Sarah Louise Bennett Remember Monday represented the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest (L-R): Charlotte Steele, Lauren Byrne and Holly-Anne Hull It has been two weeks since the UK’s first girl group entrant to Eurovision since 1999 took the stage. Remember Monday had an eventful few months leading up to the competition in Switzerland –...
Austria’s new Eurovision Song Contest winner JJ returned home on Sunday 18 May to a warm welcome at Vienna’s Schwechat Airport after his victory in Basel. Fans, family, and media gathered and cheered as JJ smiled and posed for selfies. The 24-year-old, who is a counter tenor, took the title at the competition with the...
Austrian singer JJ won the Eurovision Song Contest in Basel, Switzerland, with Israel taking second place. In a typically colourful contest, Sweden sung about saunas, while Estonia shared a love of coffee. The UK’s entry from Remember Monday failed to pick up any votes from viewers despite fairing pretty well with the judges. Read full...
Mark Savage Music Correspondent Getty Images Yuval Raphael told the BBC she had practiced singing to the sound of people booing to prepare for Eurovision Israel has qualified for Eurovision’s grand final on Saturday, hours after protesters tried to disrupt the country’s dress rehearsal. Yuval Raphael, 24, was performing New Day Will Rise during a...
Getty Who will follow in the footsteps of Loreen and Nemo as the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest? The Eurovision Song Contest was watched by around 163 million people last year – meaning there are potentially 163 million different opinions on what makes a perfect entrant. Do you go for a soulful ballad, guaranteed...
Mark Savage Music Correspondent Alma Bengtsson Australia’s Go-Jo is one of 37 artists hoping to lift the Eurovision trophy in Basel, Switzerland The 2025 Eurovision Song Contest pops its cork on Sunday, with a “turquoise carpet” parade featuring competitors from all 37 nations. But the competition really begins on Tuesday, when the first semi-final will...
You might be able to explain your “insights into oral chemesthetic perception” to a group of chemistry professors – but can you dance it? Dr. Sulo Roukka from the University of Helsinki can and he’s won a prize to prove it. The Dance your PhD competition was founded in 2008 aims to make complex research...
Mark Savage Music Correspondent BBC Remember Monday in Iceland (L-R): Lauren Byrne, Holly-Anne Hull and Charlotte Steele The UK’s Eurovision hopefuls, Remember Monday, have covered a song from Will Ferrell’s cult movie about the contest, as the finals draw closer. The trio travelled to Iceland earlier this month to film their version of HúsavÃk (My...
Getty Images Clodagh Rodgers came fourth in Eurovision Clodagh Rodgers, who represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1971, has died at the age of 78. Rodgers, from Warrenpoint, County Down, came fourth with the song Jack In The Box. She was chosen to represent the UK at the contest being held...