11 December – Tomorrow we’ll have gardens for picking bouquets of...
What do you do if your country doesn't pick you to represent them at our favourite TV show? You find someone else who will....
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown Part 38 – Switzerland
It’s a return to the sad and introspective numbers now for our weeping Bear from Switzerland. Marius ponders the male relationship with crying and...
5 August – The coffee I made yesterday is still hot
It's a scary fact that there will be participants in our favourite TV show who were born after 2000. Does that make you feel...
S*itzerland… Back to usual form
Well Melanie comes on stage in one dress, then uses the back of her dress as a batfink style cape… her wings are, quite...
Filling in the gaps of love
Right then, so I've had a quick check up of the vids of other tunes, and this is the things I discover.
They weren't half...
Eurovision Babylon – Scalping, scams and suspect behaviour
Dirty dancing
Confidence in your song is essential at Eurovision. Over-confidence tends to go down like a cup of cold sick. Swiss singer Luca Hänni...
28 April – I don’t breathe if you are not here
There are some classic songs around and people argue about them. Today's IS a classic. Go on, challenge me if you dare! The sharp-eyed...
6 April – After the storm, we walk a bit
Many people have trodden the boards more than once, some with aplomb, and some doing stuff we'd rather not talk about. And I'm not...
So that’s Day 1 done then?
Let me catch up with the vids at eurovision.tv - I know other sources of video footage are available, but I kind of trust...
Switzerland … Where’s the energy?
As you can see, rather worryingly, it looks as though (lead singer) Miruna too is going through the motions and is almost pleading for...