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.  For an extensive look at the Photo Collection from Duesseldorf click here.

 
Interview with Blue (United Kingdom 2011):  The UK's band Blue was selected by the BBC to represent the United Kingdom at the 56th Eurovision Song Contest. A huge string of hits in the early 2000s such as "All Rise", "Too Close" and a collaboration with Elton John "Sorry seems to be the hardest word" just to mention a few. At the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 Blue performed "I can" which reached a remarkable Number 11 in the contest. JP interviewed the group already at the Maltese National Final but this is a little update interview done with the lovely Swedish colleague of Radio International Helena. Enjoy this interview this week on Radio International.

 

Interview with Sjonn's Friends (Iceland 2011):  Due to rather sad circumstances Sjonni's Friends represented Iceland at the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Coming Home" which was written by Sjonni Brinck and was meant to be his song he wanted to compete with at the national final in Iceland for the 2011. However, tragically, he had a brain aneurysm and died within three minutes at a rather young age of just 37 on 11 January 2011. His friends and wife decided to take to song to the national final of Iceland and they won it, thus representing Iceland at the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest in Duesseldorf. The song sucessfully qualified Iceland for the Grand Final where they ended up at Number 20 with 61 points. Eric & JP interviewed Sjonni's Friends right after their Press Conference.  

 

Interview with Yueksek Sadakat (Turkey 2011):   Probably the biggest shock for many fans to the Eurovision Song Contest and a first time ever that Turkey is not in the Final of the Eurovision Song Contest. Turkey was represented by a rockband called Yueksek Sadakat and their song is called "Live it up" which only reach Number 14 with 47 poins in the Semi Final 1. However, a great live band as it could be seen in the Euroclub when Yueksek Sadakat were the hosts of the evening. The Team of Radio International has the pleasure to meet and interview the Turkish Rockers in the Netherlands at Eurovision in Concert 2011. Listen to that interview during this week's edition of the show. Please note that this interview was scheduled to be broadcast last week on the show but due to time constraints we hope to air this interview on this week's edition of Radio International.  

 

Mysterious Eurovision Performer Quiz:  Chris Poppe returns this week with the favourite quiz where he has wrapped three Eurovision performers in musical and verbal clues for the listeners and viewers to guess during the show. Enjoy this guessing time!
 

 

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 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 to Matthias Breitinger from Germany.

 

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:

 

10 September 2011
Setubal, Portugal
Portugal's Eurovision Live Concert 2011

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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