Melodifestivalen is the competition which chooses the Swedish entry for the Eurovision Song Contest.
The songs in the second heat of Melodifestivalen 2013, the competition which chooses the Swedish entry for the Eurovision Song Contest, were considerably better than those which featured in the … Read the rest “Melodifestivalen 2013 #2”
“There’s certainly no Loreen in that lot”, I thought to myself as I watched Melodifestivalen #1 this morning. Melodifestivalen is the multi-heat competition which chooses the Swedish entry for the … Read the rest “Melodifestivalen 2013 #1”
Gosh, I love the internet. You can lie on your couch in Sydney (as the rain intensifies) and via your television set, be transported across the other side of the … Read the rest “Äntligen! Äntligen!”
I really, really love this photograph taken almost three years ago at a shopping centre in Stockholm with Swedish pop singer (and daughter in law of ABBA-Benny), Nanne Grönvall. In … Read the rest “Melodifestivalen 2013”
“What a beautiful t-shirt you have”, said the woman behind the bottle-shop counter. I reminded her we’d met once before in similar circumstances, and she’d said something similar. Four years … Read the rest “Systembolaget Surry Hills”
A few weeks ago, when it was first suggested Sweden was favourite to win this year’s Eurovision Song Contest I wrote my boss an email saying, “If Sweden wins I’ll … Read the rest “Eurovision 2012”