Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2018 – Switzerland
This one starts dark and dramatic, but soon descends into what sounds like yet another Swiss non-qualifier.
I've heard this sort of thing so often...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown Part 4 – AUSTRIA
Nobody But You by Cesár Sampson
Such is the recent success of Bulgaria at Eurovision that the team behind this has been drafted into other...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown Part 15 – FRANCE
Mercy by Madame Monsieur
After two good results from internally selected entries it was a surprise to see a return to a national final in...
20 times Eurovision has kept it in the family
I’ve heard it said – or rather I used to hear it being said – that the Irish have Eurovision ‘in their blood’ –...
Azerbaijan – iceberg ahead!
And we’re off! Azerbaijan is the first song we see in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. Aisel is in white, legging it around the...
Macedonia – we get there in the end … Sorta …...
It’s Day 2 in the Big Brother House. Oh, no, different pressure chamber, it’s the Eurovision Press Centre. I’m recovering from a hike up...
Serbia – what a load of old Balkans …
If you are talking generic and if you are talking about songs that clearly know their audience, then Serbia should be right at the...
Eurovision 2002 – Review
Now then. Just to make you all jealous, I finally got my ticket for £50 and got a “restricted view” seat. Now I do...
It’s loud and I like it
The Hungarian boys from AWS now and this will wake anyone up who perhaps nodded off during the commercial break that precedes them. They...
Sweden First Rehearsal
Its Sweden by numbers.... it is formulaic and terribly well presented... and well that's about it... A workmanlike performance fro the swedes and will...