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Not your average Eurovision podcast since 2016. In our 10th and FINAL year! Season Six - The 60s! Episode 108 - 1960 OUT NOW! Hosted by @danietreg.bsky.social & @darthtempus.bsky.social windmachinepodcast.com
Wow! She’d be pretty damn close!
12.02.2026 15:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The 10th and FINAL year of WMP begins!
Episode 108 - 1960: “Norway’s Debut, Catherine?, and A Bad Boyfriend” is now available in all the spots including our website windmachinepodcast.com
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/w...
Image description: on a psychedelic swirl background in pinks and purples, large purple/blue bubble text ringed in black reads the episode number, large pink bubble text ringed in black reads the year, and smaller white bubble text ringed in black reads the episode title. Under all that in the middle bottom is the podcast logo with the modern flags of Eurovision
Episode 108 - 1960: “Norway’s Debut, Catherine?, and A Bad Boyfriend” is coming very soon!
10.02.2026 14:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🇦🇹 Harry Winter "Du hast mich so fasziniert" 🇧🇪 Fud Leclerc "Mon amour pour toi" 🇩🇰 Katy Bødtger "Det var en yndig tid" 🇫🇷 Jacqueline Boyer "Tom Pillibi" 🇩🇪 Wyn Hoop "Bonne nuit ma chérie" 🇮🇹 Renato Rascel "Romantica" 🇱🇺 Camillo Felgen "So laang we's du do bast" 🇲🇨 François Deguelt"Ce soir-là" 🇳🇱 Rudi Carrell "Wat een geluk" 🇳🇴 Nora Brockstedt "Voi-voi" 🇸🇪 Siw Malmkvist "Alla andra får varann" 🇨🇭 Anita Traversi "Cielo e terra" 🇬🇧 Bryan Johnson"Looking High, High, High" Image description: on a psychedelic swirl background in blue, pink, lime green, and yellow, 13 vinyl single covers are scattered with our logo with all the modern flags of Eurovision in the centre with green bubble text with black border that reads 1960 underneath
Episode 108: 1960 will be out soon! Out of these 13 songs, which do you think will make our Top 10?
07.02.2026 07:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
1. Elvis Presley - It's Now or Never 2. Crash Craddock - Boom Boom Baby 3. Jim Reeves - He'll Have to Go 4. Elvis Presley - Are You Lonesome Tonight? / I Gotta Know 5. The Beau Marks - Clap Your Hands 6. Jimmie Rodgers - Just a Closer Walk with Thee 7. The Drifters - Save the Last Dance for Me 8. R*lf H*rris - Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport 9. Emile Ford and The Checkmates - What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For? 10. Lonnie Donegan - My Old Man's a Dustman Image description: on a gold, light blue, and yellow psychedelic swirl background, text reads Australian Top Ten Songs of 1960 in blue bubble font and black outline, ten vinyl single covers are scattered over the image with two vinyl icons the bottom left corner and our logo with the modern flags of Eurovision in the bottom right corner
Episode 108 is coming soon! Before we do that, check out the Top Ten songs on the Australian charts for 1960
03.02.2026 10:48 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Image description: on a psychedelic swirl background in pinks and greens, B&W photo of the start of The Hollywood Walk of Fame, first editions of “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee and “Green Eggs And Ham” by Dr Seuss, the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle with the headline “Kennedy Wins”, a US postage stamp with the new flag with 50 stars with the date July 4 1960 costing 4c, the 1960 flag of Cyprus, the movie poster of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” with Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins featured, a B&W still of The Flintstones, a B&W photo of Elvis Presley returning from Germany, the first Etch A Sketch drawing toy, Time Magazine cover with illustrations of space shuttles and the title “Rush Hour In Space - US and Russia Take Different Roads”, 1960 in purple bubble text and black outline, the single of “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini” by Brian Hyland with a vinyl graphic in black, the logo for ESC 1960, and our logo with the modern flags of Eurovision
Welcome to the 10th (and final) year of Wind Machine Podcast! Let’s finish what we started! Episode 108 - 1960 is coming soon.
