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ONEUROPE: Eurovision Song Contest news

Andorra – Jesus god!!

I suspect in 2:00 time she'll start wailing for no apparent reason. She still wears the black dress and does all sorts of business...

I come bearing news from the OAKA Arena

Treble are going nowhere. The performance is pretty much what you saw in the Dutch national final and the preview video, but they sound...

Western Swing

Hey, that Texas Lightning are dead good by the way. Solid, charming, happy-go-lucky - it'll do alright. Every now and again I got a 'this...

The spidercam makes it

Still looks every inch a qualifier to me, but yes, I will concede that this song is made by the SpiderCam shot in part,...

So, as I say, “Hello!”

Apparently Website Producer Hobnob Tracy thinks that "Hello!" is an insufficient piece of reportage to justify my P2ness. "Fair enough", says I. My P2ness is...

Belarus and Albania

I've somehow managed to walk out on Kate Ryanair, before she'd even arrived on stage. How rude! I've also annoyed the hobnob by dropping...

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....

Well I think …

... I agree with Nick on many things, the French "situation" is not one of them. Yes, I agree that she looks like she...

And on to Ireland and Cyprus

Ireland are sort of... he looks alright, actually. Seems very confident and comfortable, the mix of the song is a bit beefier and meatier...

So, the last few …

Embed from Getty Images Although strictly speaking, the last one, cos I was in Carola's press conference for Estonia (but she looked a vision in...