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Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Montenegro

If you do nothing else with the next 24 hours, watch this video. There's much grabbing of air and forced grinning. None of the...

Monty’s Eurovision Countdown Part 34 – Serbia

Look, none of us had the autonomic nervous system, pretty spleens and pondering about Megan Markle’s hair-care routine on our Eurovision 2022 bingo cards,...
Cesar Sampson

Phil’s Eurovision Countdown – Part 5 – Austria

Cesar Sampson, Austrian through and through, has got this song, right, and he’s trying to meld two of Austria’s favourite styles of music ......

Nick’s Eurovision Countdown 2021 – Switzerland

SWITZERLAND - Gjon's Tears - Tout L'Univers One of my earliest, and still favourite, contests is the 1986 running. Right from Terry Wogan's opening comments,...

Mo’s 2021 Eurovision preview party: Part Four

Time for the last slice of semi-final flan, before tempting your taste buds with the Big Five (and host nation) cheeseboard. With seven casualties promised,...

Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Russia

For some years, Russia was one of my favourite Eurovision countries. They brought something different to the party and could rarely be accused of...

Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Belarus

'Like it' is a perfectly inoffensive slice of minipop from Belarus. Zena can't help being sixteen, but everything about this song and the national...

Eurovision Countdown 24 – Switzerland according to Mo

This and the Irish song have a lot in common. They’ve both chucked a bunch of nonsense around what is basically a conventional and...

Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 Part 19/37 – Israel

New Day Will Rise by Yuval Raphael Right - let’s address the elephant in the room. This song is here, it’s eligible, Kan have...

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...