The convention starts at 12.30 CET and will last until 17.00 CET. Next to Maxine & Franklin Brown , Michelle (who represented the Netherlands at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2001 with Out on my own ) and several artists

Priory Folk, Thu 8th May, The Priory, Nanpantan, 8.30pm

Thu 8th Pluck: The Specialists Tue 20th Silly Billy Sun 25th Shoo Shoo Baby Wed 28th Tanglefoot Thu 29th Lipsticks And Lollipops [Deafinitely Theatre] Fri 30th Barry And Stuart: Part-Time Warlocks

Released on 2 June, 'Radiohead: The Best Of’, is the first ever Radiohead career retrospective and is a compilation of Radiohead songs spanning their 12 year recording career.

Exhibition Preview - Fragile Democracy at The Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art , Sunderland, until June 21 2008. A new exhibition of photography at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art in Sunderland brings together a selection of photographers and artists

The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has announced a grant of £4 million for the Black Cultural Archives (BCA) to help convert a listed building in the centre of Brixton into a permanent home.

The show takes place on Wednesday, 07 May 2008 from 2000 - 2300 CET live on FM in the Netherlands but also around the World online.

Charlotte Perrelli is not new to the Eurovision Song Contest as she won the 1999 Eurovision Song Contest in Jerusalem with Take me to your heaven . This year she makes a comeback to the Eurovision scene with her uptempo

After revealing the United Kingdom, Belgium and France, Eurovision.tv exclusively reports that the winner of the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest will also come to Finland, Sweden and Norway! (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/11304)

Mikko and Jaana did an extradionary job last year by hosting the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest in Helsinki. Viewers all over Europe were dazzled with their humour, hospitality and charm.

OGAE Poland has awarded Sweden with yet another 12 points and not much changes in the current OGAE Poll for the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest. Sweden now leads with a huge difference of 102 points from current runner up Switzerland.

Ballads rule the Austrian vote as three of them take the first places, leaving Sweden, the ruling queen of this year's OGAE Poll in fourth place, followed by Norway and Azerbaijan.

With the Swiss vote, Armenia and Iceland tie in fourth place, Russia moves up to ninth place, Greece drops to number 10.

During the afternoon TV show, an unexpected surprise awaited Dima at the studio of STAR Channel: his Greek Fan Club welcomed him with flowers and cameras. Dima performed his 2006 entry Never let you go , this year's entry Believe