It’s showtime: Eurovision 2025 Kicks off tonight in Basel
The moment has arrived—the 69th Eurovision Song Contest launches tonight, Tuesday, 13 May 2025, with the First Semi-Final live from St. Jakobshalle in Basel,...
LIVE BLOG of The Grand Final Jury show from 2100 CET
So this will be the first time some of us will have seen the show and the dodgy connection to the online press centre...
Eurovision Countdown 2025: Slovenia is a sigh
Slovenia
Klemen - How much time do we have left?
Well, the backstory lands hard. Klemen opens his promo video by revealing he wrote How Much...
Eurovision Countdown 2025: UK just happens
United Kingdom
Remember Monday - What the hell just happened?
Oh, BBC. What the hell did just happen?
You had Remember Monday—three women who can sing the...
Eurovision Countdown 2025: Portugal is warm
Portugal—so often the earnest, acoustic soul of the contest—has delivered something this year that feels neither desperate nor overwrought, which in Eurovision terms is...
Slovenia’s Klemen Gets a Do-Over
After a wobbly first rehearsal that left Slovenia’s Klemen stuck on stage waiting for the tech to catch up, things clicked into place today—and...
Nick “does” 2025 – Malta
MALTA – Serving – Miriana Conte
Let me take you back in time, dear reader, to the heady days of the early 1980s. Lady Di...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 Part 12 – Finland
Ich Komme by Erika Vikman
I’ve seldom been as thankful for being one of the organisers and presenters of Second Cherry – a second...
Eurovision Countdown 2025: France is very French
FranceLouane – Maman
France arrives this year draped in melancholy and bathed in sepia, with Louane delivering what is arguably the contest’s rarest creature: an...
Georgia have woken up!
After the Twitter machine deciding to send several messages saying "u ok hun?" to the caucuses region over the last few weeks, it seems...