Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2021 – Part 37 of 39 – Switzerland
There are times when you can describe the Eurovision Song Contest as car crash television but never has there been a song with an...
My home land – Estonia – no UK – Finally no...
Now, I've been doing this since about the end of the Crimean Wars, and I know what rubbish UK Rehearsals sound like. There's a...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2021 – Part 25 of 39 – Netherlands,...
There are two main schools of thought when it comes to the Eurovision contest of songs. The first one is that the host nation...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2021 -Part 10 of 39 -Denmark
Checking my calendar it says 2021 and whilst the 80’s are brilliant, when you marry that with a couple of grinning goons clearly trying...
Norway brings angelic bling
The sequencing of Cyprus’ Diablo into Norway’s Fallen Angel is smart thinking. But after that made-for-Eurovision performance can Tix still stand out?
In my Countdown...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown Part 20 – Italy
Zitti E Buoni by Måneskin
Måneskin turned this year’s Sanremo on its head. It’s not unusual for a competing song to gain momentum across the...
Finland in being Finland shocker
I’ve often said that if there is one thing that we know for certain, it’s that Finland is always true to themselves. Blind Channel...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown Part 2 – Australia
Technicolour by Montaigne
Montaigne is my Countdown’s first of many returning artists whose 2020 Eurovision dreams were brought to a juddering halt by Coronavirus. As...
Serviette of Doom: Eurovision 2021 – Semi-final 1
As is tradition, the good folk of OnEurope gather (virtually) and scribble predictions on what has become known as the 'Serviette of Doom'. Tomorrow,...
Iceland – Is it’s intended audience too small?
In the same way that Denmark feels as though it's just one big in-joke. Iceland feels exactly the same to me. However, whereas the...