Eurovision Throwback: Axel Hirsoux – Mother

For today’s throwback, we are rewinding the clock back to 2014, a time where Belgium was truly hit or miss at Eurovision. Since 2005 and up until 2014, the nation only managed to qualify to the final twice which statistically isn’t great, so in 2014 it was up to Axel Hirsoux to follow on from…

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Best of the Bunch: Belgium

Belgium was one of the seven nations to participate in the first ever Eurovision Song Contest, and incredibly, since then, have participated at all but three contests. Also quite incredibly, the nation has only won the contest once, and that was in 1986 when Sandra Kim performed the song J’aime la Vie, and she was…

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12 Days of Eurovision: Day 10

We don’t have to travel far to our next destination, it’s just over the bridge! We’ve gone from Malmö to Copenhagen, after Emmelie de Forest’s win in 2013. This was the third time that Denmark have hosted the contest, with the more recent time back in 2001. The hosts of the show were Lise Rønne, Nikolaj…

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