Eurovision 2023

Post 39

This article from an open-access journal about European television history: https://viewjournal.eu/articles/10.18146...2.jethc013 tells me that the opening sentence in the earlier post, linked above, is mistaken..
UK wasn't one of the seven participants in the first event, but as I said in another post, membership of the European Broadcasting Union, not the EU, is crucial, nonetheless.
I've yet to read the whole article, but despite being from 2012, with many out of date YouTube links, it does still seem worth reading.
The website is glitchy right now, but wasn't when I first looked at it, a few days ago.

Again, following post 39, with my potted history of the music industry, via the Eurovision Song Contest, here's a nearly 7-hour Spotify playlist of Italo Disco: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQ...SSQdS5hnug which I've been listening to, on and off, for around a year.
Sadly, I'm not aware of there having been much of that genre in the contest.

I hadn't been listening to Spotify much, before last year, despite its being a standard app on the tablet I bought in late 2019, and although I saved a babeshow music playlist to my library, I've yet to listen to it at all.
The latter playlist was linked in the babeshow music thread, in 2020: https://www.babeshows.co.uk/showthread.p...pid2465843 where I posted from late 2020, to early 2021.

Malmo (in Sweden) will be the host city for next year’s Eurovision Song Contest in 2024.

https://www.ebu.ch/news/2023/07/malmo-ch...n-may-2024

They have a good football team there. Wonder if any will write songs as a nod to ABBA?

A few updates on Eurovision 2024. Firstly, the BBC will not work with TaP records to find the UK’s entry, but they will continue to collaborate closely with people “in the know” in the British music industry to find the UK’s entry, and the BBC are likely to continue with internal selection and not a national final. Secondly, the semi finals of the Eurovision Song Contest will be broadcast on BBC 1 in the future and not BBC 3 or 4.

https://twitter.com/superTV247/status/16...82153?s=20
https://twitter.com/superTV247/status/16...68969?s=20

Belgium are the first country to announce the artist (but not the song) that will represent them in next year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden in 2024.

https://eurovision.tv/story/belgium-anno...ision-2024

Today is September 1st 2023, and any song published from today onwards is eligible to be entered into next year’s Eurovision Song Contest in 2024, so keep your eyes and ears open.

https://eurovoix.com/2023/09/01/eurovisi...on-begins/

Two pieces of Eurovision news. Firstly, the BBC have fully confirmed the UK’s participation in next year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo in Sweden in 2024, and that both semi finals and the grand final will be broadcast on BBC One.

https://x.com/bbceurovision/status/17145...72799?s=20

Secondly, the BBC have revealed the UK’s entry for this year’s Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Nice in France on 26th November 2023 on BBC One and the CBBC Channel. The entry is a group called Stand Uniqu3 with the song entitled “Back To Life”.

https://youtu.be/6wLZNo2_-6c?feature=shared

France has won the 2023 Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Nice in France, the UK finished in 4th place one place better than last year. Here is the link to the show on BBC IPlayer.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001swrn

Yeah, I thought the "Back to Life" song was pretty good.