Loreen’s not refusing us
I am unashamedly supporting Loreen this year. I thought her 2011 entry into Melodifestivalen, My Heart Is Refusing Me, was the best song to...
Melodifestivalen – Heat 1 results and a new way of showing...
The annual musical decathlon that is the Melodifestivalen kicked off tonight. Along with all of thje usual guff and blister there isn't an audience...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown Part 2 – Armenia
After sitting out a year in 2021 Armenia returns with a song so devoid of any national flavour I had to Google whether the...
Eurovision Countdown 2017 – Part 1
Every few days between now and the Big Show, OnEurope's pundits will delight with musings on the musical merits of the songs competing in...
Mr Phil – What is your plan of in-action for Eurovision?
As you may or may not know, the gods at the BBC have smiled on us again by allowing us, and by extension you...
Matthew, Mark, Luke and Jeangu?! – Those crazy Dutch have gone...
It seems that the Dutch have been reading the good book as their long awaited entry of their home contest, Jeangu Macrooy, has released...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2021 – Part 29 of 39 – Portugal
I’m quite used to being in a minority. I was in the minority of the press centre that heard Il Volo bugger up their...
Romania – Roxen is going to have to perform major surgery...
Those of you that have read this blog often enough over the years know that I rarely hold back on what I think and,...
North Macedonia – Are those hills still alive?
It has taken me this many seconds to work out that Vasil is actually mangling the opening notes from Edelweiss together with something from...
Vidbir 2022 – Eurovision in times of trouble – Alina Pash...
Despite the fact that they are currently resisting Russian troop build-up on their borders, the Ukrainian broadcaster did what broadcasters should always do -...