Wheels up!
Wheels up! We’re on our way to Eurovision! Your intrepid (is that the right word? Insipid?) twosome are on the road. Time to get...
Is Bulgaria beyond the bones or beyond the pail?
'This song is going to be a difficult watch for a Tuesday night,' said Ewan from ESCInsight and yer know what? He's absolutely right.
This...
My Irish dream shattered (possibly)
Ooh Ireland! What have you done? My favourite song of the year and you’ve tried to be too ambitious. Ryan starts well enough, looking...
(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...
Taking the Hacksaw to Eurovision Semi 2
Now that we've seen all of the songs in the Eurovision semi-final shows here in Lisbon, we asked our occasional contributor-at-large Roy D Hacksaw to give...
Portugal – Not Fado but Fad-ish
There are two schools of thought on this.
Mine is that this song is a 2:38 moan by one girl about the other girl's dead...
Israel wins 2018 Eurovision Song Contest
A nail-biting vote took the result of the 2018 contest down to the wire, but Israel was named the winner. Netta claimed a fourth...
Albania – If anything was ever nailed on …
... it is that Mr Bushpepa is going to qualify. Eugent has been the best thing on that stage so far today. He's effortless...
Croatia – qualification hopes may not be so crazy after all
After the delay to us seeing Macedonia, and their lack of pizzazz, Croatia dazzles from the first go. Franka is first framed in close...
Serbia – what a load of old Balkans …
If you are talking generic and if you are talking about songs that clearly know their audience, then Serbia should be right at the...