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  • May 14, 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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Lordi to tour UK

Finnish Eurovision winners Lordi will be visiting the UK as part of their 2006 tour, as public interest in the

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Shiri hits the US

Israel's Shiri Maimon, who ended in a celebrated fourth place for her country at the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest in

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MaltaSong spat ends in court

Tensions between MaltaSong chairperson Robert Abela and former post-holder Grace Borg reached a head this week as Abela filed a

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Lordi gathering biggest ever

Finland's victorious monster rockers seem prone to breaking record after record. After not only achieving the highest ever Eurovision score

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French commentary anger continues

Angry fans have created a petition online demanding an apology for the alleged disrespect of the French commentators Siar and

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2006 result: Finalists versus all countries

Of all of the recent suggested changes to the voting system, one of the most frequently heard concerns allowing only

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UPD Daz: I'll do it all again!

Eurovision Song Contest fans might be seeing a familiar face at the 2007 contest, as UK lad Daz Sampson is

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Tensions clash in Malta

Following a last place for Malta's Fabrizio and a poor showing for Switzerland's one-sixth Maltese Six4One, opposing camps have clashed

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Lordi at winner's press conference

Finnish monster rockers Lordi have given their first press conference after bringing Finland an historic first Eurovision Song Contest win,

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Australia backs Jane

The whole of Australia seems to be backing fellow Aussie Jane Comerford and her band Texas Lightning, as bets reach

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Belgian radio listeners vote: no more

After a reported 1,5 million Belgian TV viewers looked on as favourite Kate Ryan was knocked out of the contest

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Bookies reconsider

Sweden has taken pole position as the bookies' favourite to win the Eurovision Song Contest aftermaking it through the semifinal

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We are the winners!

The ten successful semifinalists have just faced a packed conference following the announcement of the songs for Saturday's final. Each

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Last semifinal dress rehearsal over

The third and final dress rehearsal for the semifinal has begun in Athen's OAKA. It represents the final opportunity for