30.01.2026 08:52 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Episode 107- 1963: “A Snub, The Magic Of Television, and A Beloved Friend” is now available in all the spots including our website windmachinepodcast.com
(1963 review starts approx 10 mins in)
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/w...
Image description: on a psychedelic swirl background in pinks and purples, large purple/blue bubble text ringed in black reads the episode number, large pink bubble text ringed in black reads the year, and smaller white bubble text ringed in black reads the episode title. Under all that in the middle bottom is the podcast logo with the modern flags of Eurovision
Episode 107- 1963: “A Snub, The Magic Of Television, and A Beloved Friend” is coming New Year’s Eve!
29.12.2025 03:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🇦🇹 Carmela Corren "Vielleicht geschieht ein Wunder" 🇧🇪 Jacques Raymond "Waarom?" 🇩🇰 Grethe and Jørgen Ingmann "Dansevise" 🇫🇮 Laila Halme "Muistojeni laulu" 🇫🇷 Alain Barrière "Elle était si jolie" 🇩🇪 Heidi Brühl "Marcel" 🇮🇹 Emilio Pericoli "Uno per tutte" 🇱🇺 Nana Mouskouri “À force de prier" 🇲🇨 Françoise Hardy "L'amour s'en va" 🇳🇱 Annie Palmen "Een speeldoos" 🇳🇴 Anita Thallaug "Solhverv" 🇪🇸 José Guardiola "Algo prodigioso" 🇸🇪 Monica Zetterlund "En gång i Stockholm" 🇨🇭 Esther Ofarim "T'en va pas" 🇬🇧 Ronnie Carroll "Say Wonderful Things" YU Vice Vukov "Brodovi" Image description: on a psychedelic swirl background in blue, pink, lime green, and yellow, 16 vinyl single covers are scattered with our logo with all the modern flags of Eurovision in the centre with green bubble text with black border that reads 1963 underneath
Episode 107: 1963 will be out soon! Out of these 16 songs, which do you think will make our Top 10?
27.12.2025 04:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
1. The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand 2. The Beatles - She Loves You 3. Bill Justis - Tamoure 4. Ned Miller - From a Jack to a King 5. Chantays - Pipeline 6. Paul and Paula - Hey Paula 7. Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs - Sugar Shack 8. Little Peggy March - I Will Follow Him 9. Elvis Presley - Return to Sender 10. Johnny O'Keefe - Move Baby Move / You'll Never Cherish a Love So True Image description: on a gold, light blue, and yellow psychedelic swirl background, text reads Australian Top Ten Songs of 1963 in blue bubble font and black outline, ten vinyl single covers are scattered over the image with two vinyl icons the bottom left corner and our logo with the modern flags of Eurovision in the bottom right corner
Episode 107 is coming soon! Before we do that, check out the Top Ten songs on the Australian charts for 1963!
24.12.2025 01:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Image description: on a psychedelic swirl background in pinks and greens, the movie poster of “The Great Escape” with Steve McQueen depicted on a motorbike jumping barbed wire fence, headline of The Dallas Morning Herald “Kennedy Slain on Dallas Street, Johnson becomes President”, the single “The End of The World” by Skeeter Davis and a vinyl graphic in black, Marvel comics of X Men, The Amazing Spider-Man, and The Avengers, B&W photo of Patsy Kline, B&W of William Hartnell the first Doctor Who, B&W photo of Martin Luther King, the Porsche 911 in off-white, the first line of Lava Lamps in various colours, an advertisement for new TAB cola drink, B&W photo of Malcolm X, the first Philips cassette recorder with mic and two tapes, 1963 in purple bubble text and black outline, the logo of Eurovision 1963 with musical notes and flags, Time Magazine cover with the US representative Averell Harriman for Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and a banner that reads “Beyond the Nuclear Agreement”, and logo with the modern flags of Eurovision
Episode 107 - 1963 is coming soon.
Quick reminder to read our statement before getting into the comments. Don’t make us tap the sign!
