Former Yugoslav Republic of Maybe
Daniel up next for FYR Macedonia sporting beige trenchcoat, black denim, yellow trainers and a bin bag effect cravat! He’s actually rather handsome in...
It appears I have returned in time for Macedonia!
Returned from a morning away and it seems this place has gone to rack and ruin under our serial Lush’s Monty and Jody (...
Arresting start from Moldova
Semi one kicks off with Eduard from Ukraine via Moldova on a climbing frame plonked on the stage as a helipad with with butch/camp...
This is an ungodly hour to be up and at work...
So yeah, Wiener Philharmonik sounded good. Zubin Mehta gives decent dirigenting. Rudolf Buchbinder a perfectly respectable Klavierer. However, I stood in a two inch...
Moldovan high jinks
First up for the day is Moldova and it’s so in your face it’s almost a bukakke party. I’m not convinced that comedy gay...
FYR Macedonia in a nutshell
Imagine, if you will, that Frizzle Sizzle were replaced with Rikki Peebles and the Humphrey Campbells, and that Superman’s unconvincing lair were replaced...
Albania and Romania Power
I know I’m supposed to do one post per rehearsal, but I’m running late and I’ve wanted to do that pun for like 12...
Romania – This is how you do it
Romania was always a song with a message. Take a song about a subject close to peoples hearts, especially in the UK ( Migrancy...
Russia and cognitive dissonance
So I set my ground rules years ago. You’ve got to ignore the country name, I said. You’ve got to just judge the song...
Russia…. This, Children, is dangerous
It’s performed to within an inch of it’s life.. It’s cleansed of all emotion apart from the story that Russian TV want it to...