2014
Yearly Archives: 2014
Poland – Absolutely BRILLIANT
There are 106 men on the jury this year - and when this gets through to the final, which is surely must with the...
Maltese meadow and Israeli struts…
There's a sentence I'll never again utter....
Malta
Is it a wheat field? Is it a cornfield? Is it a meadow? Does it really matter? This...
It’s not just about the songs, Philly…
Ooh hello, it's me again. You may have seen me on TV (No? *sulk*) and thought I was too hoity toity for this larky...
Three Georgian minutes to never get back
Georgia is probably the strangest three minutes you'll hear this Eurovision. We have a saying that once you've heard a Eurovision song three times...
Norway – looks very strong but….
This is the first one that I have seen in the hall properly and it was.... a tad underwhelming to be honest. It just...
There’s a Norwegian storm brewing
Norway now. Little has changed since the national final, this is still shot largely close up and intimately with a few long shots. It...
Semi two and I’m already two songs behind! Aargh! More coffee!!
Good morning Europe. As you know we are struggling a little bit today due to excesses in the alcohol department and a later then...
Israel, strut, strut, strut, pout, strut
WOW! If you want a dark horse it isn't going to come much darker than this. This, Tanja from Estonia, is amazing. The stage...
Israel….. I’m alarmed..
To my tired old eyes, this has got no better. Mei still seems to be shouting at me quite a lot and, from me...
Malta is very pleasant to start us off
First up today we have Malta. They're standing in a line singing this as you'd expect, and it's very effective. There are some big...