehearsals and interviewing the many artists that were taking part in this year's Eurovision Song Contest. Over the next weeks you will hear these interviews on Radio International and some stories from the Eurovision Song Contest 2011. Way over 35000 spectators in the Esprit Arena followed Europe's biggest music extravaganza uniting countries from all around Europe and beyond in one single TV Show - The Eurovision Song Contest. NDR & ARD Television were the Host Broadcaster doing an outstanding job in getting the show transmitted to the many million viewers around the world. Also many former Eurovision performers visited the Media Centre in Duesseldorf which was a great plus as well. Artists such as former winners Alexander Rybak and the Olson Brothers and of course not to be forgotten, the Emperor of Eurovision - Mr. Johnny Logan. For the results and more trivia on Eurovision go to the Radio International Eurovision Database by clicking here.  For an extensive look at the Photo Collection click here.

 

Interview with A Friend in London (Denmark 2011): A remarkable great result yet again in 2011 for the Danish entry to the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest for A Friend in London whose song "A new tomorrow" came 5th in the competition with a 134 points. Prior to the 56th Eurovision Song Contest Radio International already interviewed the lead singer Tim via phone on the show but now the team had the chance to have the entire band in front of the microphone. Enjoy listening to the interview.

 

Interview with Kati Wolf (Hungary 2011):  Hungary's return to the Eurovision Song Contest was in 2011 with Kati Wolf and the great MTV produced song "What about my dreams" which successfully qualified the country for the Grand Final of the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest. Kati also was classed as a great fan favourite to win the song contest, however, only reached Number 22 in the Grand Final. This week Radio International will broadcast two interviews with Kati -one done before the Semi Final and the other one after the Winners' Press Conference.  

 

Interview with Getter Jaani (Estonia 2011):  Estonia was represented at the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest by the young Getter Jaani and her team of backing vocalists and dancers. Their entry is called "Rockefeller Street" and manged to successfully qualify Estonia for the Grand Final but then only came 24th with 44 points. Before the Semi Final the Team of Radio International met the group for a little interview.  

 

Interview with Aurela Gace (Albania 2011):  Albania was represented at the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest by the charming Aurela Gace who, however, sad to say so, did not manage to qualify her country Albania to the Grand Final. Her song "Feel the Passion" only reached 47 points in Semi Final 1, thus ranking Albani 13th.  

 

Eurovision Song Contest - In the Spotlight:  Eurovision Song Contest 2011  - The Assessment:  Ross Bennett joins the team in the studio this week to take a look back at the 56th Eurovision Song Contest seen from his eyes with the biggest shockers for him. Ross talks about and playing the songs he thinks should have been higher in the listing of the Grand Final or even qualified. He reveales his shockers of the contest :). 

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. He also takes a look at some statistics such as viewing figures in the various countries and more.

In addition, Eurovision News is available on www.eurovision.tv, oikotimes.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 the last Quiz: Congratulations go again to Chris Anehall.

 

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: 

04 June 2011

Maarssen, The Netherlands:

Eurovision Artists Midsummer's Day with Chiara from Malta (more info to follow)

 

08 October 2011

Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Eurovision Party Rotterdam with Nusa Derenda (Slovenia 2011)

info: www.ogaenl.web-log.nl

 

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. The 2010 & 2011 Eurovision Interviews are not 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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