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We’ve arrived and we are hanging!

The BA702 was uneventful though three beverage-ettes managed to slip down our necks and by the end of the flight all the crew and...

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...

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...

Portugal – Hmmmm NO!

Leonora got so bored with this song, she gave up at the end and quite honestly that’s what Europe is going to do as...

Eurovision 2015 – Second semi final results

17 countries took part in this semi-final. Australia, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom voted in this semi-final. Ten songs qualified for the final. Draw Country Language Artist Song Place Points 01  Lithuania English Monika Linkytė &...

Backing dancer pap and Iceland

I innocently popped to the canteen for a sausage and pickle bap and saw the Israeli backing dancers having lunch. So I innocently popped...

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...

Today at the Games – Tuesday Week 1

Today we saw all sorts of gems from all across Europe so, in brief – the OnEurope memorial forks ( In association with Princess...

Bojana’s backing dancers mock Trijntje Oosterhuis

I remember back in the noughts, I’d routinely say “Oh, cheer up Serbia! Show us a happy!”, and they’d send us another Balkan ballad...

Guess what I have with Poland?

A problem, that’s right. The staging lifts it to the point where it now doesn’t make me want to slaughter kittens, Monica is a...