Building Bridges - A Eurovision Podcast For The Rest Of Us

This week, Building Bridges welcomes a very special guest. Class Grenayde, who has been the bassist of Lord Of The Lost for more than 15 years, spoke to Sebi, Jan and Dave about the band's Eurovision application, Unser Lied für Liverpool, their tour, Iron Maiden and of course the honour and pressure to represent Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 in Liverpool.

Who The Hell Are Teya & Salena? Sebi has an answer, as he got the big pleasure to meet the Austrian duo for the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 and recorded a small bit of their conversation. Meanwhile back in the podcast studio, Dave and Jan discuss the song and everything else that happened this week.

This week is all dedicated to Sweden and the amazing final of Melodifestivalen 2023. Will Sweden be able to achieve its seventh Eurovision victory? Sebi, Jan and Dave go through all the 12 finalists and provide a lot of statistical data.

Germany is choosing their representative for the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 in Liverpool this Friday, so Sebi, Jan and Dave are taking a closer look at the competition. However, as always, their music tastes couldn't differ more!

Sebi, Jan and Dave talk about the current drama in Poland, after Tu bije serce Europy! Wybieramy hit na Eurowizję 2023 ended very unexpectedly. This and more scandals from other national finals will be discussed.

In this episode, Dave and Sebi finally see some good stuff upon the horizon of the Eurovision Song Contest 2023. Not only are they fairly impressed by the Finnish selection Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu, but they are also excited to listen to Loreen's song for Melodifestivalen. 01:20 - Speed News 03:39 - Lithuania 05:56 - France 09:47 - Australia 14:11 - UMK 32:14 - Poland 35:42 - Melodifestivalen Heat...

Jan met the Slovenian Eurovision representatives Joker Out and interviews them about their Eurovision participation. Sebi and Dave analyze the results of last weekend's Super Saturday, discuss the seven new songs and their favourites of the Lithuanian final Pabandom iš naujo! 2023 1:18 Speed News 3:46 Slovenia 4:52 Joker Out Interview 9:05 Italy 11:07 Romania 13:45 Denmark 17:08 Croatia 24:20 Malt...

In this little bonus episode, Dave and Sebi take a look at Festival di Sanremo 2023 and talk about their favourite songs. They discuss everything from Blanco's on-stage temper tantrum to Marco Mengoni's chances in Liverpool.

The first Heat of Melodifestivalen 2023 went down in Gothenburg and Sebi tells Jan and Dave how the show went down behind the scenes. They also discuss the new Eurovision entries and the first Super Saturday of the season! 1:27 - Speed News 4:05 - Melodifestivalen 13:26 - New Eurovision Songs 21:51 - Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 27:23 - Eesti Laul 32:19 - Dora (Croatia) 36:55 - Supernova (Latvia) 41:13...

It's the middle of national final season and Sebi, Jan and Dave are taking a look at the selections that are about to find their winners this weekend. 01:34 - Czech Republic 12:07 - Ireland 25:04 - Norway

Last weekend, Sebi and Jan were invited to a big Eurovision party, while Dave was fighting a snowstorm back home in Canada. He was shoveling snow for his life, while Jan and Sebi met up with Suzy from Portugal and chatted about her Eurovision experience over coffee.

Which Eurovision winners left the biggest impact? In this episode Sebi, Jan and Dave are going back in time and take a look at all the Eurovision winners throughout history, with the very hard task of picking a favourite winner of each decade. 01:03 - 1950s 05:02 - 1960s 12:10 - 1970s 18:41 - 1980s 25:44 - 1990s 33:42 - 2000s 40:03 - 2010s 49:06 - 2020s 56:32 - Game

In this episode Sebi, Jan and Dave are gonna share their experiences about their time at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin. Which artists did they meet, who did they make friends with? And what did they think about the end result? All of that and more will be discussed in today's throwback. Time stamps: 00:00 - Intro 05:42 - Turin 10:39 - Experiences with artists 14:34 - Press center 16:51...

Welcome to Building Bridges, a Eurovision Song Contest podcast for the rest of us. We are Jan, Dave and Sebi and we are not the typical Eurovision fans to run a podcast. Two of us are non-Anglophones and one of us is not even from a Eurovision country. And yet we've built bridges to each other. In this short pilot episode, we introduce ourselves and tell you how we would like to build bridges to a...