esctoday.com | your daily eurovision centre http://www.esctoday.com 2008-07-24T00:33:05+02:00 Kate Ryan turned 28 yesterday. A very special present arrived from Sweden: a gold record for her latest single Ella elle l'a, which have sold over 10,000 copies. A party celebrating this fact has been held in Stockholm, the city where Kate Ryan's hit was recorded. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12166) http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12166?rss 2008-07-23T14:36:44+02:00 eurovision Belgium Sweden Belgium: Kate Ryan celebrates golden birthday On Monday, the Prime Minister of Russia Vladimir Putin confirmed Moscow as the host city of the 54th Eurovision Song Contest. Channel One Russia, the broadcaster in charge of preparations of the contest proposed the Olimpiisky Sport Complex to be the venue. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12165) http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12165?rss 2008-07-23T05:00:06+02:00 eurovision Russia Russia: know possible venues It has become a tradition that Albania is the first of all participating countries in The Eurovision Song Contest to select its song. The exact dates of this years Festivali i Këngës aren’t known yet, but preparations have started already. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12164) http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12164?rss 2008-07-22T21:38:11+02:00 eurovision Albania Albania: First country pick song again Antonio Martos, better known as Ony, is to leave his band D'Nash next September. After their Summer tour D'Tour, Ony will join a new musical project. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12163) http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12163?rss 2008-07-22T21:26:50+02:00 eurovision Spain Spain: leaves D'Nash The Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Mr Vladimir Putin, declared in a meeting of the Presidium of the Russian Government that Moscow will be the city to hold the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest. Deputy Prime Minister Alexandr Zhukov will be in charge of preparations. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12162) http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12162?rss 2008-07-21T14:30:03+02:00 eurovision Russia Putin: "Eurovision will held Moscow" Nearly two months have passed since the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest and esctoday.com''s Dominique Dufaut met with Bruno Berberes, the French Head of Delegation, to discuss the experience in Belgrade from his point of view and find out if anything can be said on France's 2009 participation. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12161) http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12161?rss 2008-07-18T22:31:24+02:00 eurovision France Bruno Berberes: much Eurovision will kill Eurovision Sibel Tüzün, who represented Turkey in 2006 with the song Superstar, is returning with a brand new look and a new single. Before releasing her new album in September, Sibel presents her two new songs Aç telefonu and Yaz Aşkı. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12160) http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12160?rss 2008-07-17T22:30:06+02:00 eurovision Turkey Turkey: Sibel Tuzun returns with look songs As earlier reported the United Kingdom were rumoured to return to the Junior Eurovision Song Contest for the first time since 2005, when ITV decided to end the United Kingdom's participation. The UK started well in Junior Eurovision with 3rd place in 2003 and 2nd in 2004, when the UK reached 14th place and the ratings dropped ITV decided to resign from the contest. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12159) http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12159?rss 2008-07-17T22:14:40+02:00 eurovision United Kingdom JESC: Less Likely Participate 1986 Eurovision winner, Sandra Kim, is presently playing her own role in an commercial for Dash washing liquid. Sandra performs non other but her 1986 winning entry J'aime la vie, appropriately adapted for the occasion to J'aime, j'aime le blanc! (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12154) http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12154?rss 2008-07-17T22:00:14+02:00 eurovision Belgium Belgium Sandra sings Dash This year's Eurovision Song Contest will be remembered as the one which broke all the viewing figures records, not only on television but also via internet, through the webcast service available on eurovision.tv and powered by Octoshape. Over 1.5 sessions were served to more than 163 countries across the World. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12158) http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12158?rss 2008-07-17T20:30:05+02:00 eurovision Other Record numbers 2008 webcast esctoday.com is pleased to announce a very special night of entertainment for our readers. To celebrate the arrival of Eurobeat the musical to London’s West End, the heart of musical theatre in Europe, we are teaming up with the show organisers and ukeurovision for the UK Eurovision Theatre night. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12157) http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12157?rss 2008-07-17T12:28:31+02:00 eurovision United Kingdom Eurobeat Musical: special fans night Radio International 16 July 2008 from 2000 - 2300 hours CEST available live here on esctoday.com and on FM 106.4 and 106.8 in parts of the Netherlands. Joining them for the first time this week is Chris Poppe who together with Marcus Keppel-Palmer are their Eurovision Experts from the UK, Chris Poppe will be alternating with Marcus and he will be taking a look at profiles of previous Winners of the Eurovision Song Contest. Listeners can guess who it could be. .time {behavior: url(#default#time2);} NOW - Netherlands: Radio International (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12156) http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12156?rss 2008-07-16T20:12:08+02:00 eurovision The Netherlands Netherlands: Radio International interviews eurostars Spanish viewers last night could watch the Belgian 2006 Eurovision representative Kate Ryan performing at the show Operación Triunfo which has brought to fame to many well-established artists nowadays such as David Bisbal or Rosa. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12155) http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12155?rss 2008-07-16T19:29:20+02:00 eurovision Belgium Spain Belgium: Kate Ryan performed Spanish Sakis Rouvas, Greece's superstar that represented his country in the Eurovision song contest 2004 and also been the host in 2006 in Athens is going to represent Greece in Moscow. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12153) http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12153?rss 2008-07-15T19:04:18+02:00 eurovision Greece Greece: Sakis Rouvas Moscow! Ruslana , the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 , will perform tomorrow in the Slavianski Bazaar music festival. This event is very important for the Ukrainian Eurovision winner as she made her debut there and won this festival with the song Oj, letily dyky gusy back in 1996. The premiere of the Wild Energy in Belarus on the stage located in the city of Vitebsk. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12152) http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12152?rss 2008-07-15T00:11:13+02:00 eurovision Belarus Ukraine Ruslana performs tomorrow Slavianski Bazaar Behind the scenes, esctoday.com runs using a high-end piece of custom-made software keeping the website running around the clock, throughout the year. To maintain our existing technical facilities and contribute to the development of esctoday.com, we are looking for new volunteers to take over the existing technical team, after having served esctoday.com with intense dedication for over six years. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/9681) http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/9681?rss 2008-07-14T11:39:26+02:00 eurovision Other esctoday.com wants YOU! The Spanish dancing couple for the forthcoming Eurovision Dance Contest is finally fully known: Rosa López who represented Spain at Eurovision Song Contest 2002 will be joined by Nieto, winner of the show ¡Quiero bailar! (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12150) http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12150?rss 2008-07-14T01:01:43+02:00 eurovision Spain Spain: Nieto join Rosa Glasgow Last July 1st, France took over Europe’s presidency until the end of the year and a big number of cultural events are scheduled. Among the first ones, “Bals d’Europe” celebrates French National Day – today July 14th – together will all other 26 countries. All around the country, DJs who will be in charge of events have be invited to a double CD, which includes 27 tracks, mainly songs of Eurovision. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12149) http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12149?rss 2008-07-13T10:47:11+02:00 eurovision France France: invited make people dance Eurovision The Eurovision Song Contest 2009 is still far away, but some die hard Dutch fans and press people have started the search already for the artist or band that should bring the Netherlands back in the final again after not making it for 4 consecutive years. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12148) http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12148?rss 2008-07-12T15:49:31+02:00 eurovision The Netherlands Dutch fans start search 2009 already After Armenia's successful debut at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2007, this year Monika Manucharova got the Armenian lucky ticket for Limassol. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12147) http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12147?rss 2008-07-12T14:22:22+02:00 eurovision Armenia Monika Manucharova from Armenia goes Limassol