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Thursday, August 21, 2025
ONEUROPE: Eurovision Song Contest news

I have a ticket for Eurovision 2005!

Well its true I have a ticket for the final. Franko, gawd bless him, sweet talked his way past the Ukrainian KGB woman in...

Afternoon all – gubbins and rehearsals that we may have seen…

.....well we've had three so far this afternoon - Latvia, Monaco and Israel...... We have seen most of all of them - certainly enough...

Look out Athens – OnEurope’s headed your way!

Congratulations to Greece - I didn't think you were going to do it and I was starting to think we'd be heading back to...

4 more of them – now with another non tent conenction

Belarus - She may be "big star" and she may point like a diva queen, AND she may wear pink ( she knows her...

Runners and Riders – The Direct Cauliflowers

*taptaptap* Is this thing working? What do you mean, I'm f***ing live? Oh. Well, as the first wave of rehearsals draws to a close, it's...

Croatia – a totally not upsetting opinion

Unfortunately he pleads for your votes - and is next door so don't want to upset anyone else again today thanks!! - I cant...

Now – This is why I come to the Eurovision

Three songs in a row - and all of them are different but the same. Cyprus - Now, it was rumoured that the Cypriots had...

The sensible view

And it all begins. Negotiated our way past the security - who for no specified reason want us to check out laptops in and...

Meanwhile, out in the real world …

After the Moldovan excitement I thought it’d be nice to go out in the sunshine and have a stroll about. Well, it is lovely...

Eurovision 2005 – It’s all Greek to me

So here I’m sat, at Borospyl airport at getting on for six in the morning, having come pretty much straight from the after-show party....