Introducing All Kinds of ESC!

For those of you following us on Twitter, you may be familiar with our now-frequent posts in which we present bits of trivia regarding all that has to do with the Eurovision Song Contest, including behind-the-scenes moments and tidbits from the national finals.

It has received a lot of positive interaction and we’d like to continue doing this. Therefore, this month, we are formalizing this by launching All Kinds of ESC! This project will be a space to capture the myriad of bite-sized Eurovision-related trivia.

Our tweeting activity will continue as usual, but periodically (we are aiming for once a month), we will post a compilation of our trivia tweets here on the blog, as an archive.

Thank you for being part of our journey and we look forward to sharing more of these fun facts with you!

P.S. In case you were curious, here are all the references made in the cover art:

Top half

• A part of the old Eurovision ident
• Eurovision 2000 logo
• Guildo Horn (Germany 1998)’s bells
• A dancer from Zero Gravity (Australia 2019)
• The Eurovision trophy (since 2008)
• A computer (United Kingdom 1996)
• An alpenhorn (Switzerland 1977)
• Conductor Sven-Olof Walldoff’s hat (Sweden 1974)
• ESC winning songwriter Jean-Paul Cara dressed as a penguin (Luxembourg 1980)
• Ovi (Romania 2014)’s piano
• A tie with a microphone attached to it (Spain 1974)
• One of the many signs saying ‘The struggle is joy’, this one in Maltese (Portugal 2011)
• Anne-Karine Strøm (Norway 1976)’s shades
• A dancer in a glass box (Azerbaijan 2013)

Bottom half

• A man in a hamster wheel (Ukraine 2014)
• Eurovision 1970 logo
• Eurocat (Eurovision 1990 mascot)
• ‘Claudia’ and ‘Nadia’ (Italy 1963)
• A sign depicting an onion (Estonia 2008)
• A sign held by an audience member, asking ‘Where is Andorra?’ (Eurovision 2007 final)
• Verka Serduchka (Ukraine 2007)’s hat
• A drum (Moldova 2005)
• Dana International (Israel 1998)’s feather outfit
• A sculpture by Salvador Dalì, part of the Eurovision 1969 stage design
• A ‘little birdie’ (United Kingdom 1959)
• Pointy hat (Moldova 2011)
• An animated puppet (Sweden 2015)
• ‘Thank You’ scrolls (Spain 1979)
• A cardboard cutout of a farm animal (Austria 2003)
• Céline Dion’s jacket + tutu combination (Switzerland 1988)
• The pianist’s glove (Germany 1980)
• Damiano David in the winner’s press conference (Italy 2021)
• Margot Hielscher as ‘Miss Jukebox’, holding up a record (Germany 1958)
• Easter egg: The Good Evening Europe! logo itself is a reference to the Eurovision 1991 postcards.