Aderet, Israeli Transsexual Singer, awarded ‘12 Points by Lebanon'

Facts and Opinion. More often than we think, new connections between Jewish, Israeli and Arab people, create their own unique interferencing waves, reverberating in their own space and leave the Israeli Arabic...

Russia Wins 53rd Eurovision Song Contest

Big night is over and Russia seems to get everything; Eurovision, Olympics, ice-hockey World championship etc.But in Sweden the disappointment was big when 1999 winner, Charlotte Perelli, was "only" the 18th. Sweden has won the competition four times and is used to get better...

Performers Hit the Stage Saturday in Eurovision Contest

Finnish heavy or Swedish barbi? Will Russia finally win? Is there an East-Europe block or can UK just admit that their song sucks? The great evening will tell you the answer. "The Eurovision Song Contest takes place...

Voting Irregularities and Political Wrangling: Eurovision 2008

It's Eurovision time again... Serbia is hosting Eurovision 2008, as competing nations brace themselves for controversy surrounding backroom voting agreements and methods of voting (SMS, phone). I'm not seeing as much...

Sweden the favourite to win Eurovision

This year's Eurovision song contest has an early front-runner.  Charlotte Perrelli who won the contest in 1999, has come ahead as an early favourite."Sweden's Eurovision entry has emerged as the favourite to win...

Franco and the 1968 Eurvision Fix

Many have complained about the voting system failure of the modern Eurovision song contest, but it would appear that before the advent of SMS and internet voting the results were even more unfair. A new documentary...

Fowl Eurovision entry for Ireland

"Eurovision Song Contest feathers may be ruffled by Ireland's decision to be represented in May's cross-continental competition by a puppet bird. Dustin The Turkey was plucked from a raft of six finalists, winning a...

Eurovision Song Contest: Serbia Brings It Home

UPDATE: Serbia wins it!"Serbian singer Marija Serifovic has won the Eurovision Song Contest at a ceremony in Helsinki which saw the UK's entry coming joint second-last. Serifovic's powerful ballad Molitva had been...

Top 10 finalists of Eurovision Song Contest revealed!

UPDATE: Watch some of the finalists in action, here. Three cheers for the Eastern Bloc! And the Eurasian countries! And Moldova! They are among the finalists in this year's massive Eurovision song contest. The...

Eurovision act angers Ukrainians

"Angry Ukrainian nationalists have held protests against the selection of a controversial drag queen to represent Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest. The demonstrations are part of a campaign to pressure the former Soviet republic to withdraw from the contest. Verka...

Woeful Wogan names the nation's wrong choice for Eurovision

He has spent many years poking fun at the contestants in the Eurovision Song Contest. Now Terry Wogan has had his comeuppance after making a spectacular blunder on the show to decide this year's UK entry.

Israelis Choose Song Mocking Global Jihad For Eurovision

  If you haven't heard Israel is slated to be represented at the 2007 Eurovision contest by Teapacs (formerly known as Tipex) singing a song against terror, bombs, and the big one-- the Iranian Nuclear program. The band hales from S'derot in the negev near the Gaza...

Finnish rockers 'not Satanists'

"Finnish Eurovision winners Lordi have been defended against claims of Satanism by their country's ambassador to the UK."

Horror rocks Europe

"The viewers of the Eurovision contest -- which is something like "American Idol" but for all the countries in Europe -- traditionally select a harmless, banal pop singer for the annual award. But this year it was...

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