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(The royal) we’ve got love

Thanks to Ewan over at Escinsight for that tag line! Jessica Mauboy better be being paid well because they’ve got her doing almost everything on...

Eurovision 2018 – Day two at a glance

From the Macedonian closed rehearsal (um problema technicao) through to the Cypriot feugo, today brought us the second half of the first semi-final. Nobody...
Prediction

Eurovision Countdown 2018 – Scores on the doors

43 songs, reviewed and rated by the OnEurope panel. Sometimes slack-jawed with disbelief, but often with a smile upon their faces. It's a love...

Georgian gorgeousness

So following on from our cheesy breakfast and the cheesy pop of Australia we have Georgian ethno-jazz band Iriao bringing something very classy. Now...

Latvia … still as funny as …

<insert your own punchline> To me, and this is clearly only my opinion, Laura doesn't have the facial expressions or the kind of voice to...

Ukraine – more over the top than under the ladder

For reasons undisclosed, the feed from the hall cut out and we only got half of the song during the first two rehearsals. On the...

Slovenia: desperate times call for desperate measures

Slovenia should work better. It has some of the elements of a much better, more cotemporary song. She sings and performs it very well....

What does the web predict for the second semi-final?

And we're back ... Eurovision Song Contest fans get to settle down for a second 2018 appetizer. Eighteen songs compete for the remaining ten...

Russia – I’m not sure if it’s a deliberate ploy

...but this is either trolling on the highest level, or a grave miscalculation from Russia. First of all Yulia is sitting atop a MOUNTAIN on...

Iceland – Hello, is that 1992 … they want their song...

Ari looks silly on the screens. He's got a silver suit on with some preposterous red trimming that I hoped would light up and...