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Friday, October 3, 2025
ONEUROPE: Eurovision Song Contest news

A mixed grill of Romania, Greece and Russia

I've just pootled down to the Arena for the afternoon session - no internet to speak of down there, hence my silence for the...

A day of rest and sunshine

Being one to actually want to sample the host city of wherever I am, I left the other three OnEuropers in the press centre...

Press gang

It's less than three hours to the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest and we are in the Press Centre before moving onto the main thingummy...

Semi 2 business

Now then, who were good and who were poor from yesterday's first run through? Well you would expect that Ukraine are a given. The act...

Lovely Belgradia

But you don't want to know about them sonsg now, does one. You want to know what Belgrade is like. Well it's nice actually....

Wednesday morning

Well we didn't actually make it back yesterday afternoon as we were too busy sunbathing on the balcony of our new apartment and drinking...

Tonight’s shindiggery

Now there's a massive party for all planned tonight in the shadow of the massive Kalemegdan fortress, with it says here, Legends and Sensations...

Typed in haste …

... we've whizzed over from the arena back to the press centre and we're even more confused than ever. Latvia's great even though it's...

Morning! – and Poland

Phil: Isis Gee is on the monitors at the moment (they have fixed the sound in the press centre and it is perfect!!) -...

It says 18 F.Y.R. Macedonia on the bottom of the screen...

Nick: So it must be time for song 18. It's a rather baffling staging here, with people suddenly turning up through a temporary door...