Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2022 – Part 28 – North Macedonia
North Macedonia – Andrea – Circles
At this point, let's gloss over the North Macedonian national final and the fact that the juries gave this...
Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2022 – Part 33 – San Marino
Achille Lauro – Stripper
Most years, Eurovision features songs 'influenced' by the previous winning entry. Doesn't seem to matter that rarely have soundalikes won successive...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown Part 39 – Ukraine
Even as Ukraine’s national selection Vidbir was taking place Russian troops were assembling along its borders. It seemed entirely fitting that the winning song,...
Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2022 – Part 18 – Iceland
Systur - Með Hækkandi Sól
This is the sound I suspect Estonian STEFAN was going for, but done properly.
There's a real 'Calm after the...
Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2022 – Part 25 – Moldova
Zdob şi Zdub & Fraţii Advahov - Trenuleţul
In years to come, the 'Trenuleţul' video will be played in Dignitas waiting rooms to help customers...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown Part 20 – Israel
I don’t know about you but by now I’m itching for a big gay hands in the air poppers o’clock stomper. And here he...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown Part 3 – Australia
Australia, alphabetically, serves up the first of what will emerge as a theme in 2022: the introspective sadboi. I hadn’t seen the copycat style...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2022 – Part 40 – United Kingdom
Space Man – Sam Ryder
And so, as tradition dictates, we get to my home entry ... and by tradition I clearly mean the alphabet....
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown Part 29 – Norway
Why, grandma. What big… bananas you have! Little Red Riding Hood is given a surrealist intergalactic make over with hungry yellow space wolves in...
Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2022 – Part 12 – Estonia
STEFAN - Hope
Rarely have I heard a song start with such promise. A brooding spaghetti western backing track, a moody mumbled verse and then...