Welcome back to Eurovision from A to Z! Summer is usually a period of holidays, also for Eurovision, but music never has a rest. For this episode, we count again with our friend Lukas from Austria, who talked about the pros and cons of the cities candidates to host the festival in 2026 (which finally was Vienna). Also, we talk about rumours and recent news like M. Österdahl's end of contract with EBU.

We will deal with the festival held in Dublin in 1971, a year where many things happened as Javier will remember in the facts and trivia section. Didrik, Javier and Lukas will analyse the songs in this festival which supposed the return of the boycotting countries of the last editions and the debut of Malta. You will enjoy classics like Clodagh Rodgers and her "Jack-in-the-box", or music legends like Serge Lama or Massimo Ranieri.

You can also listen our 1971 playlist and enjoy most of the songs of this edition.

Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5r3tUkIPeaDCCfEyNbD60k?si=737b001f400f4944&pt=68fbe54117246dddb91e0211239df777

Deezer:

https://www.deezer.com/es/playlist/14232623241

The snippets used for this episode (apart from the Eurovision 1971 songs) are the following:

JJ - Wasted Love

Martin Österdahl gets booed by the crowd in Malmö Arena

Loïc Nottet - Beaux rêves

Dimash - Там, где живет любовь (Where The Love Lives)

Kesh You - Ризамын

L-Innu Malti - National anthem of Malta

Terrifying Moment ITN Reporter Caught in Belfast Explosion (1971)

The Amchitka Program underground nuclear test

Prime Minister Edward Heath two day meeting with French President Pompidou

Nixon suspends the gold patron temporarily in 1971

The Doors - The End

The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again

Black Sabbath - Children of the Grave

Ozzy Osbourne - Mama, I'm Coming Home

Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven

George Harrison - My Sweet Lord

Karina - Romeo y Julieta

You can watch the full show at Youtube, where some snippets have been taken to illustrate this episode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1A9J1ljmfg&t=4473s

Hello everyone and welcome to our analysis of the Eurovision Week! Enough time has passed to analyse calmly Eurovision 2025 in its musical aspects and beyond, including of course JJ's victory and almost all happened at Basel. This time we count with the presence of our Austrian friend Lukas. He will give us his personal point of view as a fan who lives in the winning country and valuable information about the organisation and the possible host cities of Eurovision 2026.

As every year, we analyse the songs and the results from non qualified countries to the winning song, paying particular attention to the hosts' countries, Sweden and Spain, At the same time and for another year, we haven't avoided the controversies around this edition: how we feel after dodging the bullet for the second time, the presence of that country and thier manipulation of televote, all that happened with Spanish press and the EBU threats to fine Spanish television, and so on.

Listen and enjly!

Hello and welcome back! As every year, we bring our special series of the current edition of Eurovision Song Contest, Basel 2025. Didrik and Javier count with two of our habitual guests, Joy Robert, to talk about the songs and many moe things.

This time we bring you a compressed format, where we make our predictions about the songs. who will get final?, who won't? who are the dark horses? Will we have shocking moments?

And of course we have made our ranking! We will reveal our top list of the songs of Eurovsion 2025. Who will be our winner? Listen and enjoy.

Welcome back to Eurovision A to Z! We begin a new season with new look, new logo and a new jingle! Many thanks to Marco for creating this great jingle, thanks to Didrik for the design of the new logo, and also many thanks to Joy for designing the blog for this podcast.

This episode is about 1970 edition, but there are a lot of news about the festival. At the moment of the recording, we have the first selected artist like Theo Evan and some entries like Albania or Montenegro got the ticket to Basel. As we know this is the time where national finals and internal selections are under way.

Our trip lands in Amsterdam 1970, a crucial edition. Dutch television had to face the controversies aroun the four-way tie in Spain and the boycott of several countries. Eurovision decided to achieve a great makeover with great success, setting the standards of the show that we know now, as you will listen in the episode. Some of the trademarks of the festival begin here, like the intervals with dancing and, above all, the postcards.

Didirk, Javier and Robert will analyse this festival with only 12 countries but full of great and iconic songs. This is the festival Dana won with the iconic "All Kinds of Everything", but also this is the festival where Mary Hopkin sang "Knock, Knock, Who's There" and Katja Ebstein's first appearance. The three of us will also praise Julio Iglesias, the most universal Spanish singer in her first international appearance, and his distant relative the Norwegian model, actress, and TT celebrity Triana Iglesias.

