Engelbert brings good and bad
Typical of my country at anything, let alone the Eurovision - there was lots of good things, and lots of bad things too.
Good news...
Coming on strong
I've clearly been doing this thing for too many years because I am about to write a phrase I never thought I would do...
Spain...
Loreen still doesn’t have me convinced
Sweden are now freely quoted at 7/4 to win this contest, a price not seen since monkey boy back in 2009. This song ain't...
Slovenia – class in a bucket
Well I may have only just got up but I can still spot class when I hear and see it, and this has it...
Travelling with the stars
So, dear readers, we left you yesterday at Heathrow about to board out glamour jet to Baku. We had already rubbed shoulders with Mr...
Ukraine II
If Portugal put me in a coma, The Ukraine snapped me out of it by slapping me round the face and going "Top 4...
Portugal II
Same old same old really. Filipa sings the song well but, it doesn't move me the way Senhora did and thats the songs downfall....
Indiana Joan gives it some welly
Couple of dodgy notes at the start from Indiana Joan there (as she has been christened, it seems!) but basically a sound performance, and...
Oh dreary me
Oh d(r)eary me its a Balkan fest! Local instruments, local oboist, local singer!. Zeljko is going to open the semi in his lounge suit,...
Are we there yet?
Yep, we're still in the Baku Beyond reporting on Europe's favourite TV show. It seems like I've never lived anywhere else and the other...