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Phil reviews Eurovision 2006

Sylvia Night is a fuckwit of the highest order. She has a perfectly good song, she has a perfectly good act, she had a...

Invasion of the Bright Red Northerners

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. And it was all going so well too! The boat trip out to the islands was fantastic, the weather...

A little bit of yes, a little bit of no

I had the pleasure of sitting next to Phil Colclough, OnEurope during the UK rehearsal, which is his first sighting of it live. He...

Showing respect to my boys who made it through

Embed from Getty Images Actually, I've not been terribly respectful at all for the last hour. I gave Texas Lightning a couple of listenings, just...

Germany, Denmark and Mihai

Germany - are looking all over the winner. Yes I know I have put 10 of your earth pounds on Finland at 20/1, but...

They’re not making me happy today

I've just come into the press centre, where the Norwegians were playing a bit of folkloric music sounding very like the sort of thing...

Norvegia, Espania (oh dear lord!) and Maltia

Now some would say that I've been a bit negative ... and you'd be right! But seriously, I can see the good in things,...

Not so good. Not so good.

Embed from Getty Images Only saw a couple of run-throughs of Israel, and he seems to be trying a bit harder and it's not helping....

We’re a little bit…

The welcome party was very loud last night. Very little socialising with elegant people, and lots of P6 shouting that he couldn't do any...

So this Opening Party …

Obviously we’re such slaves to love that we missed the first little bit watching the rather marvellous Daz and gals both rehearse and conference...