Eurovision, unplugged, unpolished, unapologetic
3.9 C
Vienna
Saturday, October 4, 2025
ONEUROPE: Eurovision Song Contest news

28 August – People meet, floating on a cloud

The 1980s. What a fine, fine decade it was. Full of big clothes, big hair and the occasional big song. It was the calm...

27 August – Changing like the weather

Do you know how it feels to be a bit early for something? It could be getting there early for that hot date. Or...

10 July – Together we could be the biggest choir

If there's one country that you can rely on, it's our friends in Denmark. Yes, they took a few years out in the 1960s...
Lithuania

EBU dismisses further Eurovision vote irregularities

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has been forced to make a second apology following voting irregularities at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest. After mistakes with...
Leonora at Eurovision 2019

Denmark – High flying adored

Leonora was dressed pretty much as she always has in shirt and braces. There had been camera issues in the first rehearsal, so everyone was...

Denmark – Has she got the motion?

Click + above to see what is lacking in this performance: a Simon Snorkel lift to get Thumbelina Leonora into her chair. She actually...
Leonora

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...
Leonora

Phil’s Eurovision Countdown – Part 11 – Denmark

Leonora, replete with her big chair, is the Danish entrant and we have the first of this year’s “less is more” songs.  She manages...

Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Denmark

Blink, woman, blink. If Leonora's Tel Aviv performance echoes the one she turned in at the Danish national final, she'll stand out for all the...

15 March – In the softest sand, smiling hand in hand

I've given you a couple pf days of songs that didn't quite make the grade in their respective contests. I'm changing that today with...