Finding Eurovision Day Seven: Celebrating Måneskin
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Celebrating Måneskin, Past Winner of Eurovision It's been a wild ride, these seven episodes. If you like what you've listened to so far, please share the link to all the episodes: 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: Måneskin -...
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Finding Eurovision Day Six: The Language of Eurovision
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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 . Track listing: Keiino - A Spirit in the Sky () Jamala - 1944 () In Corpore Sano - Konstrakta () Soldi - Mahmood () is a...
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Finding Eurovision Day Five: Growing Up With Eurovision
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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 () 2....
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Finding Eurovision Day Four: The Technical Side
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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. Track listing: 1. Blind Channel - Dark Side () 2. Daði and Gagnamagnið - 10...
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Finding Eurovision Day Three: Artist Spotlights - The Roop and Jeangu Macrooy
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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 () 2. The Roop - Yes, We Do () 3. Birth of a New Age - Jeangu Macrooy () 4. Gold - Jeangu Macrooy () 5. On Fire - The Roop () 6. Hatrið Mun Sigra - Hatari ()
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Finding Eurovision Day Two: Representation on Stage
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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 () 2. Dancing Lasha Tumbai - Verka Serduchka () 3. LoveWave - Iveta Mukuchyan () 4. Apricot Stone - Eva Rivas () Finding Eurovision is a 7-part podcast...
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Finding Eurovision Day One: The American Song Contest
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Like the 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 ) 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 () 2. Ovo je Balkan - Milan Stanković () 3. So Lucky - Zdob și Zdub () 4. Fulenn - Alvan & Ahez () 5. Higher Ground - Rasmussen ()...
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Start the Music - 041 The Alberta Punk Scene
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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!
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Start the Music 040 - Music Roundup Fall Edition
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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!
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Start the Music 039 - The History of Cover Songs
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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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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