Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Czech Republic
I shouldn't like this, but I do. It's ever-so-slightly smug, the whole mockney vibe gets old fast and if they keep the spoken voice-over,...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 9 – Cyprus
Somewhere in a television studio in Nicosia, at the back end of 2018, arose a shadowy figure who fired up the projector, showed the...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 6 – Belarus
At 16, ZENA is the youngest competitor this year. Given she’s tried twice previously to enter Junior Eurovision for her country, we can probably...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 5 – Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan had an unblemished qualification record right up until last year, when Aisel fell short with the annoyingly titled X My Heart. To be...
Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Cyprus
Last year, CyBC entered a run-of-the-mill song that I'd heard a hundred times before. It nearly won the contest. And much of the credit...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 8 – Croatia
I hated Jacques Houdek’s ridiculous song in two-thousand-and-thankfully-forgotten. It was bizarre beyond belief that a broadcaster thought that this was a decent shout and...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 4 – Austria
Halfway through the voting in Lisbon it looked like we might be heading back to Vienna, as Cesar Sampson unexpectedly won the jury vote....
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 3 – Australia
Now in their fifth year of entry, Australia has an unblemished qualification record - although Jessica Mauboy fell far short of expectation last year...
Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Croatia
The first lines suggested promise, but things went quickly downhill. And as for those wings - there is one word that fits - No.
And...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 2 – Armenia
Srbuk hopes to get Armenia back on track after an uncharacteristic failure to qualify for the final last year, only the second time Armenia...