Italy – Taking flight
Nick: Italy in a bucket.
“Can we have ‘Rome’ please, in blues and golds?”
“What do you mean, ‘Rome’?”
“Oh, you know. Rome! Google Image it, you’ll...
Denmark… It’s all about you, though
I’ve just looked at the screen – Pointed and went ” It’s Danny Alexander” – Cue guffaws all round
So when your man is not...
Montenegro and Malta – together at last
Montenegro really remains professional, standard issue Zeljko fare. Vocally fine, staging almost fine… there is one little moment where they take an overhead shot...
Irish Wood Nymph
Molly from Ireland has wheeled her piano and her band into some wooded glade. It’s quite enchanting. I’m trying to think of the last...
Iceland – Unfrozen
I’ve been sitting here thinking, great set, gorgeous set. Mountains. A rocky floor with glimpses of lava through the cracks below. Northern lights floating...
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...
Russia…. This, Children, is dangerous
It’s performed to within an inch of it’s life.. It’s cleansed of all emotion apart from the story that Russian TV want it to...
18C and rising …
… up to a gorgeous sunny 22 degrees today in Wienstadt, Osterreich..
And we are ensconced here in the press center for your reading pleasure...
Montenegro – When you distill essence of Balkan …
… You get Eau de Joksimovic. This has “Balkan” written all the way through it and despite Knez not looking unlike the ex MP...
Sweden – really more a technical rehearsal than anything else
I suspect there’s not going to be too much useful to say here. Måns and his tiny chums are more or less replicating what...