Malta – Undoing the magic of Television
I'm going to let you into a secret here, OnEuropeans, the Maltese appeared to be using a classic trick to fool us into believing...
Russia – mmm, do you smell the saline?
The first thing to tell you is that there were a lot of mirrors and screens to get on stage. All in the 32...
Armenia – it’s all a bit … edgy
Srbuk was left alone on the stage in this performance, and the stripped-back look on screen suited the vocal to a point, but there...
Croatia – Roko gets his Eurovision wings
Croatia. Or as they were christened the last time - when Jacques Houdek sang - "Fucking Croatia".
In news that suited my eyes, for the...
Georgia – You could almost hear the gear change from here
After the totally dour and insipid, we got the inspired staging of Georgia. This was nowhere on Saturday and then he hit the stage...
Romania – Clearly never on a Saturday
The phrase "a nag set to music" was surely coined for this song. Ester seemed to make this feel like hard work and despite...
Albania – What was that?
Next Thursday, Albania follows Russia onto the stage. And if you thought Sergey went big on effects, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Unfortunately, the...
Estonia – Problems abound.
You know what you are going to get with Victor Crone: a solid performance from someone who knows when to look at the camera...
Reaching out … Touching me … Touching YOU!
Hello, OnEuropeans, Phil here.
Now I know that people have been viewing - our page views are through the Eurovision roof (and I've not been...
Denmark – Has she got the motion?
Click + above to see what is lacking in this performance: a Simon Snorkel lift to get Thumbelina Leonora into her chair. She actually...