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Friday, October 3, 2025
ONEUROPE: Eurovision Song Contest news

Russia – eeeerm WTF?!!?

I've been coming to this shindig for 14 years and I'm not often wrong-footed or dry with words. This is one of those times. They start...

Bye heck the wifi keeps dropping…

The WiFi is intermittent at best here now so I'm piggy backing on Ewan Spence's mac! Cheers Ewan! Fairly surprising being here in hi...

Russia – Urination on Danish Chippy Chips??

Again, another polished performance.  The issue with 2nd rehearsals, as NickD has just so eloquently said, is that we don't often see anything new,...

Austria to Russia, lunch and inside the arena

I've been thrown by an early lunch break. I was waiting for Croatia to post it with Austria only to find they were having...

Rehearsals, live in my own living room

With a good chunk of the team in place in Malmö it’s day one of rehearsals. The assembled press of Europe are crammed into...

My contest and other giants

What a day I've had.  It's been a day of highs and higher highs.  We finally got to see what some of the fuss...

This is what they bloody want!!

I'm going to use my first Royism of the year... "Shit my old boots" She may look like Princess Fiona from the popular Shreck series, but...

And now there’s a bread oven

"Aww cute" is not the phrase I am looking for here - its Godawful and looks no better than the first rehearsal. The bread oven is...

Trying to put some flesh on the skeletal service

Hi folks. Well we're still here.  My boss still suspects nothing about my subversive activities - long may that continue.  Maybe I prefer writing for...

Day Two catch up by Rosé…

Well I've been at bloody Heathrow all day on a course and been trying to steal moments away to keep abreast of things but...