26 March – You know there is a heart waiting for...
Did you enjoy the Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv. In 2019. You were wearing your blue jumper. It was the one that never...
24 March – When I was sobbing, you were laughing like...
Last year we had a large crop of performers who were lined up for a certain event in 2020, only for it to not...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown Part 1 – Albania
First up in my 2022 Countdown is Albania, with a banger that pleases on every aspect. It’s brimming with Balkan sounds and rhythms and...
Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2022 – Part 1 – Albania
Sekret – Ronela Hakati
After a big dramatic start and a bit of ethnic pipe playing, this settles into its groove - and it's one...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2022 – Part 1 – Albania
Sekret – Ronela Hakati
As a wise old sage says to me on a regular basis, you don’t need to watch the Eurovision to know...
The Sekret is out – Ronela Hajati updates Albanian Eurovision...
Albanian RTSH is always one of the first to stage its national final, with Festivali i Këngës taking place just before Christmas each year.
It...
9 February – Celebrate the dance within
It can be a strange thing being a country's second ever participant in our favourite TV show. Especially if the first entrant did well....
Ronela goes to Turin for Albania.
o, after a final that took three days which included a pointless "getting rid of three newcomers because we can" on night one and...
13 September – The clock runs crazy, it has no hands
Do you prefer a song in a language you can't understand? If you can speak English you're always in luck with the songs taking...
19 August – A gleam of light
Don't you just love our favourite TV show for its masses of different styles? You can have good old Scandi-Schlager, followed by good old...