The Eurovision Fan Bubble: Inclusive, Toxic, or Both?
It's less than a month until the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest kicks off in Basel, Switzerland. Across platforms, fans dissect every note, critique every costume,...
Eurovision: Those we have lost 2020
Around about now, we should be getting excited about tonight's 2020 Eurovision Song Contest, but that was not to be. Instead, let's take a...
Why Your Favourite Song Won’t Win Eurovision – 2023 Version
It’s that time of year again when I look closely at the panoply of songs coming at us from this year’s Eurovision hopefuls, assess...
If all you saw was a girl in a wheelchair, what...
It was little more than a week ago that Russia's Channel One announced Julia Samoylova as its choice for the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest. At...
OMG – It’s only the first OnEurope Podcast!!
Well having always been at the forefront of the technological age here at OnEurope towers - Several years too late I've invested in some...
San Marino … The gift that keeps on giving
Not content with making a mockery of the entire selection procedure by allowing all and sundry to enter and then, ya know, weighting the...
Malta, Malta, Malta. I don’t usually get angry but …
Last night you made me angry. To my eyes and ears Janice Mangion was clearly the best singer, with the best song, and the...
So Joost didn’t break the law, just a camera
The Malmo police have closed the book on assault allegations against 2024 Dutch Eurovision entrant Joost Klein's. A statement by the Malmo police said:
"The...
Why Your Favourite Song Isn’t Going To Win Eurovision – 2024...
So, seeing as everybody has boycotted this year’s Eurovision this annual feature of ours is completely immaterial this time round. Wait! What? Oh heck,...
La Bella Italia? – Mostly
If you have been reading these missives, and I know plenty of you have, you’ll have noticed that I’ve drawn comparisons between ages and...