Phil’s Eurovision Countdown – Part 9 – Bulgaria
After having a weekend away with chums from Eurovision Ireland and other places, I appear to be a little bit short on the old...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown – Part 7 – Belarus
Now, as I am away for the weekend you’ll be pleased to know that I knocked this up when sober so ...
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22 March – It’s an overload in a disco fantasy
Now there's a lyric that's bound to get your interest. Discos? Fantasies? It could be any song that involves glitter and maybe even a...
15 March – You can act foolish
I had a massive choice of birthdays today. It'll give me plenty of birthdays for years to come. So you may be wondering why...
Worth the hype? Bulgaria breaks the silence
Way back when the 2018 Eurovision betting market opened, the shortest odds went against usual suspects Australia and Sweden, and to recent upstart Bulgaria.
After...
Why bother with just the one Eurovision song?
If you can't quite decide what sort of song to send to the world's longest-running musical competition, why not do what the Macedonians have...
Russian singer vows not to break
We're closer than ever to a full pack of songs for the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest, and the latest internal selection to surface comes...
10 March – The key is in you
We've only got a few more songs from the 2018 crop to hear, and I for one can't wait for them. Today, we get...
Are we dancers? No, we’re humans … if you’re Romanian
So, after FIVE semi finals in various weird and wonderful locations around Romania - including an actual salt mine - a professional jury and...
A Dal – From deep in the bowels of hell
As Roy D Hacksaw would say, death to juries, as they nearly didn't get the winner through to the superfinal, where the public voted...