James Newman has released his brand new song entitled Enough. The track showcases the powerful and soulful vocals of James.
Enough is available to purchase or stream from most digital stores.
James was selected to represent the United Kingdom at the 2020 Eurovision with My Last Breath.
You can see the official music video for Enough below.
Source: ESC Covers
Nicki French has made a special 20th anniversary ‘lockdown’ recording of Don’t Play That Song Again with the original backing singers that were with her on stage at the 2000 Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm.
Nicki represented the United Kingdom and her backing vocalists – Joseph Noble, Patti Revell Jones and Vic Bynoe.
Thanks to Hussein Ramadan for putting the video together.
Check out the ‘lockdown’ video of Don’t Play That Song Again below.
Source: ESC Covers
Asanda Jezile has released her first official single entitled Photogenic. It is a radio friendly song with an r’n’b contemporary dance groove and a strong and atmospheric production.
Photogenic is available to purchase or stream via all digital stores.
Asanda first came to the spotlight when she was just 11 years old on Britain’s Got Talent. She was also a popular contestant at the Eurovision: You Decide 2018 national selection in the United Kingdom with the popular Legends.
You can hear Photogenic below as well as see a short video interview by Asanda, where she talks about the release of the song.
Source: ESC Covers
As the London Eurovision Party has been cancelled, one of the hosts that should have been, SuRie will live stream across social networks for a “substitute singsong” on 29 March.
Check SuRie’s official facebook page for more information https://www.facebook.com/SuRieOfficial/
SuRie represented United Kingdom at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest with Storm.
Relive Storm below.
Source: ESC Covers; facebook.com/SuRieOfficial
The Fizz have released a brand new single and music video for the song T.O.T.P. It is a fun and upbeat retro style song based on the famous BBC tv show Top Of The Pops.
T.O.T.P. is taken from the their new album ‘Smoke & Mirrors’.
The Fizz are a spin off of Bucks Fizz, who of course, won the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest for the United Kingdom with Making Your Mind Up. The band now consists of original members Cheryl Baker, Mike Nolan and Jay Aston.
You can see the video clip for T.O.T.P. below.
Source: ESC Covers
Jenny Ryan gave an impressive and diva performance of Euphoria on X Factor: Celebrity in the UK. She gave an excellent show of the 2012 winning Eurovision song of Loreen from Sweden.
Euphoria is the second winning Eurovision song that Jenny has performed on this season of X Factor: Celebrity. She also sang Rise Like A Phoenix, the 2014 winning song for Conchita Wurst for Austria.
Jenny is one of the ‘chasers’ on the popular ITV quiz show in the UK, The Chase. Her nickname is The Vixen.
You can see Jenny perform Euphoria and Rise Like A Phoenix below.
Source: ESC Covers; The X Factor UK/ITV
Sonia makes a welcome return with a brand new song for 2019. The track is an uplifting and anthemic pop banger entitled A Night That’s Never Ending.
A Night That’s Never Ending is released through Energise Records and produced by Gordon Pogoda, Joe Faraci and Pete Ware.
There are several remixes of A Night That’s Never Ending by Matt Pop, Pete Ware and Sakgra PW Elle.
Sonia represented the United Kingdom at the 1993 Eurovision Song Contest with Better The Devil You Know and finished in the runner up position.
You can hear A Night That’s Never Ending below.
Source: ESC Covers; ℗ 2019 Energise Records Ltd
In an announcement made earlier today, the BBC confirmed the UK’s participation in Eurovision 2020 and also gave details of a new selection process for the song and artist.
The UK public will no longer have the opportunity to vote on their preferred choices, as the BBC has dropped the ‘You Decide’ show format which has been used to select the UK entry for Eurovision since 2016 and will instead move back to internal selection.
In a surprise move however, the whole process will be done in collaboration with the music company BMG and therefore it is very likely that both the songwriters and artist will be selected from the labels own extensive roster of artists.
Read the full story here on the BBC website:
Kerrie-Anne has officially released her popular track Sweet Lies from the 2019 Eurovision: You Decide national selection in the United Kingdom.
Sweet Lies is available via most digital platforms such as Amazon, Google Play, iTunes and Spotify. Let us hope Kerrie-Anne has a big hit and you will all be dancing to this through the summer of 2019.
Check out Kerrie-Anne’s performance of Sweet Lies from the UK Eurovision: You Decide final below.
Source: ESC Covers
Michael Rice has won the Eurovision: You Decide competition and will represent United Kingdom at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest in Israel with his song Bigger Than Us.
ESC Covers was at the event held in Manchester. As we arrived there were some Palestinian protestors outside the tv studios.
The show proved to be very entertaining. It was hosted by Måns Zelmerlöw and Mel Giedroyc. There was a medley of some successful United Kingdom songs by Måns with some help from The Fizz (1981 UK ESC winners) and Katrina (1997 UK ESC winner). Netta was also on hand to perform her winning song, Toy, for Israel in 2018.
There were three songs and six artists. Each song was sung twice by two different acts in a different style. The panel of judges (Rylan Clark-Neal, Mollie King and Marvin Humes) selected the three acts to go forward to final where the public would have the final say of who goes to Tel Aviv to represent the United Kingdom.
The songs –
Sweet Lies – Kerrie-Anne did an uptempo dance/soul version. Anisa did a very soulful ballad version. Kerrie-Anne was voted through to the final.
Freaks – Jordan Clarke did a very catchy pop version. The girl group MAID did a slightly quirky beat version. Jordan Clarke was voted through to the final.
Bigger Than Us – Holly Tandy performed a country/pop upbeat version. Michael Rice did a power ballad version. Michael Rice went to the final.
After the televoting it was declared that Michael Rice would fly the UK flag in Israel in May. Bigger Than Us is composed by Laurell Barker, Anna-Klara Folin, John Lundvik and Jonas Thander.
You can see Michael perform his winning song below.
Source: ESC Covers