Malta and beyond to lunch…
Malta
That's my boy... Gianluca (did I tell you I met him in London?) charms us, the arena and every camera with that charismatic grin...
Bulgarian mushrooms and Icelandic prayers
We saw the Bulgarians last night in the Euro Fan Cafe giving good drumming and showing their typically cavalier attitude to drum sticks. Here...
The lovely Malta
The lovely Maltese Gianluca is onstage being lovely, and singing his lowly song lovelyly. It's all very lovely. He does a lovely little walk...
Betting advice to ignore…
Ooh now, any of you thinking of putting a few pennies on Eurovision this year could do worse than to put a couple of...
I’ve just had my WOW moment
Krista Siegfrieds is not only coming top 3 in the 2nd semi final, she's coming Top 10 in the Final and *will* give YLE...
Azerbaijan & Finland – wow, but not in that order
I'm not getting Azerbaijan like the rest of the assembled throng appear to be. This was the first time I'd seen it all the...
Oh Farid, yessssss!!
I've just dashed over to the arena and back to catch Azerbaijan and that was a seriously wow moment for me! They've taken the...
It’s Saturgay, I’m freezing my tats off…
Good morning Europe, god moron Malmo! And good morning hangover! Not an all singing, all dancing one with pyros but a gentle one that...
Latvia, San Marino and Macedonia, our first triptych of the day
And we're off! Or Here We Go as they say in Latvian. We just managed to catch the final run through of PeR still...