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What’s not going to happen tonight

... as doomed, by my official predictions ... I knew the rest of yesterday was going to be odd when they played The First Noel...

Raw Finland

Phil: Well ... I don't know how I let this one pass me by quite frankly ... It's not a Lordi clone, because...

‘lil Italy will have to try harder

Phil: Now I don't know whether or not Miodio from San Marino is supposed to be off key in the beginning 25 seconds -...

Latvian Eurovision pirates totally terrifying in a bad way

As Roy might say, 'Shit my old boots!' It was totally terrifying in a bad way. Shambolic in the extreme, their singing - or...

Whelmed

Not overwhelmed, neither underwhelmed. Just whelmed. It was weird sitting in a semi and not going "EH?!?!?!". A couple of shrugs of "Ooh!" but now...

Moldova on toast

Nick: Another member of the UK delegation has just watched five seconds of the sound check, said "It's still rubbish" and wandered off for...

Filling in the gaps of love

Right then, so I've had a quick check up of the vids of other tunes, and this is the things I discover. They weren't half...

Russian Party Ennui

It is with great sadness that I have to report that last evening's Russian party was, well, a bit pump. Usually these events are debauched...

And La France

Franko: Here we go again. Another song I actually like that's given an unremarkable presentation and likely to finish in the bottom five. There's...

Last and quite possibly least … Norway

This is highly thought of in some circles, mainly fan polls but I can't really see why. Or perhaps I mean that I do...