Monty’s Eurovision Countdown Part 5 – Belgium
The Wrong Place by Hooverphonic
Hooverphonic’s participation in 2020 caused quite a stir, as one of the best-known acts outside the Contest. They’re mostly back...
Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2018 – Croatia
Putting aside recent controversy about how much of this song was cut and pasted from a backing track that the creator seems to have also...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown Part 18 – Ireland
Maps by Lesley Roy
Despite only using the term maps as a metaphor for inner soul searching, Lesley Roy’s been packed off to a windy...
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...
Mo’s Eurovision 2023 Countdown: Greece
ERT has stepped up its game in recent Eurovision years. Rather than send yet another cheap banger, there's been a genuine effort to invest...
Nick “does” 2025 – Netherlands (The)
NETHERLANDS (The) – C’est La Vie – Claude
When I was about 12, I wrote a short essay/poem about a rollercoaster for English class at...
Eurovision Countdown 2025: Finland is coming
FinlandErika Vikman – Ich Komme
Leave it to Finland to enter the contest with something so aggressively camp it makes Hard Rock Hallelujah seem subtle....
Eurovision Countdown 24 – Denmark according to Mo
This is one of those rare cases of the singer being way too good for the song.
Saba oozes charisma, and her vocals soar, yet...
Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2018 – Spain
Male/female duos don't tend to win Eurovision - although I give you Ell and Nikki - whose victory still has many stumped.
It's hard to...
Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2018 – Hungary
I've put off this review until late in my Countdown run, mostly on account, I find it unlistenable. Not their fault. Just not my...