Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Reigning Eurovision champion Duncan Laurence should have given away his crown tonight but.... you know. Here comes anyways his EP including the latest single Someone else , that he would have performed in Rotterdam arena in the Eurovision song contest 2020. Instead tonight he will perform it in Hilversu,m tv-studios for Europe shine a light ...... (Still don't get it why EBU decided to cancel instead looking for an alternative in form on videos or something though....) This is his third single following Eurovision winner Arcade and Love don't hate it released last October. His EP Worlds on fire include also Beautiful and Yet . A full album is expected to be released later this year...

The reigning Eurovision winner Duncan Laurence from the Netherlands came to Helsinki's Nosturi in his European tour on November 28, 2019. The chosen venue was Nosturi amongst the ship building docks by the sea, a venue that will be sadly closed by the end of the year and torn down. The day was also one of the darkest and rainiest possible so outside the atmosphere was all but joyous. Also, going there knowing only the two singles he had released so far the expectations weren't very high to be honest. Paul Elias of UMK's Satin Circus fame (runner up to PKN) was the warm up artist and his gig didn't really go well from broken guitars to missing vocals..... Also, the venue was barely half full, among them many local Dutch obviously.... I had also read some reviews in search for information on set list etc and one reviewers note stuck in mind "he hardly took any eye contact and it seemed like there was a invisible wall between him and the public" I wasn't s...

Reigning Eurovision song contest winner Duncan Laurence has released the video for his follow up single Love don't hate it . Very simple video fitting perfectly the mood of the song that is pretty fabulous and grows with every listen. Good job, Duncan! and while at it, have a rewatch if his Arcade , too:

Here it is finally, eagerly waited follow up to Duncan Laurence's Eurovision song contest winner Arcade . It seems the midtempo Love don't hate it has surprised many who thought he'd release another ballad and has met with general praise. And indeed, it's a good one. The wait for the follow up has raised also a lot of talk in the Eurovision bubble why the winners take so long to release a follow up.  Duncan's five months is in line with the others, or even a bit faster than average. On the other hand it is only the second song he has released so we can talk about a real debutant. The 2018 winner Netta released her follow up Bassa sababa only in February the year after and has released a total of three singles so far. Salvador Sobral, the 2017 winner, for obvious reasons, released his follow up a year later. Mano a mano was followed by his second studio album and two more singles. After Eurovision he released a live album of his debut album based tou...

It's been less than two days since Duncan Laurence sung his Arcade to the Eurovision victory and gave The Netherlands their fifth win after 44 years after Ding-a-dong in 1975. Already ten venues in eight cities have showed interest to host Eurovision 2020, added by the whole region of North Brabant.... later specified capital s'-Hertogenbosch's Brabanthallen as the venue.  The front runners are Amsterdam, Utrecht and Rotterdam but also places like Arnhem, Leeuwarden, Maastricht, Zwolle and The Hague, the host of 1976 and 1980 editions. It's a bit like when Finland won all sort of Rovaniemi and Lahti wanted to be game and quoting Duncan "bidding is a losing game" for them from the start. Simply because they don't have a suitable venue to start with. or they do and it doesn't have a roof..... But then we have Amsterdam's Ziggo Dome (17.000) and Amsterdam RAI (13.000), already a host for the 1970 contest, and Rotterdam's Ahoy (16.000) with ...

The Netherlands score their first win since 1975, and their 5th, with Duncan Laurence's Arcade. It was juries 3rd and televoters 2nd (Norway won that!) just by 8 points over Italy. Italy was juries 4th. The real surprise was North Macedonia that won the jury vote but was only 121th with the televoters. Sweden was once again juries favorite placing 2nd but televoters didn't buy it and had it only 9th. Sweden got 10 times 12 points, Italy, the Nertherlands and North Macedonia six, Czech Republic 4, Australia 2 and Russia, Serbia, Denmark, Israel, Greece, Azerbaijan and Cyprus one. Needless to say Greece and Cyprus gave them to each other, as did Russia and Azerbaijan. The Russian jury vote was the most random at first glance.  Iceland managed to provocate in the end sporting Palestine scarf when their televotes were announced... A lot of camera mistakes, and one of them during Estonian performance, as well as sound problems at least at my place. Also a lot pixeling i...

Today's second internally chosen entry premiere for Tel Aviv Eurovision 2019 comes from Duncan Laurence from the Netherlands. His self-written song is called Arcade , a ballad/anthem. Now I want to see how they bring that video on stage! I suppose they can't take much lead from that..... :-)