Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 12 – Estonia
There’s an in-joke within many Eurovision fans that you could pluck a good number of Melodifestivalen rejects and they’d still beat lots of the...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 11 – Denmark
Leonora, the Danish singer, and I have some things in common. We share a birthday (albeit 28 years apart) and a polyglot bent. What...
Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Greece
Two reviews in one day? I realised that if we carry on at the one-a-day pace, we'll not finish until the semi-finals have aired.
Each...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 16 – Germany
You’d have thought Germany would have learned something from their somewhat “accidental” fourth place last year with a song that I thought was a...
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,...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 10 – Czech Republic
It’s taken a while, but after a painful journey of awful rock, strained ballads and a cartoonish play on minority ethnicity, the Czech Republic...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 9 – CYPRUS
After notching up their best ever result at Eurovision last year, Cyprus has a hard act to follow. Whilst few thought 'Fuego' would set...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 15 – Georgia
It’s a very difficult thing to write that a song has no chance in this contest, but this is one of those songs.
It’s depressing...
Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Georgia
There was a bit of the anguished lounge singer going on in Oto's performance at the 'Idol' final. (And someone needs to have a...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 8 – Croatia
Croatia is a strong contender in 2019’s Fire/Desire Cup, rhyming "having a dream, as beautiful as it is extreme" and "not as crazy as...