Shai’s Eurovision Countdown 2026 – Part Thirteen – Finland
Finland - Liekinheitin - Is the hot favourite to win
I think we can split the reaction to the Finnish song into 2 camps. The...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2026 – Part Thirteen – Finland
Finland – Linda and Pete – Liekinheitin
Now this is more fucking like it.  There were only ever two songs in UMK for me and...
Eurovision 2026 Review: Finland
Finland heads to Vienna with Linda Lampenius and Pete Parkkonen’s ‘Liekinheitin’. It won the increasingly brilliant UMK in Tampere with the sort of crushing...
16 March – There’s no need to be carrying a frown
The Eurovision fortnight can be a long two weeks if they don't quite go your way. You turn up in the host city a...
14 Mar – Do you remember that sweetest night
For your viewing pleasure in these exceptional times, we're going back to a simpler age. A time of cosy contests all over in one...
Here’s tonight’s classifed results check with Mr Phil
Even *I* can't do eight articles all by myself so, instead of that, I've decided to do one massive page updated as as when...
20 February – I hear you screaming
Do you often wonder why some countries haven't won the top prize in our favourite TV show more often? Those countries with, perhaps, only...
28 January – We were restless, confused
Remember 2020? Yep, that crazy time when the world ground to a halt, no-one could go out, and our favourite TV show was cancelled....
And Finland tops off a day of news
After a huge day of news with all sorts of people saying all sorts of things, Finland (where they speak in thousand letter words),...
19 December – You are history to me
There have been many occasions when a Eurovision act has been a family affair. Maybe some people only trust parents/partners/siblings/children to help them out,...