You can also listen our 1969 playlist and enjoy most of the songs of this edition.

Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1iiLYJOSC9WoVSqTVv3qgo?si=7118721820874a6b

Deezer:

https://www.deezer.com/es/playlist/13087594063

The snippets used for this episode (apart from the Eurovision 1969 songs) are the following:

Theo Evan - Save me from myself

Adonxs - No Common Measure

Claude - Ladada (Mon dernier mot)

NeonoeN - Clickbait

ina Žižić - Dobrodošli

Shkodra Elektronike - Zjerm

Cornelia Jakobs - Hold me closer

Måns Zelmerlöw - Should've gone home

Viktoria Silvstedt - Hello Hey!

Melody - Esa Diva

Måns Zelmerlöw - Heroes

Agreement 25 First Major Clash of the Troubles Captured in Dramatic Report (1969)

1970 This photo of a German chancellor went down in history. Why History Stories

The Who - Pinball Wizard (Live at the Isle of Wight, 1970)

The Beatles - Let it be

Black Sabbath - N.I.B.

Shocking Blue - Venus

You can watch the full show at Youtube, where some snippets have been taken to illustrate this episode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJQADBeej4c&t=2267s

Disclaimer: Marina Satti's "ZAri" didn't finish fifth in ESC 250. It was Joost Klein and "Europapa" who got this position. Marina got ninth place.

Hello dear listeners! We're happy to be back with a new episode of Eurovision from A to Z. Holidays are coming to their end, and an new year is about to begin, so Eurovision New Year!

We conclude our second season with a visit to Teatro Real in Madrid. This is the only festival held in Javier's country, Spain, so it is a festival full of siginificances, not only in the personal matter. The dictatorship took Eurovision as an opportunity to show a modern and attractive country as well as to appeat as a more "open" country.

We have some of the most iconic singers of Eurovision like Iva Zanicchi from Italy, Tommy Körberg from Sweden, the Norwegian Kirsti Saprsboe, the British Lulu, the Spanish Salomé or the Monegasque boy Jean-Jacques singing to her mom. At the same time, this festival is famous for its controvesrsial ending, with the only tie in the ESC history. Four winners were declared ex aequo: Spain, United Kingdom, Netherlans and France.

Do you want to know who is our winner? Will we break the tie? Do you agree with us? Listen this episode full of music and history.

You can also listen our 1969 playlist and enjoy most of the songs of this edition.

Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3Qi2GnDpGdx4QSIvo29Zlx?si=b9338f9dfe464859

Deezer:

https://deezer.page.link/1G5MitvWfeB7pmBC6

The snippets used for this episode (apart from the Eurovision 1969 songs) are the following:

Rodolfo Chikilicuatre: Baila el Chiki Chiki

Mustii: Before the party's over

Los Stop: El turista 1.999.999

Olof Palme criticises on US atrocities in Vietnam

Joe Cocker: With little help of my friends (Live at Woodstock 1969)

The Archies; Sugar Sugat

Margaret Williams: Y Cwilt Cymreig (Can i Gymru 1969)

Vetty: Un beau matin

You can watch the full show at Youtube, where some snippets have been taken to illustrate this episode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DkU6ckTUBM&t=5149s

Hello dear listeners! We're glad to be back with a new episode of Eurovision from A to Z. Holidays are here and Eurovision New Year hasn't begun yet, so it's time for few news about the festival or the national finals.

This time we travel to the Royal Albert Hall in London, to the first festival held under the current name Eurovision Song Contest and the first one produced in colour. Also, it is a festival full of significance for Didrik and Javier, the hosts of this podcast. It is the first victory of Spain with Massiel (also with dramas and controversies) and the first Swedish Eurovision hit with Claes-Göran Hederström. And of course, it is the first appearance of a British iconic singer: Cliff Richard.

Do you want to know who is our winner? Do you agree with us? Listen this episode full of music and history.

You can also listen our 1968 playlist and enjoy most of the songs of this edition.

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1kB4DEzmKJrkbUKle8NKEi?si=32c7f5dd5d014773

Deezer: https://deezer.page.link/5tnMmziqQ31mbRWD9

The snippets used for this episode (apart from the Eurovision 1968 songs) are the following:

Joost Klein: The Bird Song

Joost Klein: Europapa

Claude Channes: Mao-Mao

The Doors: Hello I Love You

The Rolling Stones: Sympathy for the Devil

You can watch the full show at Youtube, where some snippets have been taken to illustrate this episode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRgOsgGwW8Q&t=3777s

Welcome to our show again! This is our final chapter of The 2024 Series where we analyse the recently finished Eurovision 2024 edition. Believe us, there has been a lot to analyse. It's been intense, stressing and exhausting. You will listen our opinions about this year, which are not the best or the worst but ir's our personal and own opinions.