Hi there. For the last 9 years, we have prided ourselves on maintaining that the Eurovision Song Contest IS and HAS ALWAYS BEEN political. Eurovision does not exist in a vacuum. It has always been shaped by the world around it and we have based our whole podcast series on this. We always have been, and will continue to be, critical of the State of Israel and other nations and groups who commit atrocities and lie through propaganda. We do not shy away from bringing you the news of the year for EVERY Eurovision year. If something significant happened during that time, WE WILL talk about it. To that end, in order to complete the picture of the Eurovision Song Contest over its 70 year run, we will still be releasing the last handful of episodes that cover the 1960s and 1950s era of the contest. We will then end our podcast journey with a final episode sometime in 2026 - our 10 year anniversary. With that said, we WILL NOT be covering Eurovision 2026. There will be no preview or debrief episode. Mark will not be doing Eurovision 2026 reaction videos on YouTube. We are also not attending the contest in Vienna in protest.
We refuse to buy into this current false narrative of “United by Music” while the EBU washes its hands of geopolitical events - namely the continued deaths of innocents in Gaza, including many young children and the continued forced displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank. This is now simply too big to ignore. The EBU cannot hide behind a ‘song contest’ to absolve itself of any culpability. The current director, Martin Green, has admitted that Eurovision can be a tool for countries to demonstrate who they are. And Israel has certainly done that these past few years. Its government has interfered multiple times, influencing not only a large voting bloc against the spirit of the contest, but also directly using its President to ensure direct support. If the contest is supposed to be apolitical, then no government official, let alone its President should be involved in any capacity. We also believe that the lack of punishment of KAN and the Israeli government for this blatant disregard for the contest and the manipulation of televotes has brought Eurovision as it is now into disrepute. Rule changes or not, there will be ways around it and it will be found. It will only end when Israel wins the contest again so they can finally be satisfied that in this current climate “Europe loves Israel”. That’s the end goal of its so called “hasbara.”
We wholly blame the EBU for their lack of leadership and integrity when it comes to recognising that they cannot escape politics and for pretending the outside world doesn’t change the landscape of the contest. We blame them for acquiescing to Israel’s deliberate political interference in the last few months that saw any vote on Israel’s future participation castrated before it any had any chance happening. Make no mistake, that was a deliberate choice. To our listeners - if you want to leave us as you are boycotting all things Eurovision, you have every right to and we thank you for being here. If you want to stick around and learn about history and how it relates to older Eurovisions, we’ll still be here. We feel it is necessary to look at the past to understand the now. Warts and all. War and all. WMP
This is how we are choosing to move forward.
It’s ALWAYS been political.
Episode 106 - 1961: “A Garden Party, Introductions, and The Taboo Lovers” is now available in all the spots including our website windmachinepodcast.com
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/w...
Image description: on a psychedelic swirl background in pinks and purples, large purple/blue bubble text ringed in black reads the episode number, large pink bubble text ringed in black reads the year, and smaller white bubble text ringed in black reads the episode title. Under all that in the middle bottom is the podcast logo with the modern flags of Eurovision
Episode 106 - 1961: “A Garden Party, Introductions, and The Taboo Lovers” is coming very soon!
15.11.2025 08:58 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🇦🇹 Jimmy Makulis "Sehnsucht" 🇧🇪 Bob Benny "September, gouden roos" 🇩🇰 Dario Campeotto "Angelique" 🇫🇮 Laila Kinnunen "Valoa ikkunassa" 🇫🇷 Jean-Paul Mauric "Printemps (avril carillonne)" 🇩🇪 Lale Andersen "Einmal sehen wir uns wieder" 🇮🇹 Betty Curtis "Al di là" 🇱🇺 Jean-Claude Pascal "Nous les amoureux" 🇲🇨 Colette Deréal "Allons, allons les enfants" 🇳🇱 Greetje Kauffeld "Wat een dag" 🇳🇴 Nora Brockstedt "Sommer i Palma" 🇪🇸 Conchita Bautista "Estando contigo" 🇸🇪 Lill-Babs "April, april" 🇨🇭 Franca di Rienzo "Nous aurons demain" 🇬🇧 The Allisons "Are You Sure?" YU Ljiljana Petrović "Neke davne zvezde" Image description: on a psychedelic swirl background in blue, pink, lime green, and yellow, 16 vinyl single covers are scattered with our logo with all the modern flags of Eurovision in the centre with green bubble text with black border that reads 1961 underneath
Episode 106: 1961 will be out soon! Out of these 16 songs, which do you think will make our Top 10?
