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Phil’s Eurovision Countdown – Part 32 – Norway

I can’t even get through this song without punching something – and that really is a problem when you have tickets to sit in...

Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Belgium

Eliot from Belgium is performing a song written by the guy behind 2017's 'City Lights' - and there is a certain similarity in tone....

Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Germany

This hotchpotch box of awfulness deserves to be sent back to Germany unopened. From the dreadful lyric (I tried to hold you under, but honey,...

Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Sweden

I get the impression SVT has been treading water. They've wanted to stay in the top ten, but it felt too soon for a...

Monty’s Eurovision Countdown Part 12 – Finland

Dark Side by Blind Channel It’s only really Finland that’s made a success of rock at the Contest (and even then it took a band...

Monty’s Eurovision Countdown Part 21 – Latvia

The Moon Is Rising by Samanta Tina You have to feel for Samanta Tina. Having tried 5 times to represent Latvia, and another twice for...

Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2022 – Part 10 – Czech Republic

We Are Domi – Lights Off This has all the hallmarks of a perfectly competent studio track that just won't work on the HUGE Eurovision...

Monty’s Eurovision Countdown Part 12 – Estonia

The great American wild west permeated this year’s national final season in several songs, including hopeful entries in Malta and Sweden. I’m not sure...

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,...

Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2023 Part 17 – Iceland

Power by Diljá. As we gather each new crop of Eurovision songs each year a set emerge that you’re delighted have made the cut. Equally...