Austria’s opera star goes full pop
High drama. Higher notes. JJ’s “Wasted Love” is the Eurovision aria you didn’t know you needed.
When Austria picked a 24-year-old male soprano with a...
Eurovision Countdown 24 – Czechia according to Mo
Aiko brings an eighties American punky girl band vibe to Eurovision. I sort of expect the vocals to be ropey live, but I’m not...
Azerbaijan doesn’t sound like a winner to me…
It sounds weak, and limp, and lifeless and has been choreographed to within an inch of its life. Safura looks like she is trying...
Denmark – a walk on the weak side
Came on out of order. Jakub and his four male backing singers do very light choreography - minimal movement, bit of swaying and walking...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown Part 4 – Azerbaijan
Mata Hari by Efendi
I could pluck three words from the lyrics of this and deliver you of the most precise and succinct review of...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown Part 12 – DENMARK
Higher Ground by Rasmussen
There’s an adage that if you can’t say anything nice you shouldn’t say it at all and were it not for...
Eurovision Countdown 24 – Azerbaijan according to Mo
After the all-time low of Cleopatra, there’s been a sense that Azerbaijan is determined to get by without buying in something from Sweden. Last...
Three songs make Danish national selection
From a starting field of nine, three songs have secured spots at the 2020 danish Eurovision Song Contest national final.
This year, broadcaster DR has...
Belgium – Ryanair coming in to land
It is a whole lot better than it was last night. The general accepted view is that, last night, she was absolutely bloody awful.
However,...
19 March – I’ll be faithful to you
We go with a non-English language song today. And our friends in Denmark are sending a song to Turin in Danish. That's twice in...