11.11.2025 09:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
1. Eddie Hodges - I'm Gonna Knock on Your Door 2. Del Shannon - Runaway 3. Elvis Presley - Wooden Heart 4. Ricky Nelson - Hello Mary Lou 5. Charlie Drake - My Boomerang Won't Come Back 6. Andy Stewart - A Scottish Soldier 7. Johnny O'Keefe - I'm Counting on You 8. Bert Kaempfert and His Orchestra - Wonderland by Night 9. Ferrante and Teicher - Theme from Exodus 10. Roy Orbison - Crying / Candy Man Image description: on a gold, light blue, and yellow psychedelic swirl background, text reads Australian Top Ten Songs of 1961 in blue bubble font and black outline, ten vinyl single covers are scattered over the image with two vinyl icons the bottom left corner and our logo with the modern flags of Eurovision in the bottom right corner
Episode 106 is coming soon! Before we do that, check out the Top Ten songs on the Australian charts for 1961!
06.11.2025 06:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Image description: on a psychedelic swirl background in pinks and greens, the movie poster of “West Side Story” in red with black text, a black and white photo of Ham the chimpanzee in a capsule wearing a NASA hat, a black and white photo of the scoreboard of a VFL match between Richmond 0 8 8 and St Kilda 12 19 91, a colour photo of a yellow and green tram on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the original box for the game “Slip ‘n Slide”, a black and white photo of ex Soviet dancer Rudolf Nureyev, a Time Magazine cover with an illustration of astronaut Yuri Gagarin, a black and white photo of The Berlin Wall, the first boxed Ken Doll, the logo of ESC 1961 with red text plus gold design on a white background, 1961 in purple bubble text and black outline, first edition of the book “Catch 22” by Joseph Heller, the single “Hit The Road Jack” by Ray Charles and a vinyl graphic in black, and our logo with the modern flags of Eurovision
Episode 106 - 1961 is coming soon!
02.11.2025 05:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Episode 105 - 1965: “Ireland’s Arrival, Backstage Slapping, and Singing Dolls” is now available in all the spots including our website windmachinepodcast.com
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/w...
Image description: on a psychedelic swirl background in pinks and purples, large purple/blue bubble text ringed in black reads the episode number, large pink bubble text ringed in black reads the year, and smaller white bubble text ringed in black reads the episode title. Under all that in the middle bottom is the podcast logo with the modern flags of Eurovision
Episode 105 - 1965: “Ireland’s Arrival, Backstage Slapping, and Singing Dolls” is coming very soon!
21.09.2025 13:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🇦🇹 "Sag ihr, ich lass sie grüßen" 🇧🇪 "Als het weer lente is" 🇩🇰 "For din skyld" 🇫🇮 "Aurinko laskee länteen" 🇫🇷 “N'avoue jamais" 🇩🇪 "Paradies, wo bist du?” 🇮🇪 "I'm Walking the Streets in the Rain" 🇮🇹 "Se piangi, se ridi" 🇱🇺 "Poupée de cire, poupée de son" 🇲🇨 "Va dire à l'amour" 🇳🇱 "Het is genoeg" 🇳🇴 "Karusell" 🇵🇹 "Sol de inverno" 🇪🇸 "Qué bueno, qué bueno" 🇸🇪 "Absent Friend" 🇨🇭 "Non, à jamais sans toi" 🇬🇧 "I Belong" YU "Čežnja" Image description: on a psychedelic swirl background in blue, pink, lime green, and yellow, 18 vinyl single covers are scattered with our logo with all the modern flags of Eurovision in the centre with green bubble text with black border that reads 1965 underneath
Episode 105: 1965 will be out soon! Out of these 18 songs, which do you think will make our Top 10?
