2017
Yearly Archives: 2017
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown – Finland
Blackbird by Norma John
The Finnish final once again didn’t fail to delight. There’s more than plenty to pick over for those, like me, compiling...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown – Estonia
Verona by Koit Toome & Laura
“Sleeping all alone, you wake up with a butt on your hands” sings Laura in the song’s opening line....
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown – Denmark
Denmark – Where I Am by Anja Nissen
Time now for the entry from Australia. Oh, wait. We’ve already had that. This could have been...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown – Czech Republic
Czech Republic – My Turn by Martina Bárta
From the very, very first time I heard that clunking repetition in the opening line of this...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown – Cyprus
Cyprus – Gravity by Hovig
When the Cypriots finished sixth on their debut in 1981, and better by a further position in the following Contest, I...
Eurovision 2017 ‘Seven months behind schedule on the first day’
Nobody can deny the road to the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest has been rocky. What with mass resignations, problems with tickets, entry bans and...
Eurovision Countdown 2017 – Part 2
We're still here - unlike the Russians if you believe what you read everywhere. OnEurope's pundits continue to delight with ill-informed ramblings about the songs competing...
4 April – I’ll never go back to the clouds
Remember our heritage. Our favourite TV show started in 1956, has been in colour since about 1968, and has had lots of different voting...
tl;dr Russia out of Eurovision this year
On 22 March, the Ukrainian Security Service barred Russia’s entrant to the Eurovision Song Contest from entering Ukraine. They told Julia Samoylova that she...
3 April – Say the magic word
Are you excited that our favourite miniseries of TV shows is on next month? It's getting so close now, and all of the stars...