Phil’s Eurovision Countdown – Part 6/37 – Belgium
In stark contrast to Azerbaijan which I reviewed yesterday, this is much more like it!
Mustii was announced months before the contest and we were...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown – Part 4/37 – Austria
“I am a child, a child of the eighties” – no no, Marie Myriam did not sing that in 1977, but ever since I...
Eurovision Countdown 24 – Italy according to Mo
The Sanremo process invariably means Italy avoids sending the kind of half-arsed stinkers beloved of other Big Five members. I either love or hate...
Eurovision Countdown 24 – Austria according to Mo
There is a Nordic semi-final feel to ‘We Will Rave’, one that has Eurovision stamped throughout its otherwise inoffensive heart.
Kaleen presents a powerful mix...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown – Part 24/37 – Malta
Malta seem to have gone down a rabbit hole of entering poor song after poor song in recent years – albeit with the odd...
Eurovision Countdown 24 – Iceland according to Mo
RUV has ended its hokey-cokey mutterings and thrown everything in with Hera and what might be kindly described as an old-school banger.
An entry made...
Eurovision Countdown 24 – Georgia according to Mo
One thing feels certain (to me). Georgia will return to the final after a few mumbling-beardy-man years away.
Nutsa has turned in a gloriously shouty...
Eurovision Countdown 24 – United Kingdom according to Mo
After one year of ‘getting it’, the BBC has returned to entering songs that offend nobody.
Songs that sound great and fit in just fine...
Eurovision Countdown 24 – Azerbaijan according to Mo
After the all-time low of Cleopatra, there’s been a sense that Azerbaijan is determined to get by without buying in something from Sweden. Last...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown – Part 28/37 – Poland
This is potentially the song that most of the fans will have been sleeping on.
At first glance what you have in the first verse...