2025 April
Monthly Archives: April 2025
Eurovision Countdown 2025: Albania is ‘anguished’
Albania
Shkodra Elektronike – Zjerm
In theory, Zjerm has everything you'd expect from a classic Albanian Eurovision entry: anguished vocal lines, regional instrumentation, and a sense...
4 April – You can try to put me in a box
Do you have a favourite stage prop of all time? Is it a staircase used by the UK in 2009? The collection of pictures...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 – Part 0 – That elephant again
It's been twelve months since I wrote the original version of this but it's still as relevant today.
I fervently believe a majority of my...
3 April – Baby, you’re the only one (One, one, one, one)
Things got a little odd at the turn of the century. We were trapped in Nordic/Baltic Europe after time in the eastern Med. Countries...
2 April – May all the world’s candles burn for us
Over the years, some countries have been gunning for a win, only for that time to pass without success. They then slip back into...
1 April – I am avoiding all my friends
Do you have a favourite contest of all time? One where every song hits the mark, the host(s) do their job to perfection, and...