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Chingiz

Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 5 – Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan had an unblemished qualification record right up until last year, when Aisel fell short with the annoyingly titled X My Heart. To be...

Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Greece

Two reviews in one day? I realised that if we carry on at the one-a-day pace, we'll not finish until the semi-finals have aired. Each...
Carousel

Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 23 – Latvia

Folk me, Latvia has had a folking dreadful run of songs for most of the past decade. Only Aminata has managed to save them...
Victor and Stig

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...

Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Bonus Part – Ukraine

What? Well, you didn’t think I was going to let something this juicy go unreviewed, did you? As we embarked on this year’s national final...
Esther Peony

Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 33 – Romania

Romania’s song is called 'On A Sunday'. Its singer, Ester Peony, croons that you “made sure there’s no way to forget that day”. She’s...
Chingiz

Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 5 – Azerbaijan

Chingiz’s sexuality is the exact embodiment of what this song is. It wants to be everything; both Middle Eastern and disco stomper, and yet...
Cyprus

Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 9 – Cyprus

Somewhere in a television studio in Nicosia, at the back end of 2018, arose a shadowy figure who fired up the projector, showed the...
Kate Miller-Heideke

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...

Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Serbia

'Kruna' brings nothing new to the 2019 Eurovision table. It's a production-line slice of Balkan pop. I'm not especially keen on former Barbara Dex Award-winner...