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ONEUROPE: Eurovision Song Contest news

7 September – I’m scared of breathing

Can you always pick a winner? Do you see it make its way through the Eurovision season and think "Yes, that's the one"? Or...

Latvia & Azerbaijan – is it time for a break yet?...

Latvia – I didn’t see much of it as I was having some lunch: big ravioli with cheese and a butetr sauce. Delicious. About...

The rest of the morning’s rehearsals Caught up!

Lithuania. Oh dear. Lithuania does sign language shocker. What on EARTH is that all about? - Walters and Thinggy got to the final, but...

Straight or gay or in between …

With just Russia to reveal its full Eurovision hand, today we were gifted the Azerbaijani 2020 entry. Samira Efendi will perform as 'Efendi' in May. There's...

Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2023 – Part 5/37 – Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan – Tell me More – TuralTuranX The first thing I get from this song is the feeling that the backing track could be the...

Where are we? Oh yes, Baku on a hazy Sunday afternoon

So we're motoring through the back end of semi two now aren't we? Bosnia & Herza-give her a new dress have given me my biggest...

Some good reasons not to make a ‘lyric video’

Lyric videos rose to prominence in the 2010s, even though George Michael and Prince had already toyed with the concept in the 1980s and early 1990s...

13 June – Drum, drum, drum

When an act takes to the Eurovision stage, there will be have been a whole lot of planning to decide costumes, backing singers and...

Azeri’s release their song mid afternoon!

So after teasing us that their knock-off Wagamama group Mamagama were taking their song to the rest of Europe, they decided to let it...

The last couple …

Just had a quick peekey at the Azeri press conf. Both lads themselves had identical tea cosy hats and cool shades on, looking every...