Hello guys and welcome back! After an absence which we explained on social media. Didrik and Javier with the presence of our guests Lukas and Robert will talk about the Eurovision 2026 edition held in Vienna. Nevertheless this is not the habitual analysis of an ESC festival. Not this year. We will talk about the songs, but perhaps this is not the most important thing now. Throughout this episode we will express our feelings as eurofans, try to see how the festival began to blur as our scapeway to our problems and our safe space and became a problem on itself as a political weapon of that country. Also, we will try to make conclusions about what will happen in the near future. Listen and enjoy!

Official Statement from Eurovision from A to Z defending our position towards the withdrawal of RTVE, AVROTROS and other public television as well as criticising the position of other broadcasters and the EBU

Welcome back after a long time! This episode was wished to be uploaded earlier but unfortunately, as Javier says in the disclaimer, duties and every day issues can overcome you. Nevertheless this episode is a good way to check what we expected before national finals season began with all the turmoil happened with five countries withdrawing. Didrik, Javier and Robert talk about these facts in a distant time like October 2025 and many more, apart from analysing the 1972 festival held "by default" in Edinburgh. This is a year full of historic and political events and good music, as Javier details in his trivia section. Here you will have the chance to discover stars like Nicola Di Bari, The New Seekers and Family Four, but also you will listen the first attempt of Ireland singing in Gaelic or the first incursion of progressive rock. You can also listen our 1971 playlist and enjoy most of the songs of this edition. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5bLWLia0gaZ4SvDJ18VfgX?si=8982b1a01eec4ea1 Deezer: https://link.deezer.com/s/32F5tNaRdpSFUELJN2Voj The snippets used for this episode (apart from the Eurovision 1971 songs) are the following: Introduction Section Alis - Nân Bashar Murad - Wild West Carly Rae Japse - Call Me Baby Luna Ki - Medusa Minerva - Estoy llorando por ti Sanna Nielsen - I'm in Love KEiiNO - Damdiggida Stella Mwangi og Alexandra Rotan - You Got Me Tom Hugo - I Like, I Like, I Like Gothminister - The Sun Susanne Sundfør - White Foxes Antigoni - You Can Have Him Trivia Section U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday Munich Massacre - 1972 Today In History 5 Sept 17 - AP Archive La Tragedia de Los Andes (1972). Testimonios de Roberto Canessa y Nando Parrado, recién rescatados. - Erwin Pérez PR Consultant The Proclamation of HM Queen Margrethe II - 15th January 1972 Apollo 17 astronauts singing on the moon David Bowie - Starman Uriah Heep - Easy Livin' Los Sirex - La escoba Deep Purple - HIghway Star (Made in Japan) Pink Floyd - One Of These Days (Live At Pompeii) Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick (Edit #1) NEU! - Hallogallo Eagles - Take It Easy Don McLean - American Pie The New Seekers - I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing (In Perfect Harmony)

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!