Ireland, Slovenia, Denmark and Poland

Ireland - Joe McCall is god!! - He is fantastic!! He came over to our table in our drinking binge after TV's Roy Delaney...

When Irish eyes are falling…

So the lovely Irish lot thought it'd be a nice idea to do a bit of Irish dancing on the press conference tables. And...

Late morning and early afternoon musings

Apologies if this is either late or incoherent - blame John Stanton - he single handedly liquefied Lunch!! - the one that, at 3.06...

Romania – First thing

Well second time round it is still as bouncy as ever - Luminta jumps around the stage like a good one - the boys...

Belgium , Estonia and Norway

Belgium - He is still very VERY static - he has a slappable face and boy, will Europe want to do that as well....

Netherlands and, the fantastic, Iceland

Glennis has a fantastic voice, and, even though Nick wanted me to slap her, I just can't. Her dream, improbable at the start of...

Afternoon all – gubbins and rehearsals that we may have seen…

.....well we've had three so far this afternoon - Latvia, Monaco and Israel...... We have seen most of all of them - certainly enough...

Belarus – Conventional Wisdom Vs real life

Conventional wisdom dictates that this is a good song with a great singer - unfortunately conventional wisdom is a bag of old tripe. It's...

Meanwhile, out in the real world …

After the Moldovan excitement I thought it’d be nice to go out in the sunshine and have a stroll about. Well, it is lovely...

Moldova – Feck yes!

Yay! It's the Moldovans! They've finally turned up, and they're shite hot white hot stuff! Lots of folk punk leaping about, and a little old lady...