Andorra – Gone with the wind
The song in itself inst half bad - quite uptempo and poppy - but she looks to be wearing her mother's old bed sheets...
Slovakia – Out of Order – Swapped with Armenia
So, suddenly, back into Semi Final 2 for the 'Eurovision Shouting Contest'. For a couple singing a duet, as has been said before, they...
Faraway in an English country garden
With our arena correspondents having wandered off to see other bits of Moscow, I'm left playing catch-up once again.
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I'm not struck...
Hungary – Oh this is going through!!
Phil: In my opinion anyway. MTV may well have been very shrewd here in allowing their third choice song through to this bit of...
Eurovision 2009 – A view from afar
Now, to my Jaded eye (do you see what I did there?), none of these looked half bad - until the last 30 seconds...
So much for the afternoon shift…
OK. Let's look back on today in Moscow, as that's really what we're all here for.
Israel - almost entirely pleasant. A few worrying fluffs...
Bosnia worries me…
Phil: Now you'll know from previous years at this contest that I don't understand Balkan ballads and I particularly don't understand why they come...
Macedonia – Where on earth did THAT come from?!
Phil: This is going to be a complete contrast between the three songs that have come before. I didn't give Next Time a prayer...
Turkey-lurkey
Franko: We've only had a sound check so far and it's already streets ahead of anything else that's been on today. It's not only...
Welcome to do an Andorran day….
Franko: Some you assembled readers will know of my unfortunate experience with a drunk Andorran singer after the 2004 semi final and some of...