Shai’s Eurovision Countdown 2026 – Part Six – Belgium

Belgium - Dancing on the Ice - Is not bad.  Really, it is not a bad song, but somehow it feels like they run out...

Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2026 – Part Six – Belgium

Belgium – Essyla – Dancing on the Ice.  Image my disgust, dear reader, when I checked the lyrics out and realised that this song was...

Eurovision 2026 Review: Belgium

Belgium’s 2026 entry is ESSYLA with ‘Dancing on the Ice’, revealed internally by RTBF in February. It feels like a fairly deliberate piece of...

Shai’s Eurovision Countdown 2026 – Part Five – Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan - Just Go - is supposed to be a big ballad A ballad is not a bad thing. A good ballad will stir your...

Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2026 – Part Five – Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan – JIVA – Just Go. I don’t, dear reader , usually launch into an expletive-laden rant but fucking hell fire, Azerbaijan, what the holy...

Eurovision 2026 Review: Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan’s 2026 entry is JIVA with ‘Just Go’, internally selected by İTV and set for the first half of the second semi-final. That already...

Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2026 – Part Four – Austria

Austria.  Cosmo – Tanzschein.  Cosmo was the name of an all you can eat Buffet in the fair city of Nottingham – you could get...

Eurovision 2026 Review: Austria

Austria’s host entry for Vienna 2026 is COSMÓ with ‘Tanzschein’, selected through ORF’s national final Vienna Calling – Who Will Sing for Austria? on...

Shai’s Eurovision Countdown 2026 – Part Four – Austria

Austria - Tanzschein - is not winning again.  This will be the last song we hear in the Saturday night final. And I think it’s...

Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2026 – Part Three – Australia

Australia - Delta Goodrem - Eclipse Well now, Australia have played their Eurovision Uno Reverse card here and gave the gays – sorry “fans” what...