Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 16 – Germany
One of the trends of recent years has been to set up bootcamps for budding Eurovision songwriters, bringing together promising composers to pool their...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 3 – Australia
This song is the aural version of a trojan horse. It has all the cover and trappings of a decent song in the first...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 14 – France
Every year I lament the fate of the French, who I feel have had some great entries that haven’t got the results they deserve....
Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Latvia
When did the Latvians lose their Eurovision way? Back in their upstart days, we had rocky little numbers from Brainstorm. As recently as 2015,...
Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Slovenia
When I saw Zala and Gašper perform this at the EMA, I really didn't like it. They were so intense, so young and looked...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 30 – Norway
So, this is fun! I might gleefully embrace change at this Contest, and throw myself headlong at a contemporary entry, but Eurovision introduced me...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 28 – Netherlands
For a country with four Eurovision wins, the wait since 1975 for the next has been a long one. So long they lost their...
Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Georgia
There was a bit of the anguished lounge singer going on in Oto's performance at the 'Idol' final. (And someone needs to have a...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 4 – Austria
Halfway through the voting in Lisbon it looked like we might be heading back to Vienna, as Cesar Sampson unexpectedly won the jury vote....
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 9 – CYPRUS
After notching up their best ever result at Eurovision last year, Cyprus has a hard act to follow. Whilst few thought 'Fuego' would set...