William Carter

Aug 19, 2024 | escunited.com | Sean Tarbuck |William Carter |James Maude |Jordan Munn

[AdSense-B] All opinions expressed in this article are those of the person quoted and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the other team members or ESC United as a whole. Hello, and welcome back to Eurovision This Decade! The series continues, where we as a team here at ESC United look back at the decade we leave behind and …

Jul 20, 2024 | escunited.com | William Carter

Currently, there’s a lot of attention towards where the next Eurovision Song Contest will be held in Switzerland, but that won’t hinder our focus on the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. Sometime last week, it was announced by the Portuguese broadcaster (RTP) that they had found a singer, and now the Spanish broadcaster and this year’s host (RTVE) have also announced their representative. Portugal has since 2017, remained a steady participant of the contest, with the exception of 2020.

Jun 4, 2024 | escunited.com | David Popescu |William Carter |Sean Tarbuck |Boris Meersman

The Eurovision Song Contest 2021 had just concluded a few days before, but even then, trouble was just around the corner. Back in the final days of May 2021, it was announced that the EBU would suspend the Belarusian national channel BTRC within 2 weeks, should they not reply and comment on the ongoing situation. Instead, the threat of suspension, …

May 20, 2024 | escunited.com | William Carter

When the first images and clips of Bambie Thug‘s “Doomsday Blue” rehearsal trickled out a week before this year’s first Eurovision semi-final, there was one thing practically everyone could agree on: Ireland’s staging was something special. The operatic, demonic slice of musical theater excellence wowed press and fans alike, and the buzz around “Doomsday Blue” exploded overnight. Would this non-binary, Irish pagan songbird get Ireland its best result at the contest in over 20 years?

May 11, 2024 | escunited.com | William Carter

This year’s Eurovision winner, Swiss entry “The Code”, was written at the 2023 SUISA songwriting camp, an annual event held from May 30-June 1 of last year in Zurich. This was a mere 17 days after a song written at the previous year’s camp, Remo Forrer’s “Watergun”, was performed at the Eurovision Grand Final in Liverpool.