Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 38 – Spain
Much as it loathes me to say it, the Spaniards have finally come up with the goods.
For the first time in what seems like...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown – Part 9 of 39 – Czech Republic
As we don’t write these in one group setting, and we can’t anyway with Covid, we don’t know what each of us has written,...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2022 – Part 6 – Belgium
Jérémie Makiese - Miss You
This is the first song in this year’s countdown that is definitely going to benefit from the continued lack of...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2022 – Part 18 – Iceland
Systur - Með Hækkandi Sól
I didn’t think that the Grand Ole Opry had an outpost in Reykjavik, until these three trotted up to...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 27 – Montenegro
If this is a glimpse into Montenegro’s version of heaven, I’m glad I live in a different country and follow a different belief system
This...
Nick’s Eurovision Countdown 2021 – Sweden
SWEDEN - Tusse - Horses
SCENE: A brightly lit and spacious performance area. An engaging man and a charming woman enter the stage to fading applause. Jacques Deschenaux, for it...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2018 – Part 1 – The United Kingdom
I usually start the countdown at the beginning, after all it is a very good place to start, but this year in a cynical...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2021 – Part 25 of 39 – Netherlands,...
There are two main schools of thought when it comes to the Eurovision contest of songs. The first one is that the host nation...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2021 – Part 33 of 39 – Serbia
This song is nearly excellent. It has a banging great beefy introduction which leads into a regulation banger verse which despite being in Serbian...
Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2022 – Part 5 – Azerbaijan
Nadir Rüstəmli - Fade to black
Because you can never have enough of these soaring male ballads at Eurovision - and the last song revealed...