Three Georgian minutes to never get back
Georgia is probably the strangest three minutes you'll hear this Eurovision. We have a saying that once you've heard a Eurovision song three times...
Up and at ’em for the Big 5
I'm not liking this early start. Up before 8.30 this morning to get to the arena early for the first rehearsals of the Big...
The paper towel of per-il…
...is too 'ard for me this time. They do say there be 10 qualifiers in this semi of shame, and I'm not feeling it....
Mr Phil explains Eurovision 2014- 17th – The UK
As I am a UK journo, I think I need to write a couple of hundred words on the UK of Stuff - I'd...
Iceland….. now then… Qualifying?
This is going to get the bonkers vote!! - They are in their colours as per the video and are in character at all...
Macedonia (FYR) – Busy…..
This song lends itself to a busy staging and that's what it gets, lots of lights and choreography and the floor changing and doing...
Moldova is merciless
Cristina Scarlett is singing that she has no feelings of mercy. She's dressed half in chiffon and half in a bronze breastplate. Imagine Katerina...
Ireland…. struggling
There *are* positives here. It is getting better, of that there is no doubt, Kasey has been "instructed" to stop fiddling with her hair,...
A final round up from today’s rehearsals
Oh it's all so busy here! I've missed a bit as I took some time out to record a podcast for ESC Insight earlier...
San Marino – More cheese please
Imagine if you will a quatro formaggio pizza, then add lots more cheese - and by lots, I mean "shitloads" - and this is...