17.09.2025 10:13 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
1. Normie Rowe - Que Sera, Sera / Shakin’ All Over 2. The Seekers - The Carnival Is Over 3. The Beatles - Help! 4. The Beatles - Rock And Roll Music / Honey Don’t 5. Elvis Presley - Crying In The Chapel 6. The Seekers - I’ll Never Find Another You 7. Julie Rogers - The Wedding 8. Rolling Stones - Under The Boardwalk / Walking The Dog 9. Herman’s Hermits - Mrs Brown, You’ve Got A Lovely Daughter 10. The Beatles - Ticket to Ride Image description: on a gold, light blue, and yellow psychedelic swirl background, text reads Australian Top Ten Songs of 1965 in blue bubble font and black outline, ten vinyl single covers are scattered over the image with two vinyl icons the bottom left corner and our logo with the modern flags of Eurovision in the bottom right corner
Episode 105 is coming soon! Before we do that, check out the Top Ten songs on the Australian charts for 1965
13.09.2025 10:01 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our next episode covering Eurovision 1965 is coming soon… BUT!
The Eurovision Podcrawl continues with 2012 by Douze Points!
You can listen here ⤵️
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Image description: on a psychedelic swirl background in pinks and greens, the single “Turn Turn Turn” by The Byrds and a vinyl graphic in black, Time Magazine cover with soldiers depicted with the title “The Turning Point in Viet Nam”, Jean Shrimpton in a short white dress, the movie poster for Doctor Zhivago, The Sun Newspaper with the headline “Troops to Vietnam”, Canada’s new flag with red maple leaf as designed by George Stanley, the illegal corned beef sandwich that went on Gemini 3 in a small glass case, the logo for Eurovision 1965 in white and gold, a black and white photo of missing teenagers Christine Sharrock and Marianne Schmidt, the first edition of the game Operation, 1965 in purple bubble text and black outline, first edition of the book Dune by Frank Herbert, The March Of Progress / The Road To Homo Sapiens illustration by Rudolph Zallinger, and our logo with the modern flags of Eurovision
Episode 105 - 1965, is coming soon!
08.09.2025 12:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hi! 👋
We’re currently finishing up our The Last Five… series on Youtube and starting work on episode 105 - 1965…
BUT here’s the next stop on the podcrawl with @thateurosite.bsky.social covering 1964!! ⤵️
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14.08.2025 12:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Next stop on the Eurovision Podcrawl is @12pointsusa.bsky.social with 1987!
12.08.2025 02:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Episode 104 - 1964: “Missing Pieces, A Protest, and She Was Too Young But Also Old Enough” is now available in all the spots including our website windmachinepodcast.com
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/w...
Image description: on a psychedelic swirl background in pinks and purples, large purple/blue bubble text ringed in black reads the episode number, large pink bubble text ringed in black reads the year, and smaller white bubble text ringed in black reads the episode title. Under all that in the middle bottom is the podcast logo with the modern flags of Eurovision
Episode 104 - 1964: “Missing Pieces, A Protest, and She Was Too Young But Also Old Enough” is coming very soon!
04.08.2025 14:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oooh! Spiral is fantastic!!
03.08.2025 09:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🇦🇹 Udo Jürgens "Warum nur, warum?" 🇧🇪 Robert Cogoi "Près de ma rivière" 🇩🇰 Bjørn Tidmand "Sangen om dig" 🇫🇮 Lasse Mårtenson "Laiskotellen" 🇫🇷 Rachel "Le Chant de Mallory" 🇩🇪 Nora Nova "Man gewöhnt sich so schnell an das Schöne" 🇮🇹 Gigliola Cinquetti "Non ho l'età" 🇱🇺 Hugues Aufray "Dès que le printemps revient" 🇲🇨 Romuald "Où sont-elles passées" 🇳🇱 Anneke Grönloh "Jij bent mijn leven" 🇳🇴 Arne Bendiksen "Spiral" 🇵🇹 António Calvário "Oração" 🇪🇸 Nelly with Tim and Tony "Caracola" 🇨🇭 Anita Traversi "I miei pensieri" 🇬🇧 Matt Monro "I Love the Little Things" YU Sabahudin Kurt "Život je sklopio krug" Image description: on a psychedelic swirl background in blue, pink, lime green, and yellow, 16 vinyl single covers are scattered with our logo with all the modern flags of Eurovision in the centre with green bubble text with black border that reads 1964 underneath
Episode 104: 1964 will be out soon! Out of these 16 songs, which do you think will make our Top 10?
02.08.2025 07:22 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
