Live Blog – Dress Rehearsal – First semi-final
In the first of a series of Eurovision 2018 Live Blogs this week, Mr Phil will be your host for the dress rehearsal ahead...
It’s all about the hashtag
If you've spent the last few months under a stone, you might not know, but in this #world, you're nobody without a hashtag. And...
Smells like team spirit
There's a whiff of desperation in the air and it's heading our way from San Marino. After having a strop when the latest incarnation...
Georgia name their Eurovision pick
Happy New Year Eurovision fans. And what better way to kick it off with news from Georgia?
How do you fancy a mix of jazz...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown – Part 5 – Austria
Cesar Sampson, Austrian through and through, has got this song, right, and he’s trying to meld two of Austria’s favourite styles of music ......
Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2018 – Russia
This hardly seems like the same woman behind that half-arsed effort that was never really meant to be taken seriously last year. This time...
Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2018 – Georgia
As always, Georgian TV has chosen to follow its own Eurovision path - you say banger, they say open-throat close-harmony vocal group. Sadly, this...
Serbian striding and strutting
Hhm. Serbia’s not great. Musically this has plenty to stand out, but visually they’re making a bit of a fist of it. There’s some...
Cut some moves grandpa
Grandpa Gromee now and pretty boy Lukas Meier for Poland and this is delivering everything I expected but still leaving me a little bit...
Eurovision 2018 Live Blog
Join me tonight at 8pm (UK) for the Grand Final of the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest. It's another one of those 'wide open' years...