Eurovision

“Hello! This is London calling with our scores for Friday’s Alternative Eurovision.”

This week’s Zingers include an amorous terrorist, a very cheeky monkey and some sexy talk down on the Southbank. But what is the Zinger Of The Week?

With London Pride 2010 coming to a climax with the parade on Saturday, we spoke to top drag king Ophelia Bitz. The voluptuous comic songstress performs as her alter ego Mavarotti and was the winner of this year’s national drag king contest, King Of The …

Eurovision has been described as musical Marmite or a kitsch collision of disco, nationalism, outre fashion and downright weirdness. Those who venerate these very qualities congregated last night at the ad hoc Udderbelly venue on the South Bank to celebrate Time Out’s Alternative Eurovision, a …

Cheers to Kerri of Dinner Diary for providing Londonist with this a recap of (and photo from) the recent Eating Eurovision contest dreamed up by food journalist Andrew Webb (and you thought Eurovision was all about the music!): It sounded simple enough. Could 25 food …

Last night the Scala in King’s Cross was taken over by enthusiastic Eurovision fans, attending the second annual Eurovision Preview Party hosted by ESC Today. With another big Eurovision preview party happening in Amsterdam this weekend the British organisers weren’t able to book some of …

Jade Ewen, Your Country Needs You Andrew Lloyd Webber has reached the final in his search to find a singer for his Eurovision song. On Saturday evening, Mark Evans, twins Francine & Nicola and Jade Ewen will compete to be the UK’s Eurovision entrant for …

The Lord is watching you Although the Eurovision Song Contest is not until May The heats themselves are well underway. It’s hosted by Graham, who’s not funny anymore And has a good face for radio writing the score. This Saturday’s show, at six thirty five …

Although only designed to run for 12 weeks, Eurovision spoof musical Eurobeat will end it’s run early on November 1. Starring Les Dennis and Mel Giedroyc as the hosts, it was a glorious piss-take of the great contest that originally started at the Edinburgh Festival. …

Long a feature of the New York summer, yesterday saw crowds estimated at 45,000 turn out for London’s first Salute to Israel, held to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Jewish state / tragedy of the Palestinian people / bungling British withdrawal …