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 💫

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🚨 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

That’s very kind. Hope to have you with us for our coverage next week 🤞

Thanks David. I’m looking forward to finding out just as much as you are

🚨 MORE: Reto and Moritz have also confirmed that the new Semi-Final qualifier announcement process is going ahead

🗣️ "Until now, we have the green light"

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Reto Peritz & Moritz Stadler smiling

🚨 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 🎧

Hopefully we can make it feel like you’re there 🤞

🎙️ 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

Artist to fly as part of their Eurovision 2025 performance In what is expected to be a first at the competition, one of the artist’s performing at next month’s Eurovision Song Contest in Basel will fly during their live performance.

🚨 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

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‘It’s not easy’: Sergio Jaen teases Cyprus staging details Creative Director Sergio Jaen has revealed details of Cyprus’ Eurovision staging, saying the country’s artist is doing something not a lot of other performers would be able to do.

🇨🇾 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

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🇨🇭 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

🎟️ Tickets may become available in the coming weeks. Fans with tickets who are unable to attend can sell on Ticketcorner’s reselling platform fanSALE.ch at the original ticket prices

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

Remember Monday signed up for huge Eurovision promotion tour Remember Monday will soon head out on a multi-country Eurovision promotion tour as they gear up to represent the United Kingdom in Basel this May.

🇬🇧 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 The Euro Trip the UK’s 2025 Eurovision representatives, Remember Monday, sat down for an exclusive feature-length interview with The Euro Trip. What did we learn?

🇬🇧 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

Trumpeting… Very good 😉

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: 🇸🇪 🇪🇸 🇳🇴 🇩🇰 🇬🇪 🇨🇾 🇲🇹 🇫🇷 🇦🇲

🇬🇧 Tom Hollings and Sam Brennan from the duo Billen Ted also appear on the credits of What The Hell Just Happened?

They both have #Eurovision experience having written Embers with James Newman in 2021

🇬🇧 What The Hell Just Happened? was written by Remember Monday members Charlotte Steele, Holly-Anne Hull and Lauren Byrne

+ #Eurovision winning songwriter Thomas Stengaard (🇩🇰 2013 🏆, 🇨🇾 2021, 🇦🇹 2024)

+ Julie ‘Kill J’ Aagaard (🇲🇹 2022 & 🇦🇹 2024)