Monty’s Eurovision Countdown Part 6 – BELARUS
Forever by Alekseev
It’s not a national final season without some controversy, and so often that’s come from either Belarus or Ukraine. This year one...
Latvia: funny girl, scarlet woman
I’m just nonplussed by everything about this one. It’s not a style of music I enjoy, so it’s one that’s kind of passed me...
Saara and her wheel of misfortune
Ooh Lady Saara of Altoo now and, as expected, she’s has a big prop erection onstage consisting of a wheel of fortune at the...
Stones to gather no qualification?
So, after we largely ignored the Swiss selection, they went right ahead of picked a song.
ESC 2018 – Die Entscheidungsshow took place this evening at...
Are we dancers? No, we’re humans … if you’re Romanian
So, after FIVE semi finals in various weird and wonderful locations around Romania - including an actual salt mine - a professional jury and...
Is Bulgaria beyond the bones or beyond the pail?
'This song is going to be a difficult watch for a Tuesday night,' said Ewan from ESCInsight and yer know what? He's absolutely right.
This...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown Part 25 – LITHUANIA
When We’re Old by Ieva Zasimauskaitė
With 50 competitors and about 700 rounds it’s very easy to get lost in the Lithuanian final, although somehow...
The first 2018 proper national final – La France? C’est vous!
I know people will think that Albania is the first proper national final, but as that took place in 2017 this - the French...
Croatian Crazy talk
Mr Phil was away getting a coffee, so he left me in charge, and armed with just thirty selective seconds of footage (and a...
Greek drama
Yianni brings us 'Oniro Mou', looking classy in a pure white floor-length gown with trailing sleeves, which she makes a feature of during the...