2023 October

Monthly Archives: October 2023

31 October – Let me sway until the end of the summer

It's always sad when a country decides to sit out Eurovision. For a year is understandable, but there are a few we've not seen...

29 October – I really loved you

As you will know, every performer in our favourite TV show is a professional. They all want to do their best. Nevertheless, it must...

28 October – The palm trees and the girls on the beach of Naples

How good is your knowledge of our favourite TV show? Do you have any interest in songs that appeared in the 20th Century? Do...

27 October – Leave the windows open wide

Do you remember the start of this century/millennium? The bug was behind us and we had a whole new one hundred/one thousand years to...

26 October – Do whatcha, whatcha, whatcha want

It's always exciting when a country débuts in our favourite TV show. Over 40 countries have participated, and there's always rumour of more débuts...

25 October – I hear the cries of the birds in the wind

Do you like a close contest? One where the lead changes many times, with a winner only emerging towards the very end? A runaway...

Exciting news from *checks notes* Greece

It seems that the readers of this site who are "on da pulse" of the Eurovision Song Contest will already know this but... NEW NEWS! It...

24 October – Love sometimes so splendidly hurts

Did you know the first official Eurovision semi-finals in 2004 weren't the inaugural international pre-selections for our favourite TV show? There was one in...

23 October – ‘Cause you got what I want, what I want, what I...

False-flagger alert! Well, of sorts. It's one of those days when the worlds of false flaggers and persistent triers collide. With criminal results, you...

22 October – I’m still the one, and I’ll always be

You have to admire our friends in Portugal. It took them 167 attempts to get the win in 2017. But before Salvador did his...