2011

Yearly Archives: 2011

Esprit Arena

Stuff

I've now had time to get settled into the press centre today. It's really busy now, so either I'm getting paranoid or I'll be...

Little chance of history repeating

Israel and I tend to agree with AKOE on this one, to be honest. Dana International looked and sounded hideous in Eurovision 2011, and...

I’ve received a question from a Mrs. Trellis of North Wales…

...and it's a fairly sensible and serious one, unusually. "Are there any performances and stagings this year which are likely to cause problems for...
Vlatko Ilievski

Time for a quick break

The only redeeming feature for this song is the fact that the 3d lettering on the backdrop looks very effective..... effectively removing your eyes...
Poli Genova

Pretty Poli

To me this just gets better and better. Poli struts about the stage and down the catwalk like she owns it (!) and sings...
Christos Mylordos

Drop those big money balls

It looks hideous - Christos and his gang don't need to be swaying about the stage and the woman with the big balls doesn't...
Eric Saade

I love the sound of breaking glass

Oh Dear - Eric Saade's third rehearsal - so to speak -sounded somewhat breathy towards the end for my liking - I don't think that he has the...
Euroclub

Apparently there’s a Eurovision Song Contest in town soon

Euroclubs sind gefährliche Orte. Sie ziehen Sie in, bombardieren Sie mit Musik unterschiedlicher degress der Glaubwürdigkeit, und machen Sie Urlaub denken, dass die mittelmäßigen...

The Bosnian dangerman

Now then, in a night of party filth, my first impulse was to walk away from the pop tunes and head off to the...
Zdob și Zdub

Straight out of the dressing up box

Following on from Slovak weddings, I also often wonder: "What could I do with a bugle, a traffic cone and a disused unicycle..." - clearly TVM...