Eurovision Countdown 2025: Finland is coming
FinlandErika Vikman – Ich Komme
Leave it to Finland to enter the contest with something so aggressively camp it makes Hard Rock Hallelujah seem subtle....
15 February – You will see the jokers soon’ll be the...
There have been winners and there have been winners. From those nice safe ballads, so clucks, women dancing on boxes, people ripping clothes off....
UMK 2025 Results
International Juries and a national televote (25:75) Decided the winner here. The presenters even showed us a pie chart to explain it!!
It didnt need...
They’ve put the puppy down!
Well just when I thought Wednesday was going to be a quiet news day - not a bit of it. YLE Sent through the...
21 October – The dance floor is calling me
We often say that anyone can win the top prize in our favourite TV show. Past performance is no guide to future performance and...
News direct from YLE – UMK is gogogogo!
YLE, up with the lark this morning sending me an email at 0603 BST for fuck's sake, decided to tell me the following info...
9 September – We two travellers came across each other
OK, so we've gone vintage again. But 1991 was an interesting year when lots of songs got decent scores. And of course the EBU's...
22 August – When we reach the beach hand in hand...
Eurovision always loves a good sing-a-long song. Those mumbly arty Swedish types have their place, but nothing can beat a jovial singer with a...
16 August – Demons rising, they’re disguising hearts are beating, secret...
It's opening song time again. And not just any old opening song. Oh no. This was has a special place in Eurovision history. It...
16 July – The man falls in love with the witch
Those Finns have been unlucky over the years. Yes, they've had one win, but very few other finishes in the top 10. How many...