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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...