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"Changed The Way You Kiss Me" - Example. Apologies to the man here, but I'd always viewed Elliot Gleave - a.k.a Example - as a...

"Yeah Right" - Dionne Bromfield. 15 year old Londoner Dionne Bromfield is probably best known for being the god-daughter of the la...

Firstly, this is my 2000th post on EuropeCrazy, so it's highly appropriate that it should be devoted to introducing what has become an a...

Today Serbia and Belgium announced the names of the singers who will represent their countries at the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest. Due to f...

The annual Swedish Music Publishers awards took place on Friday 11th November at Berns in Stockholm, honouring the country's most succes...

Today brought the exciting announcement of the song titles and songwriters for Melodifestivalen 2012. This is the guesswork stage, where we ...

The backlog of blog posts are all written and posted, and my work here is done. Yes, I'm going to take another blog-break until mid-Nov...

...yes it's that time again to start reading the Swedish tabloids and guessing how many of the rumours are true. Today Aftonbladet poste...

Regular readers of this blog will be aware of how much I loved "Sounds of Europe" which was a weekly radio show on student radio s...

I previously blogged about London-based Irish singer Bressie (Niall Breslin) back in September, http://europecrazy.blogspot.com/2011/09/int...

If the rumours are to be believed, this could be the last series of "HARRY HILL'S TV BURP" (ITV1, Saturday). I suppose all goo...

On the second day of our holiday, poor faithful travelling companion was floored by a very nasty stomach bug which made him very ill, he cou...

We are only 7 days away from the launch of the 2nd series of one of the most exciting reality TV formats ever! http://www.tv4.se/1.2137245/2...

Lots of good intentions to get up very early failed to materialise. (Oh, and talking of 'good intentions': my plan for today was to ...

Courtesy of Aftonbladet, here's what the contestants will be singing this week...you'll have guessed that the theme is Swedish-langu...

Lots of thoughts going round in my head today which I thought I'd pull together into some kind of blog post. Been thinking about my annu...

One of my favourite blogs is Scandipop . Now the blog is about to become a TV show from tomorrow. Dance Nation TV (channel 376 on Sky) will ...

Three years on from a chilly November weekend, we returned to the Irish capital for a brief late summer break. It may be a long way from the...

In the "old days" when I had much more time to blog than I do now (although I really don't know why I don't have as much ...

In keeping with the Irish theme which has dominated recent weeks, I thought it would be very fitting to feature the ultimate Irish music/dan...

On 22nd September, Tomas Ledin began his 55-night residency at Rondo in Liseberg, Gothenburg. The 1 hour 50 minute show mixes live performan...

It's been a while since the last one so what's been happening in the Sverige Topplistan charts? In the album chart, Melissa Horn is ...

Any posts about food and drink would usually be found over at Random Ramblings, but in this instance I felt that it would be more appropriat...

So we're off to Dublin for a short break tomorrow. This blog will be back next weekend.

Whilst researching the Irish iTunes chart to get some inspiration with a view towards possible purchases during my forthcoming Dublin trip, ...

Drum roll...... We're going to Dublin next week for a few days' break!! Very excited! Needless to say, "The Dublin Diaries...

Two weeks late, but it's here anyway... BBC Four had a 'foreign pop' themed night, the centrepiece being "Anyone For Demis?...

In the words of one of the 1980s most hideous hits by Charlene, "I've never been to me". Now what does that have to do with th...

You may (or probably may not) ask yourself what makes me choose the songs/singers for Retro Saturday. Sometimes it's just a song which p...

I first heard "Alla Behöver Nån (Nångång)" by Cajsalisa Ejemyr a few years ago now, but it has stayed fresh and I never get bored ...

Almost 4 years ago to the day, I wrote an appreciative post about Gemini, the duo comprised of Swedish brother and sister Anders and Karin G...

In an interview in Allt om Stockholm, http://www.alltomstockholm.se/start/article2544021.aos one of our favourite Swedish artists Oskar Lin...

My July viewing was totally dominated by the Tour de France, which was totally fabulous this year from beginning to end, spoiled (IMHO) only...