Eurovision, unplugged, unpolished, unapologetic
5.7 C
Vienna
Friday, October 3, 2025
ONEUROPE: Eurovision Song Contest news

Slovenia and Andorra take to the 2

Well ... Slovenia has grown on me - It still looks like a huge shambolic mess of stuff on stage - but the camera does...

Some things change, some things change the same

Just been reacquainting myself with Anzej Dejan in his stage costume, and you know, Slovenia suddenly looks dangerous to me. He's in a white...

I’ve abandoned a warbling Sandra Oxenryd …

...but I'll rejoin her shortly. When I was writing my previous blog, sitting comfortably in the press centre, I was joined in short order by...

Trust me – one Portugal is more than enough

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear It's still going wrong for them. I could only do one rehearsal for the Portugal but that was to...

It’s been a long old day in Eurovision Land

Then we get Carola. About 700 press packed into seeing her rehearse - and the first 3 times I saw it - I thought...

I come bearing news from the OAKA Arena

Treble are going nowhere. The performance is pretty much what you saw in the Dutch national final and the preview video, but they sound...

Two out of three ain’t bad

Netherlands is awful and NOS should consider doing us a favour and withdrawing like they promised in 2005. This song has the potential to...

Show me your F

Hurrah! After two hours in the accreditation tent this morning, I now have a laminated piece of plastic. It's in a classy shade of...

The best of the rest …

OK, so there are other songs, and they've all been pretty good today, actually. Russia looks like a real contender. He's confident without being too...

Ukraine – Is she going to show me your mum?

She does sound like she is singing that in the first couple of rehearsals but man, we like that lots. There is lots of...