4 October – Salty tears
It's always tricky to be your country's début entry. Now before you correct me, it is debatable whether today's birthday girl was her country's...
Faraway in an English country garden
With our arena correspondents having wandered off to see other bits of Moscow, I'm left playing catch-up once again.
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I'm not struck...
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Romania
You know that phrase about the kitchen sink. Well I think Romania have got one of them as well, although it was difficult to...
Give a little war back to the world
It’s the 60th contest of course, a time to reflect on 25 years ago when I was young and thought that earnest exhortation to...
22 September – Mysterious forces were in childhood
Eurovision these days is all about English, isn't it? No other language gets a look in, does it? English is always the way forward.
It...
9 October – So step inside
There's often a dilemma, as a result of the free language rule. Do you aim for the wider audience by picking a more common...
Hungary – Is this your type of thing?
For everyone that doesn't like this song - me included - you will have to admit after having seen AWS, that this is how...
Eurovision Countdown 2017 – Part 6
Every few days between now and the Big Show, OnEurope's pundits continue to share ill-informed ideas about what's going to win the 2017 Eurovision...
Hungarians get the Eurovision blues
Phil: I have just witnessed the first goose bump moment of the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest from an unlikely source. The Hungarian lady, who's...
Hungary – Now then Freddie…. do your best
Still in the tan jacket, still in the good looking boy mode, Freddie has been and gone (it appears) in TWO rehearsals…. There has...