Ireland – After their disappointing result in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest 2012, Jedward have affirmed that they will not return to the Eurovision Song Contest. The twins told the Mirror: “I think we’ll leave it to somebody else to do it next year. We’ll leave it to a new artist out there who [...]
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United Kingdom: Englebert hosts Sabina and Jedward
Posted: May 23, 2012 by hulluna in Azerbaijan, Eurovision Song Contest 2012, Ireland, United KingdomUnited Kingdom – The BBC today hosted a press event which saw Englebert Humperdinck get together with Azerbaijan’s Sabina, and then Ireland’s Jedward. ‘The Hump’ chatted to the Irish twins about their trademark hair and wore a jedhead. Eurovision Times was there to capture the moment ‘Jenglebert’ was born. Watch the video now.
Eurovision 2012: Big 4 for Open Air Concert
Posted: May 22, 2012 by hulluna in Eurovision Song Contest 2012, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, SpainEurovision 2012 – Good morning from sunny Baku! It’s semifinal 1 day but acts that are not involved are busy doing other things in the beautiful city of Baku. The Eurovillage is hosting lots of musical events, and there are DJs and live acts keeping the party going there on the promenade each day until [...]
Eurovision 2012: Today’s Rehearsals SF1
Posted: May 18, 2012 by hulluna in Austria, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Moldova, RussiaEurovision 2012 – Today saw the resumption of rehearsals by acts in both semifinals. Russia kicked off this morning. They got a huge round of applause in the press conference where journalists were watching on the big screen. They’d also brought a large cut out of themselves where you could put your face in and [...]
Eurovision 2012: Second Day of Rehearsals Completed
Posted: May 14, 2012 by hulluna in Austria, Cyprus, Denmark, Eurovision Song Contest 2012, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Moldova, Russia, San MarinoEurovision 2012 – Another day’s rehearsals have taken place at the Crystal Hall and reports coming through from Baku say the Russian grannies put on a good first performance, and Ireland had a nice fountain. Israel, San Marino, Cyprus, Hungary, Denmark, Austria and Moldova have also rehearsed. Pasha for Moldova got a bit racy.
Ireland: Linda Martin Looks at Eurovisions Past and Future
Posted: April 8, 2012 by hulluna in Eurovision Song Contest 2012, Eurovision Through the Years, Former participants, IrelandIreland – Eurovision often welcomes back former entrants. This year sees Linda Martin involved again as a mentor of the Irish entry. Linda narrowly lost in 1984 but went on to win in 1992. She has just been interviewed talking about some of her memories from former Song Contests, and she looks ahead to Baku [...]
Ireland – Irish hopefuls, Jedward, today revealed they’d had Eurovision tattoos… but are they real or is it just a publicity stunt? Revealing the Eurovision logo tattoos in a video on Muzu.tv, John Grimes opted for his tattoo on his right arm, whilst younger twin, Edward Grimes, had his completed on the back of his [...]
Ireland – Another video that was released this week is Jedward‘s ‘Waterline‘ video. It is made up of video footage from their national final, and includes rehearsals, the performance on the night, backstage footage and celebrating with fans. This apparently will not be their official video for the song, but is the official video for [...]
Ireland: Jedward to Represent Ireland for Second Year Running
Posted: February 25, 2012 by hulluna in IrelandIreland – Dublin’s Eurosong has sent the Jedward twins back to Eurovision for the second year running. After finishing 8th last year in Dusseldorf with ‘Lipstick‘ the Dublin duo easily won the Irish national final again this year. They will perform the pop song ‘Waterline’ in Baku, which was written by Nick Jarl and Sharon [...]
Ireland – National broadcaster RTE have finally revealed the five songs that will compete in the Eurosong final on the Late Late Eurovision Special show on in Dublin 24th February.The five songs were played on the Derek Mooney show, which began with a look back at Ireland’s success in the contest over the years. You [...]
Ireland – The Irish Independent has today revealed more details about the zany twins’ entry for Eurovision this year. The newspaper exclusively announced this morning that pop duo Jedward have enlisted the help of a top Westlife songwriter. Swede Nick Jarl has written tracks for the last four albums by the million- selling Irish [...]
Ireland: Song Titles Revealed and Lordi Invited to Dublin.
Posted: February 5, 2012 by hulluna in IrelandAccording to the ESCNation messageboard, the song titles for the 5 Irish Eurosong entries have been revealed. The songs are due to be heard for the first time on RTE Radio 1 on Thursday afternoon. Are these correct though? RTE have also apparently asked Finnish winners Lordi to appear at the Eurosong final on February [...]
Ireland – The final two remaining entries for Ireland’s national final, Eurosong, appear to have been revealed. Joining the previously announced Una Gibney & David Shannon, Jedward and Donna McCaul in the national final to be shown on RTE’s The Late Late Show on February 24th ,will be Maria McCool and Andrew Mann.
Ireland: Una Gibney and David Shannon In Eurosong
Posted: January 28, 2012 by eurovisiontimes in IrelandIreland – The Irish Times has revealed the third participant in the Irish national final for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. A duo consisting of Una Gibney and David Shannon will compete against Jedward and Donna McCauld for the Irish ticket to Baku. The duo will me mentored by show business agent Julian Benson. [...]
