Live blog – Eurovision 2008 – First semi-final – public rehearsal
Oh my god where to begin with this lot!
I think I have to divide it up between Doomed, Qualifying and "s'ok"
Doomed
Montenegro: Nothing but a...
It gets dark early in Finland
Phil: I understand now why this won the national final. It's archetypal Finnish ... dark and mysterious. We keep expecting it to build to...
Is it no go for Montenegro at Eurovision?
Whoever gets to sing for Serbia in Rotterdam might have to count on twelve fewer points. This week, state broadcaster RTCG appeared to confirm...
Missing the boat
Phil: I reckon that Ark have missed lots and lots of things out of their song, mostly a spark of something good. In the...
Slovenia – Experiment IV
We're all making assumptions about the juries this year. We're assuming that they'll be directed to vote highly for songs that could be an...
Austria rises and rises
We popped into the arena to see Conchita, her vocal needed to be heard live. She's in a glorious golden gown that required a...
Azerbaijan….. Hungry like the Wolf
Elnur is channeling Ingmar Bergman with this performance and, as Ewan from ESC Insight has just explained to me, it’s very very symbolic staging...
A run of bad luck
I must point out at this point, that this is observations from the ESCDaily Video and may well be altered by the time I...
I’m not dead (yet)
Hello dear OnEurope reader.
I understand people have been enquiring about my whereabouts. Terribly sorry for my lack of correspondence, but a mixture of work,...
Swiss army drafted in to help with Eurovision 2025
As Basel prepares to host the Eurovision Song Contest 2025, the city is implementing unprecedented security measures. Simultaneously, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has...