Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2023 – Part 28/37 – Portugal
What? - Mimicat you say? - Sorry the hearing is going at my age!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC85TcvRJew
In Portuguese, the word " Saudade" is one of those words...
Eurovision Countdown 24 – Norway according to Mo
Imagine, if you will, one of those dark and brooding scandi-noir detective dramas turned into a three-minute rock song. And you have ‘Ulveham’.
It’s dramatic,...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown – Part 18/37 – Ireland
It’s at this point that I fire up the Vested Interests claxon. I have interviewed Bambi on the radio *and* know someone who has...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 Part 1 – Albania
Zjerm by Shkodra Elektronike
Albania, always first out of the blocks alphabetically for my Countdown and usually first chronologically too, with the magnificent Festivali I...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 – Iceland
ICELAND – Roa – Vaeb
The first time that I saw this I am reminded of this UK advert:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcsXtiN8-UY&pp=ygUUQWxpZSBpbnZhc2lvbiBraXRrYXQ%3D
Seemingly can’t sing, Look hideous and yet,...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 Part 33 – Spain
Esa Diva by Melody
I’ve never been the most patriotic Eurovision fan, not even for my own country: it’s far more important to me...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown – Estonia
Verona by Koit Toome & Laura
“Sleeping all alone, you wake up with a butt on your hands” sings Laura in the song’s opening line....
Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2018 – Moldova
DoReDos seem to have been sent to the contest under strict orders to do what Sunstroke Project (inexplicably) did last year. Spoiler alert: they...
Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2018 – Iceland
What happened to Iceland? They always seemed to get Eurovision, but then things went wrong. So often they missed out on a place at...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown Part 24 – LATVIA
Funny Girl by Laura Rizotto
We’re more than halfway through this year’s Countdown now. Are you still keeping up? With so many competing entries it’s...