American Song Contest – Week Three

The American Song Contest continues tonight! WOO HOO! The US’ officially licensed Eurovision spinoff continues with twelve more performances tonight, and you can bet we’ll be there watching! Week Three’s songs have been released – here’s the playlist! Don’t forget, TKR will be presenting a YouTube livestream show, “The Kirkham Report Guide to American Song Contest – After The Songs!” every week directly following each East Coast airing of ASC, starting at 10:10 PM ET/7:10 PM PT – I will be going over my impressions of the songs, performances, staging, and more, and I’ll be doing my best to interact

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Countdown to Eurovision 2022: The Basics!

GREETINGS PEOPLES!  It’s that time of year again! The 2022 Eurovision Song Contest Countdown starts NOW! Because I got a little bit later start than usual, I will be scattering some stuff around, doing one song most days but doing two or possibly three songs on other days, just so we get done in time for the semi-finals beginning May 10th! 40 songs to be ranked, 40 artists to spotlight, plus news and other ESC related specials – all coming between now and the official broadcasts beginning with the first semifinal on May 10, followed by the second semifinal on

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BREAKING NEWS: The participants in the American Song Contest have been revealed!

I’ll have a full run down later, but for now, as released about 1 hour ago, here’s the complete list of each state/territory and their performers for the first (hopefully annual) American Song Contest, premiering March 21 on NBC! According to the Wikipedia article, the songs will not be announced until they are performed on the show, and will be released as each week’s show goes forward. Atlantic Records is the shows’ industry partner and will release the songs accordingly. As announced a couple weeks ago, Kelly Clarkson and Snoop Dogg have been named hosts of the ASC, which, in

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VIDEO: Russia’s Little Big is back with Netta in tow – “Moustache”

Satirical Russian electropop band Little Big, who wowed 2020 cancelled Eurovision fans with their hilarious across the board smash “Uno“, are back, and they’ve teamed up with Israel’s 2018 ESC winner Netta for their latest ditty! “Moustache” premiered around the world earlier  this week, and the song is good, but the video is HILARIOUS as always. Set in a world where all women have moustaches, apparently, it’s “Baywatch” meets “Law and Order” as the intrepid team of lifeguards try to discern who shaved the moustache off the winner of the beachside Miss Moustache contest…NO! I’m NOT making this shit up…It’s

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TKR on YouTube – An exciting new miniseries coming soon….

A teaser for my brand new miniseries…it was a time that some have called the greatest musical summer of all time…classic hits, classic albums, classic music…and it all happened in one six month period, and centered in one particular season…an original TKR Miniseries coming in late July…“Summer of ’78” – Please….be here!

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TKR on YouTube – Let’s Talk EUROVISION ’21!

So..all the hoopla is over and all the winners have been named…it’s time to talk Eurovision Song Contest 2021! Plus, New thumbnail design, cool new intro, new look, and news about the US’ upcoming Eurovision clone, The American Song Contest!

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Eurovision ’21: Today’s the day! Grand final predictions are here!

Eurovision Song Contest 2021  concludes today with the Grand Final, airing in the U.S. on Peacock, live at 3 PM ET/12 Noon PT Now, the 20 songs that made it through the two semi-finals are joined by the Big Five and host country The Netherlands entry, and things are gonna get real, because I’ve been checking a LOT of the fandom in the “ESCBubble” and…well, they don’t take a lot of factors into consideration. They rarely do. But I’m going to try and do so here. First up, here’s the 26 finalists in the order they will appear at today’s

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Eurovision 2021 SemiFinal #2 is History – here’s what happened!

Eurovision Song Contest 2021  streaming started on Peacock beginning at 3 PM ET/12 Noon PT. with a strong and fantastic signal – thank you! I had a couple of cutouts which made me nuts, but I got around it ok… With seventeen entries for ten spots, a few were destined to be disappointed, but there were a few shockers too  The ten songs advancing to the Grand Final on Saturday are: San Marino – “Adrenalina” by Senhit featuring Flo Rida Greece – “Last Dance” by Stefania Moldova – “Sugar” by Natalia Gordienko Iceland – “10 Years” by Dadi og Gagnamagnid

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Eurovision Semi-Final #2 is TODAY – Here’s my predictions

Eurovision Song Contest 2021 continues this afternoon – in the U.S. you can catch it live streaming on Peacock beginning at 3 PM ET/12 Noon PT. or on YouTube with an active VPN – it will be geoblocked on the U.S. service without it. The second semi-final will feature the last seventeen entries, with ten spots available to make it to Saturday’s Grand Final. The competitors today will compete in the following running order: San Marino – “Adrenalina” by Senhit featuring Flo Rida Estonia – “The Lucky One” by Uku Suviste Czech Republic – “Omaga” by Benny Cristo Greece –

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Eurovision ’21 – Dadi Freyr says Gagnamagnid likely out of live competition due to positive COVID test

Iceland’s Dadi Freyr tweeted the following message to his fans this morning: A member of Gagnamagnið got a positive test result this morning. Unfortunately this probably means that we will not take part in the rehearsal today or live show tomorrow and a recording from our second rehearsal will be used in stead. pic.twitter.com/93yravOHSY — Daði Freyr 🥑 (@dadimakesmusic) May 19, 2021 and the follow up tweet: We have all been extremely careful the whole trip so this comes as a huge surprise. We are very happy with the performance and super excited for you all to see it! Thank

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