ESC Pulse

The morning after Semi 2, we made our immediate reactions to the results.

The team attempt to predict the ten qualifiers for Semi-final 2.

The morning after Semi 1, we made our immediate reactions to the results.

The team attempt to predict the ten qualifiers for Semi-final 1.

The fifth of five shows reviewing the songs competing in the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest. This week, the team look at the songs that have automatically qualified for the Grand Final, and also reveal their pre-show top 10s.

The songs reviewed in this episode:

• France: Slimane – "Mon amour"
• Germany: Isaak – "Always On The Run"
• Italy: Angelina Mango – "La noia"
• Spain: Nebulossa – "Zorra"
• United Kingdom: Olly Alexander – "Dizzy"
• Sweden: Marcus & Martinus – "Unforgettable"

The fourth of five shows reviewing the songs competing in the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest. This week, the team look at the songs in the second half of Semi-final 2.

The songs reviewed in this episode:

• Latvia: Dons – "Hollow"
• San Marino: Megara – "11:11"
• Georgia: Nutsa Buzaladze – "Firefighter"
• Belgium: Mustii – "Before The Party's Over"
• Estonia: 5Miinust X Puuluup – "(Nendest) narkootikumidest ei tea me (küll) midagi"
• Norway: Gåte – "Ulveham"
• The Netherlands: Joost Klein – "Europapa"

The third of five shows reviewing the songs competing in the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest. This week, the team look at the songs in the first half of Semi-final 2.

The songs reviewed in this episode:

• Malta: Sarah Bonnici – "Loop"
• Albania: Besa – "Titan"
• Greece: Marina Satti – "Zari"
• Switzerland: Nemo – "The Code"
• Czechia: Aiko – "Pedestal"
• Austria: Kaleen – "We Will Rave"
• Denmark: Saba – "Sand"
• Armenia: Ladaniva – "Jako"

The second of five shows reviewing the songs competing in the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest. This week, the team look at the songs in the second half of Semi-final 1.

The songs reviewed in this episode:

• Iceland: Hera Björk – "Scared Of Heights"
• Slovenia: Raiven – "Veronika"
• Finland: Windows95Man – "No Rules!"
• Moldova: Natalia Barbu – "In The Middle"
• Azerbaijan: Fahree feat. Ilkin Dovlatov – "Özünlə apar"
• Australia: Electric Fields – "One Milkali (One Blood)"
• Portugal: Iolanda – "Grito"
• Luxembourg: Tali – "Fighter"

The first of five shows reviewing the songs competing in the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest. This week, the team look at the songs in the first half of Semi-final 1.

The songs reviewed in this episode:

• Cyprus: Silia Kapsis – “Liar”
• Serbia: Teya Dora – “Ramonda”
• Lithuania: Silvester Belt – “Luktelk”
• Ireland: Bambie Thug – “Doomsday Blue”
• Ukraine: Alyona Alyona & Jerry Heil – “Teresa & Maria”
• Poland: Luna – “The Tower”
• Croatia: Baby Lasagna – “Rim Tim Tagi Dim”

The team review the 2023 Junior Eurovision Song Contest which will take place in Nice, France.

The team mull over the final results a couple of days after the show, and decode some of the crazy semi-final outcomes.

The team try to predict who will win the Grand Final of Eurovision 2023, who is likely to be top 10, and who might end up last.

The afternoon after Semi 2, we made our immediate reactions to the results.

The team attempt to predict the ten qualifiers for Semi-final 2.

The afternoon after Semi 1, we made our immediate reactions to the results.

The team attempt to predict the ten qualifiers for Semi-final 1.

The fifth and final show reviewing the songs competing in the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest. This week, the team look at the songs that have automatically qualified for the Grand Final.

The songs reviewed in this episode:

• France: La Zarra – “Évidemment”
• Germany: Lord Of The Lost – “Blood & Glitter”
• Italy: Marco Mengoni – “Due vite”
• Spain: Blanca Paloma – “Eaea”
• United Kingdom: Mae Muller – “I Wrote A Song”
• Ukraine: TVORCHI – “Heart Of Steel”

The fourth of five shows reviewing the songs competing in the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest. This week, the team look at the songs in the second half of Semi-final 2.

The songs reviewed in this episode:

• Poland: Blanka – “Solo”
• Slovenia: Joker Out – “Carpe Diem”
• Georgia: Iru – “Echo”
• San Marino: Piqued Jacks – “Like An Animal”
• Austria: Teya & Salena – “Who The Hell Is Edgar?”
• Albania: Albina & Familja Kelmendi – “Duje”
• Lithuania: Monika Linkytė – “Stay”
• Australia: Voyager – “Promise”

The third of five shows reviewing the songs competing in the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest. This week, the team look at the songs in the first half of Semi-final 2.

