Iceland and Albania
Iceland
Normally it goes the other way for me when a song is changed from original language to English but in the case of Iceland...
Aside from the songs
Belgium's up next and I hate it. I'm therefore going to take the opportunity to blog a little about the environs. We really are...
Riigi goes to Kodaň – Friday morning
I had a cunning little day off on Thursday. I saw some of the town and it's darn nice in the warm and...
Ukraine’s wheel of misfortune
You've all heard about the Ukrainian hamster wheel by now. I was very intrigued to see this. The start shows how vast the stage...
Azerbaijan, striking a match
Azerbaijan is up now. I didn't rate this in first hearing but had to quickly reassess as I realised just how good the song...
Estonia, Sweden, loo news and other bits
Estonia
I've been quite indifferent to this all along forgetting about it but then quite liking it on listening. On watching the rehearsal now I'm...
Russia’s not actually that bad…
We stayed in the hall for this. I'd read the early reports from the first rehearsal and I wasn't expecting very much but it's...
Albanian angst
We popped into the hall to see Albania. There's a beautiful quality to Hersi Bar's voice live, and I have to admit to being...
And the 5 I missed… oops
Well the coverage from Copenhagen hasn't been even so I was bound to miss a few. Here's a piece of hard crusty Danish bread...
Icelandic bears
I like a man with a beard, and Iceland serves us up a whole stage full of them. Visually this is a riot of...