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Semi 2 business

Now then, who were good and who were poor from yesterday's first run through? Well you would expect that Ukraine are a given. The act...

Some tittle tattle

Good morrow good reader! Many apologies for the paucity of entries in the last 24. Yesterday's semi 2 rehearsal was followed by a mad rush...

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...

About last night …

I have preconceived notions of Europe's opinions on yesterday night's shenanigans. However, I'm not going to read any of them before I write this....

Eurovision 2008 – First semi-final results

The first semi-final was held on 20 May 2008. Germany and Spain voted in this semi-final. Draw Country Language Artist Song Place Points 01 Montenegro Montenegrin Stefan Filipović "Zauvijek volim te" 14 23 02 Israel Hebrew, English Boaz Ma'uda "The Fire in...

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...

Serviette of Death – 2008 – Part A

All I have to say with regards to last night is - Oh my GOD Andorra is awful. I don't quite know what she...

Semi Final 1 – the possibles

After watching last night's show I'm still less the wiser, but a few thing began to become apparent. Here's how they all looked from...

Live blog – Eurovision 2008 – First semi-final – second rehearsal

... Or 'The Best Worst Two Hours Of My Life'. Having been surprised in Helsinki a year ago, we got to the arena in good...

Last night and today

Well the opening bash was as expected spectacular in the old presidential palace in all it's splendor. I apparently became much better acquainted with...