19 March – Float with me, let everything turn into fire
Your eyes are not deceiving you today, and I've not got any madder. But you wait ages for a Norwegian birthday, and then two...
12 August – Forwards, forwards and never backwards
You must have been thinking that I'm only picking the birthdays of recent performers. That is, in part, true. I know many of you...
17 September – The whole world laughs with me
I like picking up on people's big birthdays. So when this one came around, I had to celebrate it. It's a singer who sang...
21 October – I want a sea of wheat
I love a fun old lyric, like the one above. It makes you wonder what the songwriter was thinking when they wrote it down...
27 November – Who can I turn to?
צְפַת/Tzfat. What's the secret to a good song? Has it changed over the years? Well it obviously has. Back in the day, some countries...
10 January – Asking for a simple happy life
Here's another trailblazer. In other words, this person sang the first ever song for this country. But she's blazed such a trail, no-one has...
17 April – Until a voice came through into my head
I mentioned people who came back for a second try yesterday. There have been plenty of them, with varying degrees of success. You must...
2 July – Are you still so deaf to ask me...
Do you think the influx of countries after 2004 has made a difference? Are they just there to make the numbers up, or do...
23 August – You’re looking forward for the night to come
Imagine how you'd feel. You're on the Eurovision stage, you're giving it everything, and things don't go quite as well as expected.
This is all...
21 October – I wanna tell a story
All songs tell a story, don't they? Whether it's about finding love, losing love, or salmon. You don't believe me? Well listen to Maywood's...