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 D'Nash (Spain 2007):  OGAE Luxembourgh held their 5th annual EUROGALA in the legendary Grand Theatre of Luxembourg City where the Eurovision Song Contest 1973 and 1984 was staged. This year's edition of the EUROGALA saw the participation of three former Eurovision performers. Luxembourg's Marion Welter, Portugal's Anabella and Spain's D'Nash. Over the next weeks on Radio International you will be able to hear the interviews. Starting this week is D'Nash when Luke Fisher talks to the boys (Mikel, Javi & Basti) of the group that represented Spain in the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest from Helsinki with the song "I love you mi vida" coming 20th. Listen to it here on Radio International.  

 

Interview with Justine Pelmelay (Netherlands 1989):  on the 08 October 2011, OGAE Netherlands had their very first convention in the Dutch City of Rotterdam with the participation of Justine Pelmelay (Netherlands 1989), Nusa Derenda (Slovenia 2001) and Lucia Perez (Spain 2011). The Team of Radio International was present and conduted interviews with all three artists. This week listen to the interview which JP and Luke Fisher did with Justine Pelmelay on her experience at the Eurovision Song Contest  in 1989 and the time afterwards. Justine represented the Netherlands at the 1989 Eurovision Song Contest in Lausanne, Switzerland with the song "Blijf zoals je bent" reaching Number 15. 

 

Eurovision 2012 - Finland's National Final Update with Lilian Brunell:  Radio International's Scandinavian rowing reporter Lilian has been at the official Press Conference of the Finish Broadcaster YLE where the songs that will compete in the national final in Finland for the ticket to the 2012  Eurovision Song Contest where revealed and also how the Finish selection process is structured. Lilian spoke to Pia Ljungman from YLE and you can find the Top 40 songs selected out of 540 entries here. One of them is going to represent Finland in Baku come May.  

 

Euro Friends Song Contest 2012 with Andy Simon: Returning to the Airwaves of Radio International is the next season of the Euro Friends Song Contest. In search for the ultimate Eurovision song as voted for by the many fans around the world the Euro Friends Song Contest 2012 has begun. The selection process is different than in the last edition of the Euro Friends Song Contest where the 1200 plus Eurovision songs were divided into 12 Heats and through Quarter Finals and Semi Finals had a Final with at the end the Ultimate Eurovision Song until 2010 which was won by Norway's Alexander Rybak and the song "Fairytale". Andy will launch the new season on the show this week. The website of the Euro Friends Song Contest you will find here or join the Facebook Group here. 

 

Eurovision Song Contest Spotlight - Eurovision's Runner Up with Chris Poppe:  The series continuous with our Eurovision specialists to take a chronological look at the songs that came second in the Eurovision Song Contest during the years from 1956 to now whereas 1956 had no known ranking. Chris joins the team in the studio this week to reflect the years 1977 to 1981.  

 

Home Composed Song Contest 2011 - The Results: The World has voted for the 2011 entries of the Home Composed Song Contest. Andy Brook and his team have counted the votes and produced a couple of voting shows. However, Radio International is very happy to have Andy on the show live to reveal the results. Listen to the Top 5 songs of the 2011 Home Composed Song Contest during the show this week which also marks the end of the 2011 season. For details of the results visit the website here and for the history of the Home Composed Song Contest click here. So the excitement is high and which country will be hosting the Home Composed Song Contest 2012? :) Congratulations go to Tony Sogaard Olsen from Denmark for his entry "Visne Roser" winning the 2011 Home Composed Song Contest. To see the Final Result on the Score Board - click here. 

 

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, escxtra.com, esctoday.com and escflashmalta.com. 

 

Welcome escXtra.com: Before we start with this week's Eurovision News Headlines - the Team of Radio International would like to welcome a brandnew Eurovision News Website to the cyberspace - escXtra.com has the latest and greatest Eurovision News up to the minute. Bookmark it and be always in touch with the up-to-date status of the World of the Eurovision Song Contest.

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Bert Ouwerkerk from Utrecht, The Netherlands. 

 

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:

05 February 2012

Munich, Germany

OGAE Germany Convention

 

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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