Finding Eurovision Day Two: Representation on Stage

Celebrating Måneskin, Past Winner of Eurovision

It's been a wild ride, these seven episodes. 

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The last episode of Finding Eurovision is a talk about last year's winner of Eurovision - Måneskin. These Italian superstars have seen their careers take off in a big way and a large part of that was their Eurovision win in 2021. 

Noise and I talk about the band, their fandom, and what it's like to see them live. 

Enjoy the episode and thank you for listening.

Track listing:

1. Måneskin - Zitti e Buoni (Italy: 2021)
2. Citi Zēni - Eat Your Salad (Latvia: 2022)
3. Måneskin - I Wanna Be Your Slave (Live at Coachella 2022)
4. Måneskin - Mamma Mia (link)
5. Måneskin - Nom de la Padre (link)

Finding Eurovision is a 7-part podcast series about the Eurovision Song Contest and the music from a group of friends who watch it. #findingesc

Eurovision is first and foremost a songwriting contest and language plays a huge part in that. Should the song be in English? The countries native language or maybe a mix of the two? Rat joins me on this episode to talk about Norway's 2019 entry Spirit in the Sky by Keiino, jojking, and linguistics. 

Does adding an ethnic slant to the song through a native language, give it a leg up in the popular vote?

Note: Norway grabbed 291 votes from the public, 30 points more than the winner Duncan Lawrence. 

Track listing:

1. Keiino - A Spirit in the Sky (Norway: 2019)
2. Jamala - 1944 (Ukraine: 2016)
3. In Corpore Sano - Konstrakta (Serbia: 2019)
4. Soldi - Mahmood (Italy: 2019)

Finding Eurovision is a 7-part podcast series about the Eurovision Song Contest and the music from a group of friends who watch it. #findingesc

Come in and chat, Acidica has some stories about growing up with Eurovision on TV (even on the news!) and how they fell both in and out of love with the song contest while growing up in Sweden. After all, as they say in the episode, Eurovision is religion in Sweden.

While this episode isn't all positives, there's plenty of good music.

I say good because, well, let's face it, the songs over the years haven't been all bangers. This episode has a lot of music and most of it Acidica was kind enough to recommend and give a little backstory on it. 

Track listing:

1. Waterloo - ABBA (Sweden: 1974)

2. Charlotte Nilsson - Take Me To Your Heaven (Sweden: 1999)

3. Sunstroke Project & Olia Tira - Run Away (Moldova: 2010)

4. Sébastian Tellier - Divine (France: 2008)

5. Ruslana - Wild Dances (Ukraine: 2004)

6. LT - We Are the Winners of Eurovision (Lithuania: 2006)

7. Sestre - Samo Ljubezen (Slovenia: 2002)

8. Hatari - Hatrið mun Sigra (Iceland: 2019)

9. Cornelia Jakobs - Hold Me Closer (Sweden: 2022)

10. Grotesco - Tingeliin (Tingeling russian base-lovers remix) (Melodifestivalen: 2009)

Extra show notes from Acidica! 

Carola - Fångad av en Stormvind (Sweden:1991)
We won with this in Italy 1991. Fun fact, until Måneskin, Italy hadn't won since 1990 when they hosted this competition where Sweden won!

Ping Pong - Sameyakh (Israel: 2000) 
Be happy...

AWZ - Vizlát nyár (Hungary: 2018) 
For the Blind Channel fans... This guy could give Matthias a run for his money

Alf Poier - Weil der Mencsh Zählt (Austria: 2003)

Can Bonomo - Love me Back (Turkey: 2012) 

Lordi - Hard Rock Hallelujah (Finland 2006)

Pirates of the Sea - Wolves of the Sea (Latvia: 2008)
As the song goes on, fewer and fewer mics are on

Finding Eurovision is a 7-part podcast series about the Eurovision Song Contest and the music from a group of friends who watch it. #findingesc

The Technical Side of Eurovision

Cue lights, sound, cameras! It's time to get to the technical side of things!

