Nick “does” 2025 – Azerbaijan
AZERBAIJAN – Run With U – Mamagama
Azerbaijan have quietly been in Eurovision for 17 years now. I reject this timeline and indeed reality in...
9 April – In London it always rains, but today it...
If you could put money on the next country of the Big Five to win, who would you pick? Italy was the last of...
Nick “does” 2025 – Austria
AUSTRIA – Wasted Love - JJ
Dearest reader, it has been brought to my attention that my marks appear a little, shall we say, eccentric...
Eurovision Countdown 2025: Austria is ‘full-throttle’
Austria
JJ – Wasted Love
You can almost hear the pitch meeting: a fragile opening line, a trembling upper register, then bam—crank up the production, cue...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 – Part 3/37 – Australia
AUSTRALIA – Milkshake Man – Go-Jo
I wish to open this with a spoiler. This might be the shortest and possibly most sweary thing you’ll...
Nick “does” 2025 – Australia
AUSTRALIA – Milkshake Man – Go-Jo
We have a phrase in English – “not a euphemism” – which roughly equates to the French “double entendre”...
Eurovision Countdown 2025: Australia is ‘saucy’
Australia
Go-Jo – Milkshake Man
Australia’s long-standing tradition of sending technically competent, highly polished pop entries appears to have taken the year off in favour of…...
Phil’s Eurovision countdown – Part 2/37 – Armenia
Survivor - Parg
Ahhh yes, the first in a growing number of songs that “the fans” on Twitter/X have decided to dislike for whatever-the-reason-is-at-this-minute.
I’ve got...
Nick “does” 2025 – Armenia
Survivor - Parg
I mentioned yesterday that I often find Albanian entries to be hard work and have been pleasantly surprised this year. Armenian ones...
Eurovision Countdown 2025: Armenia is ‘cobbled together’
Armenia
Parg – Survivor
At the risk of sounding like a colonial-era phonetics professor: if you’re going to sing in English, at least try to sound...