Didrik and Javier plus Lukas and Joy are here again to talk about everything or almost everything that happened at Malmö. We express our happyness for Nemo's victory, the first non binary person to achieve it (Yes! We guessed it!), but also we talk about both semifinals and their NQ countries and the analysis of the entries from the grand final.

What about all the extra music controversies? Of course, we haven't escaped to them, and we didn't want. Many polemics have floated around this edition and there's space to this: the presence of that country, uncomfortableness of many delegations about the use of the contest as a political and whitewashing display, press of certain country harassing and bullying artists and journalists who were against their presence, boos to this artist and Martin Österdahl, etc. And of course, Joost Klein's disqualification. Joy tells us how her country lived one of the most extreme eurodramas of all times.

And because this is a matter of music (and of politics), we have discussed about the future edition: the role of the EBU about what happened and what will happen to this group of references, future partnerships, the next host country, possible returnings and withdrawals, and of course our overall impressions of the show, the songs and many more things. Listen and enjoy!

Hello and welcome back to a new episode of these special series about Eurovision 2024! After ranking our the songs competing at Malmö 2024 with our friends, now it's time for Didrik and Javier to make our predictions and other issues about this edition. At the time of the recording, we had only pictures and one-camera shoot snippets of the first rehearsals excluding Big 5 and Sweden.

Who will get the ticket to the final? What will be their positions? Can we expect shocking qualifiers as well as shocking non qualifiers? Who is going to win Eurovision 2024? What about the elephant in the room? We try to answer this and many other questions and issues.

Hello and welcome to our third episode of The 2024 Series! Together with Joy and Lukas, we keep on ranking the songs of this edition held at the Swedish city of Malmö. Now it's time to analyse the entries from Big 5 and the host country: France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom.

As usual, there will be time for analysis, debate and laughs, but at the same time there is time for other issues. Also, this is the time where Didrik and Javier will introuduce thier own country's and they will talk more deeply about the Spanish and Swedish songs and the reactions they have caused. Finally, the general supervisor Didrik Gustafsson will make you know our final ranking through our combined points. Do you agree with us?

Eurovision from A to Z team and the hosts will talk about the songs in order of appearance and rank them in our habitual top system: We will rank all the songs (37) from top to bottom attributing a maximum 37 points to our winners, then going downwards until the last place, which is null points. Remember: it's fun to give zero points.

The songs during the interval act are:

Nightwish - Sleepwalker (Finnish National Final 2000)

Therion - Poupée de cire poupée de son (Live in Chile)

Disclaimer: Sometimes sound is not the best. We are amateur podcasters but always anthusiastic and feeling like recording episodes and spreading Eurovision and music culture. Our apologies if our words are not clear enough at some moments.

Hello again and welcome to our second episode of The 2024 Series! Together with Joy and Lukas, we keep on ranking the songs of this edition held at the Swedish city of Malmö. In episode, it's time to analyse the entries of the Second Semifinal of Eurovision 2024: Malta, Albania, Greece, Switzerland, Czechia, Austria, Denmark, Armenia, Latvia, San Marino, Georgia, Belgium, Estonia, Israel, Norway and The Netherlands.

As usual, There will be time for analysis, debate and laughs, but at the same time there is time for other issues. Our hosts introduce their own countries' entries. Javier gives again his support to Megara as he did in person during Madrid Preparty. You'll find again the crazyness of our votes provoking our laughs continously.

And of course, we haven't avoided the most contoversial topic of this edition: the presence of Israel. Each one of us has our own opinion about the song and Israel's participation and all of them are legitimate. It is a hot potato and an elephant in the room of EBU and the debate can last hours and hours, but the best thing you can do is to listen our opinions.

Eurovision from A to Z team and the hosts will talk about the songs in order of appearance and rank them in our habitual top system: We will rank all the songs (37) from top to bottom attributing a maximum 37 points to our winners, then going downwards until the last place, which is null points. Remember: it's fun to give zero points.

Disclaimer: Sometimes sound is not the best. We are amateur podcasters but always anthusiastic and feeling like recording episodes and spreading Eurovision and music culture. Our apologies if our words are not clear enough at some moments.