Hacksaw Calling!
Hello Hello... ***Schpartt*** is this thing on?
Ah yes, hello. Here we are, sat in some big hall in Helsinki, behind OnEurope Major and Minor...
Evridiki channels Saint Carola of Stockholm
Nick: Looks like the real wallpaper's arrived... the Commodore 64 look has gone, to be replaced by a particularly attractive animated doiley and some...
Will this ever Finnish?
Nick: It's more or less as you expect from the home town entry - there's an enthusiastic crowd of locals to support a perfectly...
It’s the final countdown …
Puda put daaaa - pudda put put derrr...
As it were.Just rolled out of the last practise, and we can tell you this...
The show itself...
Fighting in the mud-fight!
Nick: I confess to bias and prejudice here. I came here expecting to like Natalia, and I do sort of. I like the intro,...
He is the dancing queen
TFOK, this is the first time I've needed to say this in the 2007 rehearsals season ... What the HELL was that?
DQ seems to...
Standard issue Spanish Euro-fodder
Arrived in time for the final run through, fortified by Twix (two for Eur1.20 from the vending machines on Pasema Station. Bargain, especially if...
Why this Norwegian Eurovision song is thoroughly average
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Nick: Every year seems to have its own overused style, and this year's seems to be intros that could be the...
The Belgians bring the 70s back to Eurovision
Still loving it. It's a pity that Europe only gets to see the final result and not the preparations for this, because it's been...
Scooch at Eurovsion – shit literally happens
A man immediately to my right just broke off from eating cheap Twix for long enough to ask "Can you see credits rolling over...