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Monthly Archives: April 2025
Eurovision Countdown 2025: Belgium is vaguely threatening
BelgiumStrobe Lights – Red Sebastian
Belgium has sent in the fog machine early this year, accompanied by something that approximates a song if you squint...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 – Part 5/37 – Azerbaijan
AZERBAIJAN – Run With U – Mamagama
Another song that X tells me I shouldn’t like or be listening to because **checks notes** Azerbaijan. Anyway...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 – Part 4/37 – Austria
AUSTRIA – Wasted Love - JJ
“Let’s put a song into the contest that is similar to last year’s winner” never goes down well, but...
Eurovision Countdown 2025: Azerbaijan is gloriously slippy
Azerbaijan
Magagama - Run with you
Magagama (not, as it turns out, a Pokémon evolution) offers up a track that’s equal parts time-travelling synth nostalgia and...
Nick “does” 2025 – Azerbaijan
AZERBAIJAN – Run With U – Mamagama
Azerbaijan have quietly been in Eurovision for 17 years now. I reject this timeline and indeed reality in...
9 April – In London it always rains, but today it doesn’t hurt
If you could put money on the next country of the Big Five to win, who would you pick? Italy was the last of...
Nick “does” 2025 – Austria
AUSTRIA – Wasted Love - JJ
Dearest reader, it has been brought to my attention that my marks appear a little, shall we say, eccentric...
8 April – No air, no pride
It wasn't so long ago we were going Dutch in Rotterdam. Our friends in the Netherlands have a rich past going right back to...
Eurovision Countdown 2025: Austria is ‘full-throttle’
Austria
JJ – Wasted Love
You can almost hear the pitch meeting: a fragile opening line, a trembling upper register, then bam—crank up the production, cue...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 – Part 3/37 – Australia
AUSTRALIA – Milkshake Man – Go-Jo
I wish to open this with a spoiler. This might be the shortest and possibly most sweary thing you’ll...