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...
The Irish are firing on one cylinder
Phil: Whilst I am mindful that this is a rehearsal, I have heard this sung better. Sinéad Mulvey and Black Daisy seem not to...
Eurovision 2009: UK jurors announced
Someone was asking below, and it's now up on the BBC Eurovision pages.
They are:
Deborah Chapman (a "music expert and author", possibly the writer of...
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...
Eurovision 2009: Semi Final 2 Update.
Firstly - we return from the Kremlin in one piece - in the rain, then proceed straight to SF2 ( Do not pass go...
Slow….Venia?
Phil: Slovenia - Well we managed to get into the hall to see a couple of rehearsals of this and, unfortunately, I am still...
And so it begins
Well Phil and I ate well yesterday and then slumped in front of the Russian telly knocking back vodka and indefeasibly strong beer. A...
Latvia – Traffic Jam or Strawberry
Phil: It seems they may have become unstuck with the contest down old Riga way with this. Apparently its a song called 'Traffic Jam'...
Albania – something missing
Phil: No matter how much I like this song - I suspect it's missing that certain something. Some would call it experience, some would...
Now this is more like it – again – Azerbaijan
Julie Wright - she of Euronet/DotEurovision/ESCNation fame - told me weeks ago that this was going to do well, and I dismissed her shenanigans...