Spain: sounding good, but switch back to the first outfits
It’s Spain now, and I unashamedly, unabashedly love this! I thought they’d got a fairly good sense of it by Friday, so there’s not...
Eurovision 2018 Live Blog
Join me tonight at 8pm (UK) for the Grand Final of the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest. It's another one of those 'wide open' years...
From icebergs to Iceland
Iceland next. There’s not a lot they can really do with this, so it’s relatively surprise free. Apart from Ari’s outfit. He’s wearing a...
Croatia – Damn that’s duuuurty
You know when you get a certain vibe from a song and you think "Cor blimey that looks good on stage"? Well I've just...
Boy wonder Rybak is bak!
So the Rybak opens the second semi final and the Norwegian package is pretty much ready to go. We missed the first run-through, but...
Poland: the music lights me up but I’d prefer not to...
Poland is up next. I do like this song, but it’s just not right on stage. They’ve done what they can to take some...
Israel have performed a miracle on that
The Israeli team has literally polished a turd. This really was substandard on Monday, and served to confirm all my conscious bias towards 'Toy'....
Germany (just) and Italy
I'm doing a double header, which I realise will cause that Phil a headache as it didn't fit the nice neat end of day...
Czech Republic – When favourites bomb in first rehearsals
Suffice it to say that the whoopsies in the press room (as Monty describes h*mose*ualists) got a bit hot under the collar when Mikolas...
Controversial piece number 318 – Saaaara Aalto
This song ... well ... it really does need some words to describe it, I guess.
The first set of words I'm going to use...