Sweden – Frozen in Eurovision history
Phil: She does have a very very scary face and has been Botox-ed to hell in the time between the Melodifestival and now, but...
Irish enter an actual Turkey for Eurovision
Phil: It is what it is ... and that's not necessarily a bad thing, I guess ... He does everything that you would expect...
San Marino – meat that I couldn’t positively identify
Well I've just been for a stroll to find the local Mini Maxi as the canteen in the press centre is slightly on the...
The Albanian Reaction
I've just been reading in the BBC World Serbian section about how they hope that Eurovision will help the rest of Europe see it...
And La France
Franko: Here we go again. Another song I actually like that's given an unremarkable presentation and likely to finish in the bottom five. There's...
Sweden top 5 or my name is Regina Osk
Franko: It pains me to say this but Charlotte Perelli is not only going to qualify but guaranteed top 5. If Iceland were note...
Turkey – guitars and drums and stuff
Well, this is interesting. It turns out that when you're in a right royal Iceland-induced eurostrop, this looks and sounds absolutely ace. I mean,...
Raw Finland
Phil: Well ... I don't know how I let this one pass me by quite frankly ... It's not a Lordi clone, because...
There’s an air of calm in the press centre
On screen we've had a still image of a sleeping technician for the last 20 minutes; we missed France in favour of getting some...
Eurovision 2008 – First semi-final results
The first semi-final was held on 20 May 2008.
Germany and Spain voted in this semi-final.
Draw
Country
Language
Artist
Song
Place
Points
01
Montenegro
Montenegrin
Stefan Filipović
"Zauvijek volim te"
14
23
02
Israel
Hebrew, English
Boaz Ma'uda
"The Fire in...