It is now 16 days to the 2024 Eurovision final in Malmo, Sweden. For 20 days running I will highlight one song from each of the last 20 years and I have started with 2004. Now with 16 days to go it this the 2008 Eurovision. Continue reading EUROVISION 2024 – MALMO COUNT DOWN TO THE FINAL – 16 days to go
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EUROVISION MEMORIES 2008 – BELGRADE
Roy van der Merwe of Eurovision South Africa and the ESC Covers website attended several Eurovision song contests in person at the host cities. He is writing down his memories of those Eurovisions he attended with accreditation. Continue reading EUROVISION MEMORIES 2008 – BELGRADE
BEST AFRIKAANS COVER OF A LATVIAN EUROVISION SONG – CANDIDATE 3
Eurovision South Africa has started with the candidates in the AFRI FRIEND AWARDS, it is the fifth country – LATVIA, the second category – AFRIKAANS COVERS – and the third candidate HI HI HO by South African male singer WILLEM BOTHA. Continue reading BEST AFRIKAANS COVER OF A LATVIAN EUROVISION SONG – CANDIDATE 3
LET THE MUSIC PLAY – LATVIA
Originally planned to do this series over a month or two, but it takes a lot of time. INFE Australia, INFE Ireland and INFE South Africa teamed up to pick their favourite Eurovision entry involving a MALE SINGER from each country that have participated in the Eurovision song contest.
WOLVES OF THE SEA – PIRATES OF THE SEA (Latvia 2008)
Recently we finished with our Top 100 which were compiled from the top 10’s of 103 people. Now for about 2 weeks, Roy of ESC Covers will do his top 20 of Eurovision songs he would have liked in the top 100 but they did not make it.
On a side note, a big thank you to Carolina of Peru who drew the beautiful Johannesburg Eurofriend, which we use as the featured image.
Continue reading WOLVES OF THE SEA – PIRATES OF THE SEA (Latvia 2008)
DISCOTHEQUE MEMORIES – ROY VAN DER MERWE – WOLVES OF THE SEA
Roy van der Merwe lives in Johannesburg, South Africa and owns the only Eurovision website in Africa. He is the seventh and last person to tell us of his Discotheque memory. We are doing this because the group THE ROOP from Lithuania picked a song called Discotheque for the 2021 Eurovision song contest. We allowed people to also pick a non Eurovision song, if such a song brings back special memories.
Continue reading DISCOTHEQUE MEMORIES – ROY VAN DER MERWE – WOLVES OF THE SEA
TOP 50 MILLENNIUM SONGS (position 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcQeEEz8-VI
ESC COVERS TOP 100 EUROVISION SONGS – position 9
Really so catchy and instant
09 – Wolves of the sea – Pirates of the sea (Latvia 2008)
EUROVISION 60th CELEBRATION – SONG 52 of 60
We are now over to my most loved song from the last 10 years, LATVIA’s 2008 song WOLVES OF THE SEA from PIRATES OF THE SEA. WILLEM BOTHA did the Afrikaans cover.
