6 June – My sweetheart is a girl who is torn...
There's been a little gap in central Europe of late. A gap which is countries currently having a few years out from our favourite...
30 November – Everybody deserves a chance
We miss our friends the Magyars, and we want them back. Perhaps mainly because they've tried a variety of musical styles down the years....
9 August – What brings the morning? Maybe nothing, maybe everything
We like looking at members of very exclusive clubs. There's the double winner's Club. That's pretty exclusive. Then there's the 2020-only Club. A little...
Joci Pápai to sing for Hungarian Eurovision supper
So after five weeks of singing and shouting and voting (and an impenetrable language) ... we got down to the final eight songs in...
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...
Tuesday’s child is full of grace – did you miss me...
Well since everyone else had Thursday off, I did too. Plus I spent all yesterday afternoon shut up with librarians and that's never good...
28 November – You’re such a casual man
We miss Hungary. There, we've said it. Putting politics aside, they've put in some memorable stuff since that début in sunny Ljubljana in 1993....
8 February – The bed next to me is empty
There are a few areas of the Eurovision world that are very cunningly tucked away. So tucked away that people often forget they're there....
Hungarian A Dal continues its journey
Now that the three first round heats have been completed in A Dal 2019, the eighteen qualified songs have been redrawn into two semi...