2024 December
Monthly Archives: December 2024
29 December – I need truth
Is there the right age to be taking part in our favourite TV show? Should you be a fresh-faced teenager? Or is the right...
28 December – My heart can love for the both of us
Some songs are just so good they get roundly ignored by the televoters and juries of Europe (and beyond). Other times, they get what...
27 December – Get your groove on, get a move on
It's that odd time when we've all got over Christmas (unless you're orthodox) and we're waiting for that end digit to tick over to...
25 December – Tell me now, do you feel this burning desire?
It's always good to see instruments on a stage, and even better of the singers are playing them. And it's a bonus if they're...
24 December – The past is forgotten and everything is starting over
To be true to your own country's sound or not? That is the question. If you do, you get kudos in your own country...
23 December – I play with the sand between my feet
Do you admire countries for sticking to their own languages? Or do you wish they can all sing in a tongue you can understand?
Our...
Well that went well – Not Karnaval then….
After three nights that we have totally ignored because it's nearly Christmas, RTSH finally announced their fifteen finalists for FiK63. Thus year, seemingly, there...
22 December – We’ll be joined forever no matter what way we go
Our friends in the Netherlands have been at all-but-four of the contests, so are generally firmly in love with it. Even so, they've had...
20 December – Your hands were holding mine
Our friends in Italy are an interesting case study. Their relationship with the Eurovision Song Contest seems more love/hate than most. And there's a...
After you, Claude? The Dutch have spoken.
So after months of being butthurt and telling all and sundry they'd never be in the contest again... AVROTROS' volte-face is complete as they...