Hungary – a glorious shouty mess
Spoiler alert: I still hate this song.
However, having said that (and I said it on Wednesday as well), this song knows what it is....
Haynana nanana… haynana nanana…
Your Wednesday needs brightening up, so we're going a little bit uptempo, and a little bit Magyar for your viewing pleasure. And if you're...
Who made it through in Hungary?
The final heat of Hungary’s A Dal 2019 aired this evening, and we now have the eighteen acts that will take us through the...
Give a little war back to the world
It’s the 60th contest, of course: a time to reflect on 25 years ago, when I was young and thought that earnest exhortation to...
Joci Pápai to represent Hungary in Kiev
Joci Pápai is the proud owner of a man bun and the right to represent Hungary at the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest.
Earlier tonight, he...
A Dal rolls towards grand final
A second A Dal semi-final this evening in Budapest saw four more songs through to next week’s grand final.
In the first round of voting,...
22 September – Mysterious forces were in childhood
Eurovision these days is all about English, isn't it? No other language gets a look in, does it? English is always the way forward.
It...
Hungary – I like Boggie…. everybody should
I like this song. Possibly because I was forced, at gunpoint, to watch A Dal for six weeks for Eurovision Ireland, so I have...
A Dal’s Final heat – but its nowhere near over!
The final ten songs line up for A Dal from Budapest. A quick reminder of how this will go: all ten songs will be...
28 October – The sun is going down, and it’s about...
What was it that drew you into Eurovision? The costumes? The glorious melodies? For us, it was the languages. Where else could you have...