What’s the difference between a Kazakh and an Aussie?
Kazakh broadcaster Channel 31 has been refused entry to the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest, but Australia’s participation in the Eurovision seems to have come...
Eurovision Countdown 2025: Malta is just slaying
MaltaMiriana Conte – Serving
Ah, Malta. That plucky island nation whose Eurovision strategy seems increasingly based on handing the keys to someone young, eager, and...
Belarus is the right song at the right time
If you, dear viewer, have noticed my writings over the last hour or so, the last four songs are a touch challenging when all performed...
This is the middle of the night…
Collapsed on my sofa bed at 2.30am and Rosé like a crumpled phoenix four hours later still drunk and yet with a moderate to...
Eurovision Countdown 2025: Montenegro is back
MontenegroNina Žižić – Dobrodošli
Montenegro returns to the contest with Nina Žižić—a name Eurovision fans may remember from her high-camp cyborg guest vocal in 2013’s...
ESC birthdays 20/5 – It’s official, Eurovision is magic
I was a very bad Riigi yesterday. I missed an important birthday of someone who is a legend in his own country. He was...
Qualifiers draw their half for the Grand Final
The ten songs through to Saturday's Eurovision Song Contest final took part in a press conference and draw to decide which half of the...
San Marino Locks in National Final for Three Years
Despite public statements from San Marino RTV suggesting uncertainty over Eurovision 2026, the country’s government has quietly - and officially - committed San Marino...
Video Vault Season 2 – What “Delights”..?
Well Deller and I have had a conflab via the medium of the book of face and have decided that this off-season we're going...
Love and Marriage, go together like a horse and …
... no, not another horse, more like the one-trick pony that this was always going to be - but one thing you can say...