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  • June 8, 2025

Richard West-Soley

Richard’s ESC history began way back in 1992, when he discovered the contest could fuel his passion for music and languages. Since then, it’s been there at every corner for him in some way or another. He joined the esctoday.com team back in 2006, and quickly developed a love for writing about the contest. In his other life, he heads the development team at the learning resources company Linguascope, and writes about all aspects of language learning on the site Polyglossic.com.

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Stargate mix for Norway

Internationally reknowned production team Stargate, who count Beyoncé and Shakira amongst their clientele, have created a new mix of the

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Austria votes: Ukraine!

The second in a bumper crop of OGAE national votes this weekend, Austria is next up, with an enthusiastic douze

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Molitva wins in Italy

OGAE results have come in thick and fast this weekend, and now Italian fans have added their results to the

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Another OGAE win for Alenka

Members of Bosnia and Herzegovina's branch of the international Eurovision fan club OGAE have voted, and there is a very

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Carola to duet with Lordi?

Swedish Schlager superstar Carola wants the chance to sing with Finnish monster rockers and 2006 Eurovision Song Contest victors Lordi,

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Stockholm's Sarbel fever

Greek Eurovision Song Contest representative Sarbel whipped clubbers up into a frenzy at his recent appearance at Stockholm venue Club

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New mixes for Portugal

Sabrina has recorded new versions of her Eurovision Song Contest entry for Portugal Dança comigo (Vem ser feliz), including an

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Alenka hits Japan

Slovenian pride Alenka Gotar is limbering up for the Eurovision Song Contest well beyond the confines of Europe, with a

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Misión Eurovisión stars reunite for previews

Spanish broadcaster TVE is preparing in-depth coverage of this year's entries and D'nash's Helsinki adventure in special preview and post-contest

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Former winners in Malta concert

Former Eurovision Song Contest winners Katrina and the Waves and Toto Cotugno will joining this year's Maltese hopeful Olivia Lewis,

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London votes: Denmark!

Danish representative DQ may have a month to go before finding out whether Europe appreciates the entry Drama Queen, but

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Malta: A little help from Cyprus

From island to island, it seems that this year's Maltese entry Vertigo will be getting a little help from Cyprus,

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Real, strong girls like us

Serebro are planning a strong debut in Helsinki this May, when they perform Song #1 at the Eurovision Song Contest

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Exclusive interview with the KMGs

“Even in the 1970s, there were no funk bands in Eurovision”. Until now, that is. In an exclusive interview with