25 September – Up there we seem to flow, I’m certain...
Do you remember the 1990s? It was a fine decade when our favourite TV show moved in the general direction of getting bigger and...
More about Czech Eurovision pick
The Czech Republic will broadcast a live national selection on January 30. Despite teasing the show might be televised, it will continue to be...
27 October – Leave the windows open wide
Do you remember the start of this century/millennium? The bug was behind us and we had a whole new one hundred/one thousand years to...
23 May – I’m in orbit all the way around you
The 2020 Eurovision season is over. Or at least would have been over, had it happened on Saturday. But birthdays go on. For some...
Hamas attack survivor lands Eurovision gig
The Eurovision Song Contest has long been a stage for music, spectacle, and occasionally, controversy. Israel's choice for Eurovision 2025, Yuval Raphael, embodies all...
Ireland & Belarus
Ireland is not quite as bad as I believe it was in the first rehearsal. They have a great stage projection, Celtic knots and...
My camera never lies
Phil: If anyone important in the Cypriot delegation is reading this ... thank GOD you (and everyone else we have told) has spoken to Jon...
Chicken balls, drag, tutus and twink rock! Phew!
Ooh a lovely chicken ball salad with That Monty's hot sauce for lunch and it's onwards and upwards now to...
Austria.
Ooh Conchy! That was classy,...
The first 2018 proper national final – La France? C’est vous!
I know people will think that Albania is the first proper national final, but as that took place in 2017 this - the French...
Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Latvia
When did the Latvians lose their Eurovision way? Back in their upstart days, we had rocky little numbers from Brainstorm. As recently as 2015,...