4 February – You’ll only see me singing
I mention from time to time that we love someone who tries. Even though they'll never be the continent's favourite. Often through no fault...
24 January – I want to bathe in your body of...
Luck plays a huge part in our favourite TV show. Who gets through from a semi-final depends on who you're lucky enough to get...
5 January – I’ll break my cell phone, yours and mine
When you've only got three minutes to make a statement, you should think about how you do it. A nice safe song with wide...
28 December – My heart can love for the both of...
Some songs are just so good they get roundly ignored by the televoters and juries of Europe (and beyond). Other times, they get what...
7 December – I live in a dream, don’t think bad...
It must be daunting to open our favourite TV show, but at least you get to the Green Room bar before everyone else. You...
30 October – There’s so much I carry with me
It's often a quandary for countries on what type of music to enter in our favourite TV show. Do they go for something generic...
12 October – The flowers are my place
That thing where you represent your country, in your country. There's no pressure at all, oh dear me no. Seriously, it must be an...
21 June – The voices of the wind and the waves...
What do you now? It's Lusitanian singing that was largely ignored by the juries of Europe. I'll admit that not everything Portugal did was...
9 June – My body is the ship on the tide...
If you ever get the gig to represent your country, you have to be prepared for failure as well as success. Only one country...
15 May – You came as a flower that I have...
Every song - in it's own way - makes its own piece of history. It could be a country's début song. It could be...