2017

Yearly Archives: 2017

Triana Park at Eurovision

Latvia: lovely boots and not a willy in sight

Triana Park complete the first semi-final with an energetic performance. She looks great, with a multi-length hairdo, chopped with sharp edges, in yellow and...
Omar Naber

Hello? – Rotherham Grand? – Your lounge singer has turned up…

... Omar looks like he has a ten-year residency at said hotel, and is lazily singing his way through this song. But no amount...
Omar

Slovenia: beam me up, Omar

Omar from Slovenia is up now. I’ve already commented in my Countdown how I think he’s got an uphill struggle, and he’s not really...
Artsvik

Day Six begins with Armenia…. worryingly

It's a very good place to start. The start of the song has lots of camera cuts - indeed death by a thousand cuts, no...
Artsvik

Armenian amazeballs

My first rehearsal to blog this year: Armenia is AMAZEBALLS! First rehearsal of the day and Artsvik’s performance is stunning! It’s very simple, her...
Hovig

Gravity or gravitas

We're having some sound issues in the press centre again - as we were the last time Cyprus rehearsed. The conspirators amongst you might think...
Marta on stage

I know who she reminds me of now

ROMINA POWER! For the avoidance of doubt, he left her... But back to the song. To be honest we had a problem technique here so my...
Fan Village

En route (well actually I’m already here)

And we're off! 4.30am alarm, who says Eurovision is glamorous? I'm currently mid-flight, dear reader, although you'll not be reading this until after I've...
Svala at Eurovision

ow … paper cut?

This has thankfully improved immeasurably from the low base that it was back on Monday. Svala has opened the locker entitled "Notes", studied them...
Sunstroke Project

Love and Marriage, go together like a horse and …

... no, not another horse, more like the one-trick pony that this was always going to be - but one thing you can say...