Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 Part 29 – Portugal
Deslocado by NAPA
I have a soft spot for Portugal in Eurovision and have been to the Festival da Canção a couple of times....
3 May – Today I was left empty to get filled...
We will soon have a new winner of the Eurovision Song Contest. Who will it be? One of the lucky qualifiers from a semi-final?...
Eurovision Countdown 2025: San Marino is Italian too
San Marino
Gabry Ponte - Tutta L'Italia
Every year, Eurovision’s tiniest and most stubborn microstate pulls on its rhinestoned boots and gives it another go. San...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 Part 28 – Poland
GAJA by Justyna Steczkowska
I really enjoyed Poland’s 1995 entry Sama although few thought much about it after it opened the show. Singer Justyna...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 Part 27 – Norway
Lighter by Kyle Alesandro
Where PARG copied, Kyle Alessandro innovated as the first of this year’s Armoured Twinks during his performance in Norway’s Melodi...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 Part 28/37 – Poland
Poland - Justyna - GAYA
For those of you that are old enough to remember Justyna the first time round in 1995 - Welcome to...
2 May – As a ghost I will walk
Eurovision is a young person's game. Or is it? People of all ages from 11 to, well, unknown, despite a certain presenter in 1987...
Nick “does” 2025 – Netherlands (The)
NETHERLANDS (The) – C’est La Vie – Claude
When I was about 12, I wrote a short essay/poem about a rollercoaster for English class at...
Eurovision Countdown 2025: Portugal is warm
Portugal—so often the earnest, acoustic soul of the contest—has delivered something this year that feels neither desperate nor overwrought, which in Eurovision terms is...
Eurovision Countdown 2025: Poland is a pagan rave
Poland
Justyna Steczkowska – Gaja
Poland’s brought out the big guns this year. And by “big guns,” we mean Justyna Steczkowska—Eurovision veteran, reality TV mentor, high...