We're heading into the commentary box on this week's The Contest & Me 📺
Mikko Silvennoinen gives us a behind the scenes look at life as Finland's Eurovision commentator 🇫🇮
New episode available from midnight! 🎙️
Whether you like the new #Eurovision identity or not, I hope you’ll hop on over to @eurotrippodcast.com to find out everything you need to know about it.
Rob and I have worked our socks off this morning to bring you the best coverage we possibly can (as we always do 🥹)
...have you missed us? 👀
The Contest & Me returns this Wednesday as we meet more of Eurovision's most iconic fans 💫
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🚨 NEW: A spokesperson for the EBU has confirmed to me #Eurovision organisers will “look into” alleged Israeli Government sponsored adverts on the official Grand Final live stream on YouTube
🆕 Here’s everything you need to know about the new Semi-Final qualifier announcement process
#Eurovision
That’s very kind. Hope to have you with us for our coverage next week 🤞
Thanks David. I’m looking forward to finding out just as much as you are
🚨 MORE: Reto and Moritz have also confirmed that the new Semi-Final qualifier announcement process is going ahead
🗣️ "Until now, we have the green light"
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🚨 NEW: #Eurovision Co-Executive Producers Reto Peritz & Moritz Stadler have spoken about Celine Dion's appearance
🗣️ "It would be possible Celine Dion is in Basel, but will not make it to the main venue"
🎧 Hear my full interview with them on @eurotrippodcast.com at 5pm BST
I spoke to a #Eurovision winner for @eurotrippodcast.com today 🏆
You’ll hear it on one of our daily episodes from Basel 🎧
Hopefully we can make it feel like you’re there 🤞
🎙️ I’m very excited to be heading to #Eurovision with @eurotrippodcast.com once again
🇨🇭Join us in May for daily episodes (and so much more 👀) from Basel, as we bring you the best coverage of the contest
Head of Contest Christer Björkman teasing some spectacular staging details 👀
Who do you think will be flying during their #Eurovision performance in Basel?
🇬🇧 NEW: Colin Berry, the UK's #Eurovision spokesperson for 25 years, has passed away at the age of 79
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: One of the artists at this year’s #Eurovision Song Contest will fly during their live performance, Head of Contest Christer Björkman tells @eurotrippodcast.com
🗣️ “There’s a few flying things this year, people for example” eurotrippodcast.com/2025/04/17/a...
🎙️ A pleasure to speak to both Sissal and Sergio Jaen for this week's @eurotrippodcast.com
🎧 I hope you enjoy listening to the conversations as much as I did having them
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🇨🇾 EXCLUSIVE: Sergio Jaen has teased details of Theo Evan's 'difficult' #Eurovision staging
🗣️ "I don’t think every artist is capable of doing what he’s going to do on stage" eurotrippodcast.com/2025/04/09/i...
🇩🇰 Sissal being a chaotic queen for 43 seconds
#Eurovision
🇨🇭 This was a lot of fun to record. If you’re off to Basel for #Eurovision in May, today’s episode gives you a little flavour of what you can expect from the city
🎟️ Tickets may become available in the coming weeks. Fans with tickets who are unable to attend can sell on Ticketcorner’s reselling platform fanSALE.ch at the original ticket prices
🎟️ NEW: The second wave of tickets for all nine #Eurovision shows this May sold out in just 22 minutes earlier today
🇬🇧 EXCLUSIVE: Remember Monday are heading out on a huge #Eurovision promotion tour next week, and their record label manager has some ambitious aims for the group
🗣️ "We don’t just want to do well. We want to win this competition"
eurotrippodcast.com/2025/03/26/r...
Shitting it.
🇨🇭 NEW: Switzerland has been drawn to perform in 19th in the #Eurovision Grand Final in May
🇬🇧 What we learned from Remember Monday's exclusive feature-length interview with
@eurotrippodcast.com
🤫 It was the worst-kept secret… even for them
✍️ BBC set up #Eurovision songwriting sessions
🎭 The staging will be "theatrical"
Click here to read more! ⤵️
eurotrippodcast.com/2025/03/08/w...
📻 I’ll be on BBC Radio 5 Live before 5pm talking about Remember Monday and #Eurovision
Trumpeting… Very good 😉
Having now added the UK to his list, Thomas Stengaard is now outright second on the list of most countries written for at #Eurovision with seven: 🇩🇰 🇩🇪 🇸🇲 🇨🇾 🇦🇿 🇦🇹 🇬🇧
Thomas G:son unsurprisingly holds the record of nine countries: 🇸🇪 🇪🇸 🇳🇴 🇩🇰 🇬🇪 🇨🇾 🇲🇹 🇫🇷 🇦🇲
🇬🇧 Tom Hollings and Sam Brennan from the duo Billen Ted also appear on the credits of What The Hell Just Happened?
They both have #Eurovision experience having written Embers with James Newman in 2021
🇬🇧 What The Hell Just Happened? was written by Remember Monday members Charlotte Steele, Holly-Anne Hull and Lauren Byrne
+ #Eurovision winning songwriter Thomas Stengaard (🇩🇰 2013 🏆, 🇨🇾 2021, 🇦🇹 2024)
+ Julie ‘Kill J’ Aagaard (🇲🇹 2022 & 🇦🇹 2024)