Monty reviews Belgium & Finland, and looks forward to tomorrow

Belgium Phil has the right adjective for this: adequate. There’s nothing in it which is distasteful, unpleasant, or even vaguely wrong, but yet still it’s...

Belgium – Last but one

Still the question remains.."Would you"?? Anyway - back to the performance - it's....adequate, i think its safe to say.  The song itself doesn't set the...

Has anyone got the karaoke version?

I got to 1:16 of their 2nd rehearsal and both Nick and I said "No, no more" - Nick further commented that it's a...

Downtime

I have a few idle moments from my day job, so I can catch up on stuff. The catering here at the press centre...

Juke Box Fury – second semi final part one

Yes we're back after another night of scabby food and beer at the Euroclub. How are you this morning? Ralph: feeling a bit ruff Drashig: hale...

Roster schmoster

Apparently it's my turn to do some rehearsal blogging, on pain of being banned from the cake counter of the Cafe Bonnen. It's all...

Good morning Oslo – four rehearsals in one

The detractors among you will still notice that the Finns have done nothing significantly different from their national final performance, which is a good...

Belgium – This year they’ve cracked it!

Ah. Much more like it. A competent singer singing what is probably the best song we've seen so far. Some would say that less is...

A morning round up

So, my morning at Eurovision 2009. I won't even try to discuss everyone, just the three or four that had time to have any...

The land of the invaded AKA Bel – gee-um

Franko: Yes it's bad Elvis impersonator time along with hideous song. The staging is the most striking so far in that they bothered to...