Ireland – The Irish national broadcaster RTÉ is expected to soon solve the mystery concerning the participants of the Irish national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. The broadcaster, shall announce the five competitors on February 9, during the radio program Mooney. One of them will have the honor of flying the Irish [...]
Austria – Ireland’s Jedward have reviewed all of the Austrian finalists in an interview for ORF’s programme Chili. The twins, who represented their country in Dusseldorf last year with “Lipstick” found it hard to focus for a while due to Conchita Wurst having a beard. So who did the Irish brothers choose as their [...]
Ireland – The hyperactive twins from Ireland, Jedward, have been telling Austrian-based HitRadio how they hope to go to Baku as Ireland’s representatives again this year. The interview was filmed when the brothers were visiting the radio station this week whilst on their European tour. The quiff-haired pair said that they’d heard Austria was [...]
Ireland – Jedward reached half a million twitter followers recently and to celebrate this achievement they decided to show their devoted fans some skin. We advise non-Jedward fans to think at least twice before watching this video! Jedward will compete in the Irish national final this year trying to return to Eurovision for the second [...]
Ireland – The Irish Independent newspaper has reported that hundreds of Irish Eurovision fans will not be making the trip to Baku this year due to high prices. Keith Mills, of the Irish wesbite, All Kinds of Everything, is quoted as saying, “There were 500 Irish supporters at the Eurovision in Dusseldorf, we’ll be [...]
Ireland – Irish twins, Jedward, yesterday revealed to fans that they will be recording their entry for Eurovision 2012 this week. Speaking to fans at the Olympia Theatre, where the twins are today finishing their sold-out pantomime season, Edward Grimes told fans that the recording of the track will take place on Wednesday in [...]
Ireland – Mentor Linda Martin has revealed that Jedward are looking for male backing singers this year to help them try and land a repeat visit to the Eurovision Song Contest. Speaking in today’s Irish newspaper The Herald, former Eurovision winner Ms Martin confirmed that the song had finally been chosen, and now they needed [...]
Ireland: Donna McCaul Faces Jedward in Eurosong
Posted: January 5, 2012 by eurovisiontimes in IrelandIreland – Donna McCaul, one part of the duo Donna & Joe which represented Ireland in the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest has revealed that she will compete against Jedward at the upcoming Irish national final “Eurosong”. Donna posted on her facebook wall “Ok guys i have been chosen as one of the 5 acts [...]
Ireland – After yesterday’s news that a Linda Martin twitter imposter had upset Irish pop singer Sinead O’Connor, the Irish Mirror has reported today that Ms O’Connor has publicly apologised to the former Eurovision winner saying “Sorry Linda Martin.. I thought it was u. Am a touchy little bitch. I’m sorry for hurt caused.“ Sinead had [...]
Ireland – As time runs out on the Emerald Isle, there’s still little sign of anyone credible competition coming forward to take on the runaway favourites, Jedward, for this year’s national Irish selection event, Eurosong to be held on February 24th 2012. The energetic twins are still the only confirmed entry for the live [...]
Ireland: Linda Martin Calls in Police over Twitter Imposter
Posted: January 3, 2012 by hulluna in IrelandIreland – According to today’s Daily Mirror in Ireland, former Eurovision winner Linda Martin last night called the Gardai (The Irish police) after a Twitter imposter using her name sent a string of abusive messages to singer Sinead O’Connor. O’Connor, who has just ended her 16-day marriage, responded on Twitter believing the messages had come [...]
Ireland: Sharon Condon Also Scared of Jedward
Posted: December 30, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in IrelandIreland – Sharon Condon has told the Irish newspaper “The Herald” that she turned down an offer to compete against Jedward in the Irish national final “Eurosong 2012″. After last year’s runner-up Nikki Kavanagh (“Jedward will walk it“), the former Wonderwall singer is the second artist to announce they are not willing to compete [...]
Irleand: Barbarellas To Compete Against Jedward?
Posted: December 27, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in IrelandIreland – Jedward have been known to compete in next year’s Eurosong for quite some time, now the competition is starting to gear up. As ESCFlashMalta reports, the duo Barbarella will most probably participate in the Irish national final and could be an actual threat to Jedward’s plan to return to the Eurovision stage. [...]
Eurovision Recap (28)
Posted: December 19, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in Eurovision Song Contest 2012, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, SwedenRecap – With the Eurovision season getting into full swing once more, we will use our well-tried “Eurovision recap” to keep you updated about rather minor news from the Eurovision Song Contest world. This time we have calls for songs from Belgium and Georgia, new videos by Eric Saade, Poli Genova, Kate Ryan and [...]
Jedward: The UK’s Only Chance to Win Eurovision Is Us Representing It
Posted: December 14, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in IrelandIreland – In an interview with the website STV.tv, Jedward have suggested that the only way the United Kingdom will ever win Eurovision again is if they represent them. They added that Swedes might also want them representing their country. Speaking about their experiences at Eurovision, Edward said: “I think representing Ireland at Eurovision [...]
