We're heading into the commentary box on this week's The Contest & Me 📺 Mikko Silvennoinen gives us a behind the scenes look at life as Finland's Eurovision commentator 🇫🇮 New episode available from midnight! 🎙️

Whether you like the new #Eurovision identity or not, I hope you’ll hop on over to @eurotrippodcast.com to find out everything you need to know about it. Rob and I have worked our socks off this morning to bring you the best coverage we possibly can (as we always do 🥹)

...have you missed us? 👀 The Contest & Me returns this Wednesday as we meet more of Eurovision's most iconic fans 💫 Subscribe so you don't miss it! 📲

🚨 NEW: A spokesperson for the EBU has confirmed to me #Eurovision organisers will “look into” alleged Israeli Government sponsored adverts on the official Grand Final live stream on YouTube

🆕 Here’s everything you need to know about the new Semi-Final qualifier announcement process #Eurovision

🚨 NEW: #Eurovision Co-Executive Producers Reto Peritz & Moritz Stadler have spoken about Celine Dion's appearance 🗣️ "It would be possible Celine Dion is in Basel, but will not make it to the main venue" 🎧 Hear my full interview with them on @eurotrippodcast.com at 5pm BST

I spoke to a #Eurovision winner for @eurotrippodcast.com today 🏆 You’ll hear it on one of our daily episodes from Basel 🎧

🎙️ I’m very excited to be heading to #Eurovision with @eurotrippodcast.com once again 🇨🇭Join us in May for daily episodes (and so much more 👀) from Basel, as we bring you the best coverage of the contest

Head of Contest Christer Björkman teasing some spectacular staging details 👀 Who do you think will be flying during their #Eurovision performance in Basel?

🇬🇧 NEW: Colin Berry, the UK's #Eurovision spokesperson for 25 years, has passed away at the age of 79

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: One of the artists at this year’s #Eurovision Song Contest will fly during their live performance, Head of Contest Christer Björkman tells @eurotrippodcast.com 🗣️ “There’s a few flying things this year, people for example” eurotrippodcast.com/2025/04/17/a...

🎙️ A pleasure to speak to both Sissal and Sergio Jaen for this week's @eurotrippodcast.com 🎧 I hope you enjoy listening to the conversations as much as I did having them #Eurovision

🇨🇾 EXCLUSIVE: Sergio Jaen has teased details of Theo Evan's 'difficult' #Eurovision staging 🗣️ "I don’t think every artist is capable of doing what he’s going to do on stage" eurotrippodcast.com/2025/04/09/i...

🇩🇰 Sissal being a chaotic queen for 43 seconds #Eurovision

🇨🇭 This was a lot of fun to record. If you’re off to Basel for #Eurovision in May, today’s episode gives you a little flavour of what you can expect from the city

🎟️ NEW: The second wave of tickets for all nine #Eurovision shows this May sold out in just 22 minutes earlier today

🇬🇧 EXCLUSIVE: Remember Monday are heading out on a huge #Eurovision promotion tour next week, and their record label manager has some ambitious aims for the group 🗣️ "We don’t just want to do well. We want to win this competition" eurotrippodcast.com/2025/03/26/r...

Shitting it.

🇨🇭 NEW: Switzerland has been drawn to perform in 19th in the #Eurovision Grand Final in May

🇬🇧 What we learned from Remember Monday's exclusive feature-length interview with @eurotrippodcast.com 🤫 It was the worst-kept secret… even for them ✍️ BBC set up #Eurovision songwriting sessions 🎭 The staging will be "theatrical" Click here to read more! ⤵️ eurotrippodcast.com/2025/03/08/w...

📻 I’ll be on BBC Radio 5 Live before 5pm talking about Remember Monday and #Eurovision

Having now added the UK to his list, Thomas Stengaard is now outright second on the list of most countries written for at #Eurovision with seven: 🇩🇰 🇩🇪 🇸🇲 🇨🇾 🇦🇿 🇦🇹 🇬🇧 Thomas G:son unsurprisingly holds the record of nine countries: 🇸🇪 🇪🇸 🇳🇴 🇩🇰 🇬🇪 🇨🇾 🇲🇹 🇫🇷 🇦🇲

🇬🇧 NEW: The United Kingdom will be represented by girl band Remember Monday at #Eurovision 2025 with the song What The Hell Just Happened?

🇩🇰 I’m very proud to have been trusted by DR to be an International Jury Member in Dansk Melodi Grand Prix and help choose Denmark’s song for #Eurovision Congratulations Sissal! A worthy, worthy winner 🏆

🗣 "Our most important job after the song is written is to protect the artists." #Eurovision songwriter Kill J explains the negative impact song leaks can have on those involved ❌️

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Iceland's Head of Delegation and Reference Group member Felix Bergsson is fighting to bring back juries to #Eurovision Semi-Finals 🗣️ "We review it very closely every year... I think it will be changed back"

🇸🇪 Wow! Måns Zelmerlöw! That’s a #Eurovision winning performance. Box it up and take it to Basel.

