2019 January
Monthly Archives: January 2019
31 January – The only treasure I’ll ever have
People win the contest. From time to time anyway. There could be some contests where no song should have won, and the EBU should...
Danes – great and otherwise – make Eurovision bid
Ten songs are to compete for the right to represent Denmark at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest. Danish broadcaster DR today announced the line-up...
30 January – Na, na-na, na-na-na, na-na
We have our fair share of ballads, floor-fillers and other songs with very carefully crafted lyrics, designed to reel in the casual voter and...
Finnish DJ gives Eurovision a go
YLE has talked Finnish DJ Darude into representing his homeland at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest. He'll present three songs at the UMK contest...
Don’t it make my brown eyes … Austrian TV picks Eurovision singer
'Whenever I wake up in the morning, I just look like a panda around my eyes!' So says PAENDA (her caps), who was today...
29 January – We were walking in old Bruxelles
I mentioned yesterday that songs had certain themes. Usually involving love. And, thankfully, very rarely about domestic abuse. But there are certain get outs...
28 January – Mama let the devil in her house
Isn't it always the way that most songs have themes running through them. Falling in love, falling out of love, tributes, those sorts of...
Return to Drawer or Paid in full – what have those Czechs gone and...
In a literally no-expense-spent setting of a loft in CT House, the Czech Republic team staged a press conference to announce their entrant today.
Using...
Six qualifiers from this Romanian Shenanigans
Tonight, TVR (Romanian Television) had the first semifinal of their selection show, Selecţia naţională.
Eleven songs participated in this, the smaller of the two semi...
Or one who loves his dinner
Don't you just love a lyric like that? It conjures up all sorts of images of what the previous line could be. Or the...