Sweden – no longer looking like the winner
Frans barely needs to rehearse this anymore from the performance perspective at least, and even from a technical perspective this already seems completely polished.
It...
16 October – We’re going u-u-u-u-u-u-up
Hang onto your hats, your gloves, your scarves. It's Sweden. And it's someone who may have taken part in our favourite TV show on...
27 November – Undo my sad
Do you prefer a banger of a song, or are you more a ballad-lover? Are you the first on the dancefloor when that Schlager...
Sweden: Bengtsson and Mamas to finalen – Sandman gets to sing...
Melodifestivalen, many people's idea of what a national final should look and sound like (though not mine) started this evening, with the first heat...
31 December – The nightingale sings a song for her lover
We end the year with a legend among singers from the more northern end of our fair continent. Still in show business, she's been...
Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Sweden
I get the impression SVT has been treading water. They've wanted to stay in the top ten, but it felt too soon for a...
11 December – I’m done, tipping on my toes
Schadenfreude. I wonder if the Germans have a word for it? To be fair, the schadenfreude relates more to the country rather than the...
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...
5 March – Play cool music on your walkman
I like to think that most of the best songs to come from Sweden were in the 1980s. Classic after classic after classic. Well,...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2024 Part 34 – Sweden
I’ve complained to anyone who’ll listen to me (and plenty who wished they hadn’t) about the sub-par quality of this year’s Melodifestivalen. Yes, yes,...