Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 Part 17 – Iceland
RÓA by VÆB
Look, I’ve tried to make it sound like the ligature æ in encyclopædia but the Eurovision website tells me the band’s name...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown – Part 24/37 – Moldova
Moldova - Pasha Parfeni - "Soarele și Luna
In Malmo, ten years ago, I, through luck not of my own making, was in the Green...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2023 Part 3 – Australia
Promise by Voyager.
Sometimes you have a national final, pick a winner, and the song that was the runner up feels more popular. Such was...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 39 – Sweden
Look, I could sit here and type a lengthy dissertation about how predictable and formulaic Sweden’s Melodifestivalen has become, but to be honest it’s...
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...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown Part 15 – FRANCE
Mercy by Madame Monsieur
After two good results from internally selected entries it was a surprise to see a return to a national final in...
Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2018 – Serbia
It kicks off like one of those entho-wailers from the middle of the last decade. And then the first verse kicks in and it...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown Part 25 – LITHUANIA
When We’re Old by Ieva Zasimauskaitė
With 50 competitors and about 700 rounds it’s very easy to get lost in the Lithuanian final, although somehow...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2021 – Part 17 of 39 – Iceland
This could adequately be described in six words: “Not as good as last year’s”, and fans would probably understand and go “yup”. But, as...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2021 – Part 16 of 39 – Greece
When I first heard this song, my immediate thought was to pan it like I had with Cyprus several days ago because on first...