Hungarians get the Eurovision blues

Phil: I have just witnessed the first goose bump moment of the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest from an unlikely source. The Hungarian lady, who's...

And-orra to the wonning?? I should possibly think so

Phil: Much to my shock, this has everything. Nice boys singing a grungy song, 3/4 length trousers, shouting OI in all the right places...

Touch my Bond

Only going to watch a couple of run throughs here, as it's nearly lunchtime and there's an hour's break in the schedule after this...

Bosnia might just stand out

It's going through, definitely. Bosnia and Herzegovina’s “Lejla”, performed by Hari Mata Hari, has enough difference between it and the others to make the...

Polished Turkey

Again - another one going through without much doubt. Even with 4 sexy British Dancers (and one of the group "Pop") - It looks...

Russia – a seat in many churches

Russia is going through to the final without a shadow of doubt. Dima is performing a very good pop song, and he has the...

Touch my bonfire

For FYR Macedonia, Elena Risteska sounds like Javine. She even looks like Javine. But she’ll get a better result. The comparison is with Javine Hylton’s...

Severine Fevrier to face trial for crimes against music

Archive note: the performer referred to here as “Severine Fevrier” was Severina Vučković, representing Croatia with “Moja štikla” at the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest...

Belarus – can’t make a word out

Not a hope in hell of getting anywhere. Europe are still not going to understand that there was an English lyric to this song...

Andorra – Jesus god!!

I suspect in 2:00 time she'll start wailing for no apparent reason. She still wears the black dress and does all sorts of business...