Since I’ve been gone …
There was an hour for lunch - where we caught up with everything that had happened. Then, the rest of OnEurope's hangers-on decided that...
Eurovision 2009 – The draw for running order
First off, here it is ...
1 Lithuania
2 Israel
3 France
4 Sweden
5 Croatia
6 Portugal
7 Iceland
8 Greece
9 Armenia
10 Russia
11 Azerbaijan
12 Bosnia-Herzegovina
13 Moldova
14 Malta
15 Estonia
16 Denmark
17 Germany
18 Turkey
19...
Chiara has changed her backdrop
And instead of fishes it now shows stars and things... This is good - However, her wardrobe faux pas for today will be seen...
She’s back
Franko: Well what can I say? Chiara comes on and is Chiara. She does all the usual hand gestures and the Chiara wink. I...
Faraway in an English country garden
With our arena correspondents having wandered off to see other bits of Moscow, I'm left playing catch-up once again.
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I'm not struck...
Oh flaming NL….
Visions in gold lame at all the parties, some say they turn up to the opening of an envelope ... except the envelope opening...
Bella – Rus
Franko: What I hear you cry. Where is Belgium? Alas they have suffered the same fate as us in the accreditation queue and are...
Slow….Venia?
Phil: Slovenia - Well we managed to get into the hall to see a couple of rehearsals of this and, unfortunately, I am still...
Let the parties commence
Now the opening of Euroclub is often a slightly underwhelming experience - a few bit of pineapple on sticks, and a hapless Israeli DJ...