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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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Schlagerfest, London : Party in Swedish style!

The venue Loom in London will play host to a pop-packed night of party fun this April 20th, as a

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Free tickets in sponsor-run contest

The Spanish operator of Eurovision sponsor and mobile giant TeliaSonera, Yoigo, is offering the chance of a lifetime to its

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MF DVD released today

Fans of Sweden's Melodifestivalen will be able to relive the highs and lows of this year's contest, as the double

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Styling Olivia

In a contest where as much thought goes into styling and stage show as vocal performance, choice of costume is

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BBC Plans Euro Special

The BBC is planning a Eurovision-themed special edition of its music programme Top of the Pops 2, it was revealed

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Ruslana plays Eilat

Ukrainian superstar and winner of the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest, Ruslana, is set to make an appearance at the International

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Teapacks championed on UK local radio

Teapacks have been picking up some international attention over the past couple of weeks, as the Israeli participants' song Push

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Belgium announces in February

Belgian fans can expect details of their national song for Helsinki to be released around February 2007, according to the

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DR songs announced Thursday

Danish broadcaster DR will hold a press conference at noon this Thursday, 7th December 2006, to announce the sixteen songs,

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Katie's Eurovision shame

Katie Price looks back at her attempt to represent the United Kingdom at the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest with embarrassment,

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Les Wampas for France?

The French punk rock group Les Wampas has declared an interest in representing France at the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest

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UK record deal for Shiri?

Shiri Maimon, who sang Israel to a celebrated fourth place at the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv, Ukraine, has

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Julia's Jobbing at McDonalds

This week saw Russia's 2004 Eurovision Song Contest participant, Julia Savicheva, in a slightly different line of work from her

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Magalie Vaé – Magalie Vaé (CD album)

Although not a Eurovision Song Contest artist herself (yet!), fifth French Star Academy winner Magalie Vaé includes a cover version