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Romania First Rehearsal

This is proper class. Nicola bounces along like the Duracell bunny with 4 backing singers with giant records cavorting on the stage. Unfortunately it seems...

Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2018 – Romania

The Romanian Eurovision song this year sounds like the sort of thing someone at the BBC might have offered to Bonnie Tyler back in...

17 August – Yodeleeii, yodeleeii, yodeleeii, yodeleioo

It would be a dull old Eurovision if all the songs sounded the same. They obviously don't, otherwise they'd all finish up with the...

Monty’s Eurovision Countdown Part 32 – Romania

WRS is pronounced Urs, which should give me every opportunity to shoehorn in a quip about my love for bears. WRS himself is quite...

Russian to put a bet on this…

If you can get good odds on this have a flutter. I think it’s safe to say the biggest ballad of the year (although not...

Where on earth do I start with this one!!!

Well considering Cologne is approximately 20 miles from Dusseldorf I can almost hear the collective jaw dropping from here at the Russian performance. It has,...

27 March – Your heart is like a beating drum

There's often an air of inevitability about some results. A certain republic surrounded by Italy will do badly. A country on the Caspian Sea...

23 January – I shout to you from over the seas

Début entries? Don't you love them? That new country comes along with high hopes of success. They maybe can't believe they're mixing it with...

3 February – And I know the love exists

As we know, countries have come and gone when it comes to participating in our favourite TV show. Some we miss, and some, well,...

15 January – My eyes were drinking from your eyes for...

Much as I hate to say it, but Sweden has been involved in more than its fair share of good contests over the years....