ESC birthdays 12/4 – Hello, High
I'm not totally fixated about 2004 I hope you understand. It just seemed that to participate in 2004 you needed to have a birthday...
ESC birthdays 10/4 – What’s happened to your song?
2004. A year of momentous change. We got our first proper semi-final held in the same city as the Grand Final. If you had...
ESC birthdays 9/4 – Is she everything you want?
Some interesting claims are made about some Eurovision performers. There's one who's sold millions and millions of records, but turned up in a bad...
ESC birthdays 8/4 – Watch out for those flamingoes
The Dutch have had a good run lately. No finalists since 2005, and then two in a row. As you'll see from my review,...
ESC birthdays 7/4 – Hit or miss, kiss, kiss, bang?
Europe can be a conservative place when it wants to be. Throw in a Hebrew transsexual or bloke with a beard in a ballgown,...
ESC birthdays 6/4 – Hold on, Eurovision is soon
The United Kingdom of stuff hosted a great show last week. I know, as I sneaked into the place where it happened. I liked...
ESC birthdays 5/4 – You’re not alone with Oneurope
Sometimes songs are given the status of favourites for no apparent reason. Take 2014 for instance, Conchita of the sausage was up there due...
ESC birthdays 4/4 – Don’t let the firefly s*it on your...
Our friends in Cyprus try hard. Who would love to go to Afrodite's Isle for two weeks of sun-drenched Eurovision madness? Me for one....
ESC birthdays 2/4 – He is like a faithful dog
We've not had a south-western European birthday for a while (darn that Scandi-Balkan alliance). So it's about time we hit sunny Spain. Today's birthday...
ESC birthdays 1/4 – On a plane to Oslo?
Do you want a classic tune? One worthy of this time when we're celebrating 60 years of hit after hit after hit? Well today...