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Sunday, October 5, 2025
ONEUROPE: Eurovision Song Contest news

Flags, flags, flags

Phil: Now then, Moldova ... It's heavily choreographed - as you would expect with a dramatic song such as this. They look to have...

Switzerland – Oh dear lordi

People who watch this thing that is happening a week today (shit!) will point at this and say: "Haven't Lordi opened the show?" or...

Georgia no longer breaking the stage

Nick: No news here, really, compared with the first rehearsal... they've obviously got the knack of not breaking the stage, it's going down well...

Icelandic rock

Nick: Back in 1977, when I was still young, Rick Wakeman made a concept album on the Legend of King Arthur. It was big...

Belarus get sticky at Eurovision

Cyprus having found the wallpaper, Belarus have in turn found the Solvite. Only a Brit of a certain age is going to catch that...

Evridiki channels Saint Carola of Stockholm

Nick: Looks like the real wallpaper's arrived... the Commodore 64 look has gone, to be replaced by a particularly attractive animated doiley and some...

The sideways strut lives on

To me, it's more obviously out of the Alf Poier school than it was on Thursday, now that I've got used to it a...

Any other business?

So anyway, nice place, this Helsinki. The sun has actually come out and we get to see what the city looks like outside of...

Bulgaria bang the drum for Eurovision

Nick: Right, we're back again... and so are the Barnsley delegation. "What are you on about now, fool?" you're thinking, but trust me, I...

Slovenia – write your own review

It's a woman singing a song with loud high notes in it. Therefore, you can pretty much write the rest of my review for...