Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 10 – Czech Republic
It’s taken a while, but after a painful journey of awful rock, strained ballads and a cartoonish play on minority ethnicity, the Czech Republic...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 36 – Serbia
Whenever i hear strings at the start of a Balkan song, my heart sinks, because it means another heartfelt ballad about something depressing. For...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown Part 8 – Cyprus
El Diablo by Elena Tsagrinou
Let’s hope Elena Tsagrinou is still around to perform this by May and hasn’t been swallowed into the depths of...
Nick’s Eurovision Countdown 2021 – Italy
ITALY - Maneskin - Zitti i Buoni
Sometime on Saturday Week 3 (or the 22nd May as it's known in more standard calendars), somewhere in...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2022 – Part 3 – Australia
Sheldon Riley - Not the same
This song, for me, poses a question that I never thought I would ever ask in the history of...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2022 – Part 17 – Greece
Amanda Georgiadi Tenfjord - Die Together
My what a happy lot the South Eastern Balkans are! – Pleasingly this song isn’t about a suicide pact...
Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2022 – Part 23 – Lithuania
Monika Liu - Sentimentai
While it's tempting to dismiss this as the Lithuanian shot at recreating the spirit of 'My lovely horse', by the end...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown Part 19 – Ireland
It’s a full 30 years since Ireland began her incredible run of 1990s fortune that saw 4 wins in 5 years and a seemingly...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2023 Part 6 – BELGIUM.
Because of You by Gustaph.
I passed a most agreeable weekend in Brussels this January, all the sweeter after having to cancel my previous two...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2023 Part 30 – San Marino
Like An Animal by Piqued Jacks.
I’m sure there’s a scientific formula that can plot the correlation between Eurovision’s smallest competing nation and the size...