Phil’s Eurovision Countdown – Part 1/37 – Albania
Zjerm – Shkodra Elektronike
Now depending on your age or your geographic location this is either “a banger” that is going to score a gamillion...
Nick “does” 2025 – Albania
Zjerm – Shkodra Elektronike
Now, I have to start with a little confession. Traditionally I find it hard going to start these countdowns, because working...
Eurovision Countdown 2025: Albania is ‘anguished’
Albania
Shkodra Elektronike – Zjerm
In theory, Zjerm has everything you'd expect from a classic Albanian Eurovision entry: anguished vocal lines, regional instrumentation, and a sense...
4 April – You can try to put me in a...
Do you have a favourite stage prop of all time? Is it a staircase used by the UK in 2009? The collection of pictures...
3 April – Baby, you’re the only one (One, one, one,...
Things got a little odd at the turn of the century. We were trapped in Nordic/Baltic Europe after time in the eastern Med. Countries...
2 April – May all the world’s candles burn for us
Over the years, some countries have been gunning for a win, only for that time to pass without success. They then slip back into...
31 March – Stop sending flowers
Did you enjoy the contest in Turin/Torino? Did you go? Did the city meet your high expectations? And, of course, did your favourites make...
27 March – Don’t talk, listen to me, friend
There are times when you know how a song is going to do. Even before it graces a Eurovision stage. Some are guaranteed certain...
23 March – Sunny Sunday or rainy Sunday, on every Sunday...
We get songs about all subjects at our favourite TV programme. Love, the planet, San Francisco. But people even sing songs about days of...
21 March – I am sailing on a sea of dreams
Songs get some by performers in many forms. I like soloists as they can put everything into their singing. I also like groups as...