The songs reviewed in this episode:

• Denmark: Reiley – “Breaking My Heart”
• Armenia: Brunette – “Future Lover”
• Romania: Theodor Andrei – “D.G.T. (Off And On)”
• Estonia: Alika – “Bridges”
• Belgium: Gustaph – “Because Of You”
• Cyprus: Andrew Lambrou – “Break A Broken Heart”
• Iceland: Diljá – “Power”
• Greece: Victor Vernicos – “What They Say”

The second of five shows reviewing the songs competing in the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest. This week, the team look at the songs in the second half of Semi-final 1.

The songs reviewed in this episode:

• Switzerland: Remo Forrer – “Watergun”
• Israel: Noa Kirel – “Unicorn”
• Moldova: Pasha Parfeni – “Soarele şi Luna”
• Sweden: Loreen – “Tattoo”
• Azerbaijan: TuralTuranX – “Tell Me More”
• Czechia: Vesna – “My Sister’s Crown”
• Netherlands: Mia Nicolai & Dion Cooper – “Burning Daylight”
• Finland: Käärijä – “Cha Cha Cha”

The first of five shows reviewing the songs competing in the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest. This week, the team look at the songs in the first half of Semi-final 1.

The songs reviewed in this episode:

• Norway: Alessandra - "Queen of Kings"
• Malta: The Busker - "Dance (Our Own Party)"
• Serbia: Luke Black - "Samo mi se spava"
• Latvia: Sudden Lights - "Aijā"
• Portugal: Mimicat - "Ai Coração"
• Ireland: Wild Youth - "We Are One"
• Croatia: Let 3 - "Mama ŠČ!"

The team react to the results of this year's Junior Eurovision and discuss the potential future of the contest.

The team review the 2022 Junior Eurovision Song Contest which will take place in Yerevan, Armenia.

This month marks the 10th anniversary of the very first episode of the ESC Pulse podcast. To celebrate, the team take a look back at the first year covered live on the podcast: the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest!

We'd like to thank everyone who has either listened or have been a part of this podcast over the past ten years. Here's to ten more!

Part two of our podcast where the team are joined by Rob Urry-Tuttiett to review the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest which took place in Moscow, Russia.

Part one of our podcast where the team are joined by Rob Urry-Tuttiett to review the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest which took place in Moscow, Russia.

Non-qualifier discussion starts at 18.09

Grand Final discussion starts at 45.37

The team are joined by Ann Squires of ESC Armchair to review the 1964 Eurovision Song Contest which took place in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The UK is hosting Eurovision 2023 on behalf of Ukraine, and the team discuss the seven candidate cities in the running to host.

The team mull over the final results a couple of days after the show, decode some of the crazy semi-final outcomes and touch on some of the voting controversies in the aftermath.

The team try to predict who will win the Grand Final of Eurovision 2022, who is likely to be top 10, and who might end up last.

The morning after Semi 2 ended, we made our immediate reactions to the results, and go into a discussion about the final running order.

The team attempt to predict the ten qualifiers for Semi-final 2.

Right after Semi 1 ended, we made our immediate reactions to the results.

The team attempt to predict the ten qualifiers for Semi-final 1.

The last of five shows reviewing the songs competing in the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest. This week, we have Ann Squires of ESC Armchair joining us as our fifth special guest judge as we look at the songs that have automatically qualified for the Grand Final.

The songs reviewed in this episode:

• France: Alvan & Ahez - "Fulenn"
• Germany: Malik Harris - "Rockstars"
• Spain: Chanel - "SloMo"
• United Kingdom: Sam Ryder - "Space Man"
• Italy: Mahmood & Blanco - "Brividi"

The fourth of five shows reviewing the songs competing in the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest. This week, we have Ciaran Urry-Tuttiett of The Eurovision Showcase joining us as our fourth special guest judge as we look at the songs in the second half of Semi-final 2.

The songs reviewed in this episode:

• Ireland: Brooke - "That's Rich"
• North Macedonia: Andrea - "Circles"
• Estonia: Stefan - "Hope"
• Romania: WRS - "Llámame"
• Poland: Ochman - "River
• Montenegro: Vladana - "Breathe"
• Belgium: Jérémie Makiese - "Miss You"
• Sweden: Cornelia Jakobs - "Hold Me Closer"
• Czech Republic: We Are Domi - "Lights Off"

The third of five shows reviewing the songs competing in the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest. This week, we have AJ from EuroBuzz joining us as our third special guest judge as we look at the songs in the first half of Semi-final 2.

