Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2024 Part 19 – Israel
There’s probably been more written about Israel’s participation in Eurovision 2024 than about any other entry, and much of it before any of us...
UK is going for gold
Ooh UK is brilliant! Lucie does so well. She’s alone in a mustard/gold-coloured dress, and she’s standing on a complicated erection, which has a...
Vocal Scares: Eurovision Throat Woes
With several artistes reportedly suffering from throat maladies, we take a quick look back at some of the other times the old vocal cords...
Yoorop’s living a celebration
Spanish TV has confirmed it will revive a previously successful format to pick its next Eurovision representative.
Operación Triunfo is a reality-show talent contest which...
Eurovision 2017 – Qualifiers from the first semi final
Ten songs have qualified tonight - some predictable, a few surprises - but that's the joy of Eurovision.
Shortly after the show ten winners of...
TV Slovenia gives us SIXTEEN for an EMA! – It’s like...
One of this webmaster's favourite national finals, EMA, has come round again and RTVSLO has given the world a list of songs and singers...
France – When a remix is a bad idea
So, the French have decided to shoe-horn some English into a perfectly decent song. I have a feeling their hand was forced by the...
Kalush Orchestra offered Ukrainian Eurovision place
After yesterday's news that Vidbir 2022 winner Alina Pash would not represent Ukraine at the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest, the broadcaster behind the entry...
Swiss army drafted in to help with Eurovision 2025
As Basel prepares to host the Eurovision Song Contest 2025, the city is implementing unprecedented security measures. Simultaneously, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 8 – Croatia
I hated Jacques Houdek’s ridiculous song in two-thousand-and-thankfully-forgotten. It was bizarre beyond belief that a broadcaster thought that this was a decent shout and...