🇳🇴 My report of Melodi Grand Prix 2025 featuring interviews with Kyle Alessandro, Adam Woods, Wig Wam, Alessandra and many more MGP stars past and present 🎧 Available to listen on @eurotrippodcast.com pod.fo/e/2aea68

🇳🇴 A fantastic weekend in Oslo covering Melodi Grand Prix 🎧 Hear from winner Kyle Alessandro and songwriter Adam Woods, as well as a bunch of other special guests on @eurotrippodcast.com this Wednesday

🗣️ “We’re gonna win, mark my words” 🇳🇴 Melodi Grand Prix winner Kyle Alessandro tells @eurotrippodcast.com that he’s going to win #Eurovision

🗣 "There's going to be some wow moments" 🇳🇴 Melodi Grand Prix Music Director, Tarjei Strøm, teases an exciting interval acts in Norway this weekend 👀 #MGP | #Eurovision

🚨 We've got a bonus episode for you! 🇫🇮 Sergio Jaen explains how he has been working with the #UMK2025 team ahead of tonight's show. 🎙 podfollow.com/theeurotrip

🇬🇧 What we learned from BBC Eurovision’s exclusive interview with The Euro Trip 🎶 UK music heritage in the song for 2025 🤫 The Traitors rumour was only ever a rumour 🤝 Cartmell and May want a long-term agreement ⬇️ All that and MORE eurotrippodcast.com/2025/02/05/w...

🇨🇾 NEW: Sergio Jaen is the Creative Director of Theo Evan’s #Eurovision performance in Basel

🗣️ "We’re going back to the UK heritage of music” 🇬🇧 In an exclusive interview with The Euro Trip, the BBC's Andrew Cartmell and David May reveal the first details of the UK's 2025 #Eurovision act eurotrippodcast.com/2025/02/04/b...

🚨 NEW: Klemen Slakonja has now blurred his depection of Dave Benton in the video on his YouTube channel I’ve reached out to Slakonja for comment. ⬇️ Story now updated

🚨 #Eurovision 2001 winner Dave Benton tells me he feels "no offence" by Klemen Slakonja darkening his skin to depict him in a YouTube video ⬇️ Full story for @eurotrippodcast.bsky.social eurotrippodcast.com/2025/02/03/n...

🗣️ "If he would have impersonated me with a white person’s face, it would have never been correct" 🇪🇪 #Eurovision 2001 winner Dave Benton says he isn't offended by Klemen Slakonja's video depicting him with darkened skin eurotrippodcast.com/2025/02/03/n...

🗣️ "We have to figure out how to become friends with AI" #Eurovision boss Martin Österdahl acknowledges the inevitability of artificial intelligence, but rules out the use of it in the same way as in JESC last year 🙅‍♂️ eurotrippodcast.com/2025/01/30/m...

Fancy a little look at Basel’s #Eurovision arena? 🏟️ We took a little trip to have a look for ourselves earlier today

🗣️ “We are proposing to the EBU how the shows can be enhanced a little bit” #Eurovision 2025 Co-Executive Producers Reto Peritz and Moritz Stadler are still working on changing how the Semi-Final qualifiers are announced 📺

🎟️ NEW: The first wave of tickets for the three #Eurovision live shows sold out within seven minutes of going on sale this morning. Tickets for the six preview shows sold out within 20 minutes

🗣️ "I’ve been assured they’ve got as many places as they can" 🎟️ Just before tickets go on sale, #Eurovision Director Martin Green has defended the number of accessible places available inside Basel's arena eurotrippodcast.com/2025/01/29/e...

Martin Österdahl ✅ Martin Green ✅ Reto Peritz ✅ Moritz Stadler ✅ Christer Björkman ✅ Available now for your listening pleasure #Eurovision @eurotrippodcast.bsky.social

🗣️ "Last year was a challenging year, and we're just humans" 💭 #Eurovision Executive Supervisor Martin Österdahl reflects on the emotional toll the turbulent events of last year's contest in Malmö had on him

🇨🇭 Ready for the #Eurovision Semi-Final Allocation Draw 🎙️ Plenty of coverage coming to @eurotrippodcast.bsky.social socials through the day, and a special podcast later this afternoon

Yes. I was embarrassed by the size of that pizza.

✈️➡️🇨🇭 #Eurovision | @eurotrippodcast.bsky.social

🇫🇮 NEW: One Morning Left have been disqualified from UMK "due to a contract violation" #Eurovision

🇲🇩 NEW: Moldova - and broadcaster TRM - withdraws from the 2025 #Eurovision Song Contest “following a detailed analysis of the current situation, as well as the economic, administrative and artistic challenges" 1/3