Nick “does” 2025 – Azerbaijan
AZERBAIJAN – Run With U – Mamagama
Azerbaijan have quietly been in Eurovision for 17 years now. I reject this timeline and indeed reality in...
Eurovision Countdown 2025: Belgium is vaguely threatening
BelgiumStrobe Lights – Red Sebastian
Belgium has sent in the fog machine early this year, accompanied by something that approximates a song if you squint...
Nick “does” 2025 – Czechia
CZECHIA – Kiss Kiss Goodbye – Adonxs
I’ll be honest – and it’s not a fantastic start to a review – I’d completely forgotten that...
Eurovision Countdown 2025: Armenia is ‘cobbled together’
Armenia
Parg – Survivor
At the risk of sounding like a colonial-era phonetics professor: if you’re going to sing in English, at least try to sound...
Eurovision Countdown 2025: Norway is familiar
NorwayKyle Alessandro – Lighter
From the land of fjords, fish, and fantastically committed Eurovision entries comes Lighter, Norway’s solidly middle-lane offering courtesy of Kyle Alessandro—a...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown – Part 1/37 – Albania
Zjerm – Shkodra Elektronike
Now depending on your age or your geographic location this is either “a banger” that is going to score a gamillion...
Eurovision CountDown 2025 – Results are in and it’s surprised us!
After several thousand words of guff, 148 sets of votes with no collusion (Cos we are honest here, guv) and several minutes of taking...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 – France
FRANCE – Maman – Louane
This must be the fourth time I have written this review because of my associated illnesses, but I still come...
Eurovision Countdown 2025: Austria is ‘full-throttle’
Austria
JJ – Wasted Love
You can almost hear the pitch meeting: a fragile opening line, a trembling upper register, then bam—crank up the production, cue...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 Part 29/37 – Portugal
Deslocado by NAPA
Now, the attentive among you will have noticed that Part 30 has come before Part 29, that was done for many...