Category: Eurovision Song Contest 2010

Before ESC Insight launched in early 2011, I attended Oslo for Eurovision 2010.

The Olsen Brothers cast their Wings over Eurovision with a great covers album.

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Yes there’s a key change, yes they cover Abba, but there’s a lot to commend The Olsen Brother’s tribute to some of the great songs of Eurovision. There was something cuddly and ‘traditional’ to The Olsen Brothers, and that’s true now in the album, released during the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest in Denmark and then across Europe in the weeks after. It takes a bundle of memorable Eurovision songs (not always the winners) and mashes them up to such a degree that there’s more of The Olsen Brothers in these songs than the original artists. Which is what you need

Finding my way around Norway

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Sometimes you just need a good book and everything in one place. Before I head on any trip, I like to make sure of a few things – how to get from the airport or station into town and to the hotel, where the major points of interest for the tip are; how much is breakfast going to cost me; public transport and other little niggly things. Now it is possible to go online and find out all of this given time (and the airport links are usually on the Wikipedia page of said Airport), but instead of offering to

Analysing the UK Eurovision entry at The Stage

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Throughout the week in Oslo at Eurovision I’ve been doing an article a day for the Stage newspaper. The final piece was a look at the United Kingdom at Eurovision, and while some of it was a look back to the mistakes of 2010, it was mostly about looking forward and asking what now. In brief… Decide if you [the BBC] want to try again. Look in the mirror and say “the problem is us”. We failed because the song we put on stage was rubbish. Don’t coast to a song, make a decision and be proactive. Realise you are