Radio International - The Ultimate Eurovision Experience (2024-10-16): Interview with Tini Kainrath of the Rounder Girls (Austria 2000), Tribute to Martin Lee of the Brotherhood of Man (UK 1976)

Radio International - The Ultimate Eurovision Experience is broadcast from Malta's Radio 105FM on Tuesday evenings from 2100 - 0059 hours CET. The show is also broadcast on SWITCH Radio Europe in the United Kingdom live on Wednesday evenings from 1900 - 2300 hours CET as well as on the Facebook Page of Eurovision Radio International with an interactive chatroom.

 

AT A GLANCE - ON THE SHOW THIS WEEK

• Interview with Tini Kainrath of the Rounder Girls (Austria 2000) done at the OGAE Germany Convention 2024 in Munich, Germany
• Tribute to Martin Lee of the Brotherhood of Man (United Kingdom 1976, Winners)
• Eurovision Spotlight:  The History of Switzerland at the Eurovision Song Contest with Dermot Manning
• Eurovision News with Nick van Lith from www.escXtra.com
• Eurovision Birthday File with David Mann
• Eurovision Cover Spot with David Mann
• Eurovision Calendar with Javier Leal
• Eurovision 2025 and Junior Eurovision 2024 National Final Updates with Alain Forrotti
• New Music Releases by Eurovision Artists
• Your music requests

Tini Kainrath of the Rounder Girls at the OGAE Germany Convention 2024 in Munich, Germany

Interview with Tini Kainrath of the Rounder Girls (Austria 2000): This week's interview is with Tini Kainrath of the Rounder Girls who  represented Austria at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2000 in Stockholm, Sweden with the song "All to you" coming 14th. Unfortunately, The Rounder Girls seized to exist due to the passing of one of the three members. Since then Tini continued with solo projects. Find out the details on the interview you can hear on this week's edition of Radio International.
The Radio International Inteview Team had the pleasure to meet Tini at the OGAE Germany Annual Convention 2024 in January.

 
 

Martin Lee of the Brotherhood of Man (United Kingdom 1976) passed away

Tribute to Martin Lee of the Brotherhood of Man (United Kingdom 1976): On 29 September 2024 the Eurovision Community received the said news that Martin Lee of the Brotherhood of Man has passed away at the age of 77 after a short illness. Brotherhood of Man won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1976 with the song "Save your kisses for me" and following that they had a string of hits such as "Figaro" and "Angelo", just mention a few. JP from Radio International had the pleasure in meeting the group for an interview at the OGAE Germany Convention 2020. Please find the show show with the interview at this link - click here.
Radio International will be broadcasting a tribute to Martin Lee on the show this week and play some of his music before joining the Brotherhood of Man.

 

Eurovision Spotlight - The History of Switzerland at the Eurovision Song Contest: The Eurovision Song Contest 2024 was won by Nemo who represented Switzerland in Malmoe, Sweden this year with the song "The Code". With that victory Nemo took the contest back to Switzerland where it all begun in 1956 with the late Lys Assia from Switzerland being the first Winner of the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Refrain". Celine Dion from Canada represented and won for Switzerland with the song "Ne partez pas sans moi" in 1988 giving Switzerland three victories.
As a tradition the Team of Radio International reviews all the Eurovision entries of the upcoming host country and this week Dermot Manning continues the series in the Eurovision Spotlight taking a look at the Swiss entries to Eurovision.

Also JP will be joined by David Mann for the Eurovision Birthday File and Eurovision Coverspot.  Nick will be presenting the Eurovision News courtesy of escXtra.com. There will be a lot of the great new releases of Eurovision artists on the show as well as great Eurovision Classics. Javier will be updating us on the upcoming Eurovision events in the Eurovision Calendar and and and....

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