2018 February
Monthly Archives: February 2018
28 February – Forests could still sing
Remember when betting was a small simple affair. You bet on a song to win, or one of those each way things? Life was...
Sounds familiar – not at Eurovision
There are those who suggest you can tell a Eurovision song a mile off. They'd go so far as to suggest they all sound...
27 February – Your silky sheets and breakfast on blue balconies
I've picked a random video today for your enjoyment. It's definitely a song I enjoy although I realise it could be a song that...
26 February – I searched for myself, here and in other countries
Does it ever confuse you when you can't quite work out who is the lead singer in an act? Jump the Gun is a...
Are we dancers? No, we’re humans … if you’re Romanian
So, after FIVE semi finals in various weird and wonderful locations around Romania - including an actual salt mine - a professional jury and...
Sevak Khanagyan bags Armenian Eurovision job
Armenia will send its first entirely non-English entry to the Eurovision Song Contest this year. Sevak Khanagyan was declared the winner of Depi Evratesil 2018 with...
Rice rice baby … Has Latvia sent a tasty dish … or is it...
She seriously can't be called Laura Rizzotto, can she? Apparently that is her real name and she's from that often under-utilised demographic of "Latvian-Brazilian"...
25 February – I become an explosion in front of you
You have to admire those that keep coming back time after time. The first couple of times, you sing a song written by your...
A Dal – From deep in the bowels of hell
As Roy D Hacksaw would say, death to juries, as they nearly didn't get the winner through to the superfinal, where the public voted...
Vidbir 2018 – Ukraine sends Melatonin? – no. Melovin
Well it wasn't like anyone could see this coming - the favourite all along has obliged in Ukraine with Mélovin winning the televote by...