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Australia – really rather good for 10 seconds

After the first 10 seconds I went… “Shit”… It all went a bit meh after that to be honest. Guy is clearly a professional…. singer...

Plain Danes … Except the dark guitarist!

Ooh twink Danish boys on now and there’s nothing much to say about this performance wise. How else would you stage a song sung by...

Switzerland…. zzzzzzzz

This song passes me by. Melanie is singing a cracking little song but, like a fair few in this contest, it doesn’t hold the...

Portugal Yesterday then….. **BREAKING NEWS**

Well, it might not be that breaking but it is important. Leonor had to perform again last night after all of the songs and the...

My little San Marino

Imagine, if you will, an ant standing next to an elephant, going “DUUHHH DUHHH DUUUHHHH MILLION VOIIIIICES. DUH DUHHHH DUHHH WON’T BE LOOOOONELY ANYMORE”...

I’m playing catch up

Ooh I’m tardy. We’ve been off doing some international meed-ya, darlings: the Daily Podcast for ESCInsight and then some featurettes for BBC3 with Scott...

Estonia not quite developing as I expected

I probably shouldn’t make confident predictions about stuff based on first rehearsal technical shenanigans. The static silhouettes are staying static, which is fair enough. I...

Hungary – I like Boggie…. everybody should

I like this song. Possibly because I was forced, at gunpoint, to watch A Dal for six weeks for Eurovision Ireland so I have...

San Marino, guilty pleasure

Despite lapsing into ‘Eurovision cliche number 4382: lighting candles’ within the first 40 seconds San Marino is my guilty pleasure this year. They fed...

Iceland – It’s the Minipops (well one of them)

Dear RUV, can you get your styling och consulting people to stop making Maria look like a 10 year old Emillie De Forest on...