Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 41 – United Kingdom
I like to save the best for last. I’m going alphabetically though, so I can’t – it has to be the United Kingdom instead....
Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Iceland
I like that Hatari bring variety to a show that often drifts towards the musical middle ground. Without doubt, their Tel Aviv performance will...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 12 – Estonia
Time to declare an Interest here. I was at this final, I've stood next to the lovely Victor Crone - and he doesn’t half...
Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – UK
It's the first day of the Eurovision month of May and my Countdown comes to an end with the home team. It's Michael 'Bigger...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 31 – Poland
Poland’s most memorable Eurovision moment is 2014’s saucy milkmaids and buxom butter churners, a performance that spawned memes a-plenty but split audience opinion (the...
Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Estonia
This year, the national finals were largely crammed into February. And let's not forget that mad week in March when we were dealt an...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 15 – Georgia
It’s a very difficult thing to write that a song has no chance in this contest, but this is one of those songs.
It’s depressing...
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...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 39 – Sweden
Look, I could sit here and type a lengthy dissertation about how predictable and formulaic Sweden’s Melodifestivalen has become, but to be honest it’s...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 2 – Armenia
Srbuk hopes to get Armenia back on track after an uncharacteristic failure to qualify for the final last year, only the second time Armenia...