Ode to Milim

The most beautiful Israeli entry for the Eurovision Song Contest ever was selected in March 2010, approximately six months after my father passed away rather suddenly. I was nineteen years old, a journalism student who still lived at home with his mother. Her grieving process had a few jagged edges…. »

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Who wins the Eurostory Best Lyrics Award 2019? [poll!]

Onwards! Onwards! Every year the Eurovision Song Contest is professionalizing a bit more. And we try to give a little push as well, by  crowning the best lyrics – to the writers of which we hand (for the fourth year in a row) the Eurostory Best Lyrics Award. Last year’s… »

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Abba: all the cover art but different

Maarten Vande Wiele published the graphic novel Abba looking for Frida in 2015. For the book presentation he made a small exhibition of the cover art for twenty of Abba’s singles, in his own interpretation. For all of those that were not present: Eurostory shows them below. Staring with Waterloo,… »

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Will you be a Eurovision history professor?

Sure – all the songs have been chosen, and sure, Duncan Laurence is prepping us Dutchies for a nice Eurovision edition (oh, we love all the other entries as well!), but THIS is the beginning of this year’s Eurostory season. And to mark our fourth year we present an illustration,… »

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Duncan Laurence’s ARCADE – a closer look

Duncan Laurence will be singing Arcade for The Netherlands in the grand arena of Eurovision 2019. What was it again that the Dutch representative Waylon said last year? ‘Participating in the Song Contest is the musical version of participating in the Olympic Games.’ One could argue that Waylon’s years of experience… »

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Blanche: uncut diamond from Brussels

Paradiso, Amsterdam, November 27th 2018

She came fourth at the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest. Afterwards City lights made its way to many European music charts and Blanche even won the European Border Breakers Award. Then it got silent, for more than a year and a half. Until late November 2018, when she kicked off her tour… »

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Kristian Kostov: Shower Thoughts

The most beautiful lines of his 2018 EP

We’ve come to know Kristian Kostov from a groundbreaking runner-up position for Bulgaria in the 2017 Song Contest. The singer, who was seventeen at the time, performed his Beautiful Mess in an astonishingly convincing and surprisingly professional way. He was given an EBBA Award, handed out to young artists who… »

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Israel: the compact Netta-encyclopaedia

She is without doubt the most colourful winner Eurovision ever saw: Netta Barzilai (1993) from Israel. With her song Toy she has managed to make many, many viewers dance. So we’ve created a concise encyclopaedia. Choose the headwords you find interesting, and take a step inside Nettaland. A-ba-ni-bi Netta’s favourite… »

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Ireland: A Tale of Two Boys

Two boys are leaving the pub. It’s cold outside, so one of them waits in the door opening to put on his scarf. They walk. It had been raining until a few minutes ago, the streets are glistening in the light of the lanterns, pubs and shop windows. It’s quite… »

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Czech Republic: Mikolas Josef talks to us about writing and reading

Can we talk about the lyrics of your song? Cool, I like that. Let’s get to it! Well, first question: what line do you like most? I was in the studio recording this and the moment I did: ‘I know you bop-whop-a-lu-bop on his wood bamboo’ and the sound engineer… »

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