Azeri it happens
Ah much better. Our first qualifier of the day. An effective opening with a dancer wrestling with a red sheet leads into effective sequence...
Grease on the stage Sakis?
Phil: Well his first run through was a complete dogs breakfast. There was lots of choreography attempted in this one - they have some...
Now this is more like it – again – Azerbaijan
Julie Wright - she of Euronet/DotEurovision/ESCNation fame - told me weeks ago that this was going to do well, and I dismissed her shenanigans...
Eurovision 2009 – A view from afar
Now, to my Jaded eye (do you see what I did there?), none of these looked half bad - until the last 30 seconds...
Ronan by numbers for Denmark at Eurovision
Phil: Why oh Why did he not sing this one himself? Instead of which, he sends his Danish twin brother -Brinck - to sing...
Latvia – Traffic Jam or Strawberry
Phil: It seems they may have become unstuck with the contest down old Riga way with this. Apparently its a song called 'Traffic Jam'...
The Irish are firing on one cylinder
Phil: Whilst I am mindful that this is a rehearsal, I have heard this sung better. Sinéad Mulvey and Black Daisy seem not to...
So much for the afternoon shift…
OK. Let's look back on today in Moscow, as that's really what we're all here for.
Israel - almost entirely pleasant. A few worrying fluffs...
She’s back
Franko: Well what can I say? Chiara comes on and is Chiara. She does all the usual hand gestures and the Chiara wink. I...