Note - this episode was recorded before the news about Israel's security situation.

The songs reviewed in this episode:

Finland: The Rasmus - "Jezebel"

Israel: Michael Ben David - "I.M"

Serbia: Konstrakta - "In corpore sano"

Azerbaijan: Nadir Rustamli - "Fade To Black"

Georgia: Circus Mircus - "Lock Me In"

Malta: Emma Muscat - "I Am What I Am"

San Marino: Achille Lauro - "Stripper"

Australia: Sheldon Riley - "Not The Same"

Cyprus: Andromache - "Ela"

The second of five shows reviewing the songs competing in the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest. This week, we have Paul Klur of Bruce Reviews Music joining us as our second special guest judge as we look at the songs in the second half of Semi-final 1.

Note - this episode was recorded before Israel Calling.

The songs reviewed in this episode:

• Portugal: Maro - "Saudade, saudade"
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• Croatia: Mia Dimšić - "Guilty Pleasure"
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• Denmark: Reddi - "The Show"
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• Austria: LUM!X & Pia Maria - "Halo"
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• Iceland: Systur - "Með hækkandi sól"
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• Greece: Amanda Georgiadi Tenfjord - "Die Together"
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• Norway: Subwoolfer - "Give That Wolf A Banana"
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• Armenia: Rosa Linn - "Snap"

The first of five shows reviewing the songs competing in the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest. This week, we have Arianna aka @Arianna483 joining us as our first special guest judge as we look at the songs in the first half of Semi-final 1.

Note - this episode was recorded before the running order announcement and Moldova's revamp.

The songs reviewed in this episode:

• Albania: Ronela Hajati - "Sekret"
  
• Bulgaria: Intelligent Music Project - "Intention"
  
• Latvia: Citi Zēni - "Eat Your Salad"
  
• Lithuania: Monika Liu - "Sentimentai"
  
• Moldova: Zdob și Zdub & Frații Advahov - "Trenulețul"
  
• Netherlands: S10 - "De diepte"
  
• Slovenia: LPS - "Disko"
  
• Switzerland: Marius Bear - "Boys Do Cry"
  
• Ukraine: Kalush Orchestra - "Stefania"
  

It's the final episode covering the 2022 national finals and the team reminisce over the highlights of the past few weeks, as well as discussing the songs selected in Germany, Denmark, Romania, France and Serbia. They also preview the last batch of national finals in Iceland, Portugal and Sweden. 

It's been a particularly dark week but the team try their best to keep spirits up by discussing the songs selected in Australia and Finland. They also preview national finals in Germany, Denmark, Serbia, France and Romania, as well as semi-finals in Iceland, Portugal and Sweden. 

A more quiet week to look forward to but surely the drama will only get worse. The team discuss the songs selected in Croatia, Malta, Norway, Poland, San Marino and Slovenia. They also preview national finals in Australia and Finland, as well as semi-finals in Iceland and Sweden. The listeners send in some questions on topics such as "what makes a bad Eurovision?".

We're not fans of salad this week. Or bananas. The team discuss the songs selected in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraine. They also preview national finals in Croatia, Malta, Norway, Poland, San Marino and Slovenia, as well as the third semi-final in Sweden.

The team discuss the songs selected in Ireland, North Macedonia, Israel and Italy. They also preview national finals in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraine, as well as semi-finals in Norway and Sweden.

The team kick off the 2022 National Final season and discuss the songs selected so far. They also preview national finals in Ireland, North Macedonia, Israel and Italy, as well as a LOT of semi-finals in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Slovenia, and Sweden.

The team are joined by Emilia Giacometti from Eurosong.hr to discuss Italy's history in Eurovision and we count down who the listeners voted as their favourite Italian entries.

The team discuss the results of this year's Junior Eurovision. Digressions include passport stamps and Top Of The Pops.

The team review the 2021 Junior Eurovision Song Contest which will take place in Paris, France.

Part two of a two-part review where the team is joined by Ciaran Urry-Tuttiett of The Eurovision Showcase to review the 1976 contest which took place in Den Haag, The Netherlands.

Part one of a two-part review where the team is joined by Ciaran Urry-Tuttiett of The Eurovision Showcase to review the 1976 contest which took place in Den Haag, The Netherlands.