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FYR Macedonia – Again, just background noise…..

This should be a good song. Tijana is a good singer but this is just a nothing of a performance. She doesn't have the...

Ireland & Belarus

Ireland is not quite as bad as I believe it was in the first rehearsal. They have a great stage projection, Celtic knots and...

Rosé’s Russia and does Azerbaijan (my favourite) scrub up?

Russia Well well well... Many songs are a disappointment when they transfer to the Eurovision stage but I was pleasantly surprised by this watching in...

Russia’s not actually that bad…

We stayed in the hall for this. I'd read the early reports from the first rehearsal and I wasn't expecting very much but it's...

And the 5 I missed… oops

Well the coverage from Copenhagen hasn't been even so I was bound to miss a few. Here's a piece of hard crusty Danish bread...

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...

For I have returned and the world will be sorry… mwah...

Yes the wilderness is over and I'm even tempted to return to the contest itself next year as the finances are looking less ropey....

Macedonia (FYR) – Busy…..

This song lends itself to a busy staging and that's what it gets, lots of lights and choreography and the floor changing and doing...

Belarus…. Complete Contrast

Compared to Ireland, Belarus is a complete contrast and in very good ways too! Teo will look you in the camera, look you in the...

1:22 of Moldova

.....that's all they put on the screens in the Press Centre so I can't tell you what It was like.  All I can tell...