Day four takes a peek behind the scenes and behind the enormous curtain that is behind the scenes of Eurovision. Michael joins me to dazzle with technical facts (how many lights?!) and to uncover the wonder of frequencies. 

If you enjoy Eurovision, you'll enjoy learning how it becomes more than just people singing onstage. 

This is one of the documentaries that Michael mentions in the podcast.

https://youtu.be/XrqKsaq_WXQ

Track listing:

1. Blind Channel - Dark Side (Finland: 2021)

2. Daði and Gagnamagnið - 10 years (Iceland: 2021)

3. Fyr & Flamme - Øve os På Hinanden (Demark: 2021)

4. Jendrik - I Don't Feel Hate (Germany: 2021)

Finding Eurovision is a 7-part podcast series about the Eurovision Song Contest and the music from a group of friends who watch it. #findingesc

The most important part of Eurovision is the music! I sit down to talk to Oscar about two artists he's getting into while waiting for Eurovision 2022: The Roop and Jeangu Macrooy! In this artist spotlight, we talk about their music, and their stage act, and delve deeper than surface level about why this music speaks to us.

Track listing:

1. The Roop - Love is All We Got (Youtube)

2. The Roop - Yes, We Do (Youtube)

3. Birth of a New Age - Jeangu Macrooy (Netherlands: 2021)

4. Gold - Jeangu Macrooy (Youtube)

5. On Fire - The Roop (Lithuania: 2020)

6. Hatrið Mun Sigra - Hatari (Iceland: 2019)

 

Moving on from American Song Contest, I sit down to chat on zoom with Isabelle in the United Kingdom about many topics including Conchita Wurst, 2014 winner for Austria. This episode focuses on representation at Eurovision, how it attracts queer fans, two different types of drag and the idea of seeing yourself on stage.

How important is it to see different walks of life in a song contest?

Track listing:

1. Rise Like a Phoenix - Conchita Wurst (Austria: 2014)

2. Dancing Lasha Tumbai - Verka Serduchka (Ukraine: 2007)

3. LoveWave - Iveta Mukuchyan (Armenia: 2016)

4. Apricot Stone - Eva Rivas (Armenia: 2010)

Finding Eurovision is a 7-part podcast series about the Eurovision Song Contest and the music from a group of friends who watch it. #findingesc

Like the cover songs episode, Start the Music! presents talking and music with the first part of a seven-part series on Eurovision. The first half of the episode my partner Chris (from Doctor Who podcast Radio Free Skaro) and I talk about our adventures finding Eurovision and become fan. The second half I talk to Teo from Denmark about the American Song Contest, what we all thought was going to be Eurovision Comes to the States... but is it?

Track listing:

1. We Could Be the Same - Manga (Turkey: 2010) 2. Ovo je Balkan - Milan Stanković (Serbia: 2010)

3. So Lucky - Zdob și Zdub (Moldova: 2011)

4. Fulenn - Alvan & Ahez (France: 2022)

5. Higher Ground - Rasmussen (Denmark: 2018)

Finding Eurovision is a 7-part podcast series about the Eurovision Song Contest and the music from a group of friends who watch it. #findingesc

On this episode a discussion with fellow Albertan punk rock aficionado Shannon about the Alberta punk scene and so much more. Also, what do bees waggle dances have to do with a person's taste in music? Tune in! 

Track listing: 

1. Better off Dead - Quitter

2. You're Pretty Good & I Remember You by Chixdiggit

3. Dan-Diddle-A-Na - the smalls

The music has been piling up! This episode brings new (to the podcast) tracks from around the world, some shoutouts and... what more do you need? MUSIC!  

1. Paper Rifles - Politics (Scotland)
2. Atlas for Home - Charming Call (France)
3. We’ll Go Machete - Sack of Flies (Austin)
4. Prey Drive - Foxes (UK)
5. Planet Mercury - Disaster (Mass)
6. Sabin Sharpe - When I Met You (South Carolina)
7. Elm Tree Circle - Yes It Is (Germany)

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This episode, we change up the format and I discuss the evolution of the cover song from the 1940s to now and play some punk covers.

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