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Eurovision 2006

23 May 2006

  • The same old song for Europe

    Susan Tomes

    Susan Tomes: The annual Eurovision exercise in nullity is a wasted opportunity for music to connect with people's lives.

22 May 2006

  • Prince loses out to Lordi

  • From the land of Sibelius, a song for Satan

21 May 2006

  • All hail to the lizard kings of Eurovision

  • In La-la land

20 May 2006

  • Culture Vulture
    Eurovision Song Contest 2006


    Rock gods ... Lordi from Finland celebrate their Eurovision win in Athens. Photograph: Orestis Panagiotou/EPA
    Well, whip my skirt off and call me Cheryl - it's time for Eurovision again.

  • Culture Vulture
    The final countdown

    In her last blog from Athens, Karen Fricker offers for your delectation a viewer's guide to tonight's Eurovision festivities ...

  • Eurovision 2006: minute-by-minute

    Well, whip my skirt off and call me Cheryl - it's time for Eurovision again.

19 May 2006

  • Culture Vulture
    Final cut

  • A song for America

    Ian Cleverly

  • Eurovision: a five-point plan

    Neil Clark

  • Iceland swears

18 May 2006

  • Culture Vulture
    Cult hits

  • Eurovision 2006

7 May 2006

  • Death metal, Dana?

    Forget Cliff and Buck's Fizz, says Barbara Ellen - with Finnish hard rock and German country, Eurovision 2006 may rival Glastonbury for variety. And if you believe that...

April 2006

  • Finland sends in the heavy metal mob for its Eurovision challenge

    In Finland, where the words "nul points" are burned into the national psyche, they have decided to take radical action and appoint hard-rocking death metal band Lordi as their Eurovision entry for 2006.

  • Julian Baggini

    Eurovision - the EU in microcosm

    Julian Baggini

    What can the Eurovision Song Contest tell us about the future of Europe and the nature of its peoples? The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation may provide the answer, which is apt because it seems that Europe is an artificial society and Eurovision simulates it, warts and all.

  • A warlike song for Europe

    For most north Europeans, the Eurovision Song Contest is little more than a joke. For citizens of the former Yugoslavia, however, it is a chance to revisit all the hatreds of the Balkan conflict.

March 2006

  • Eurovision bands can't sing in harmony

    Serbia-Montenegro's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest has soured relations between the two republics as Montenegro bids for independence from Belgrade.

February 2006

  • Former chart toppers battle for Eurovision entry

    Ex-Hear'Say singer Kym Marsh and former Blue star Antony Costa are bidding to become this year's UK Eurovision entry.

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