Today RTÉ have announced the selection process for next years Eurovision in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Like last year there will be five mentors coaching the acts. The five mentors are:

• Julian Benson
• Greg French
• Bill Hughes
• Edele Lynch
• Linda Martin

As a Eurovision fan one thing I love is when our Euro stars collaborate.  We get the trifecta with the below clip as Ireland and England combine forces on what can only be described as the Norwegian Eurovision anthem ‘Fairytale’.  Niamh Kavanagh and Josh Dubovie pull their collective impressive vocals together to belt out the beloved tune.  The duet can also be found on Josh’s new album release ‘Carpe Diem’ which is a collection of covered tracks that include, ‘Chasing Cars’, ‘Save the last dance for me’, ‘Black and Gold’ and ‘Cry me a river’. 

The utturley fabulous world of Scandinavian music is making it’s way on to Dance Nation TV!

Dance Nation will be trialling “Scandipop’s” list of Scandinavian hits for one hour, every week for four weeks.

If this proves to be popular, they will continue to show it every week.

This is a huge coop for Scandinavian music lovers in the UK and Ireland.

I am personally very excited at the prospect that this will be shown every week from now on. I can’t get enough of the Scandinavian music scene and already being a huge fan of Dance Nation TV, I am totally obsessed already!

The show is set to feature lots of Scandinavia’s biggest stars including September, Eric Saade, Agnes, Infernal, Swedish House Mafia, Eric Pridz, Star Pilots, Ola, Elin Lanto and Danny & Freja!!

Also I will be hoping that they will feature some other artists not released commercially here but still well known in Eurovision/Schlager circles such as Velvet, Alcazar and Jenny Silver to name a few but I have to admit Velvet being aired is an absolute must for me!

This one hour “Scandipop” extravaganza , which is starting on Friday 7th October on Sky, will also be repeated on two other occasions throughout the same week for anyone who may miss it.

The times are:

Every Friday morning at 10AM

The list of nominees for this year’s Rockbjörnen awards in Sweden have been released. The awards are concentrated around pop and rock and this year there are a plethora of former Eurovision and Melodifestivalen favourites amongst the nominees.

This year’s Eurovision 3rd placer, Eric Saade, is nomianted for Best Male Artist along with Melodifestivalen runner up this year, Danny Saucedo.

RTE broadcast episode four of the highly enjoyable “A Little Bit Eurovision” tomorow night, this time focusing on 1993′s Eurovision winner Niamh Kavanagh. Niamh gave Ireland a home victory in Millstreet with “In Your Eyes”; the 2nd of Ireland’s three-in-a-row wins.

Niamh’s win was a nail-biting duel against the UK’s Sonia during most of the voting but Ireland eventually claimed victory with 187 points; a record score at the time. “In Your Eyes” became the biggest selling single in Ireland in 1993 and Niamh travelled to Nashville to record an album but subsequent singles failed to make an impact.

As many of yea have heard there was a large blast in Oslo, capital of Norway a short time ago with several people injured in the blast.

We would like to wish them well in this troubled time.