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ONEUROPE: Eurovision Song Contest news

*tap tap tap* – Is this thing on?!!

Well for those of you that didn't know, we have arrived (congratulations!) This year, unlike in recent ones, we were not stiffed by taxi...

My qualifiers – but what about yours?

Moldova Slovakia Finland Serbia Bosnia Belgium Albania Greece Iceland Malta But we'd be interested to hear your ten qualifiers to see if we can get an OnEurope-wide opinion of what's going through or not...

Funk. Get it? Sounds like ****

Lovers of Blackadder will get my reference above. But back to Lithuania who are obviously in 2006 mode and out to enjoy themselves no...

Women draped all over Marcin like a bad rash

When you're feeling tired and not quite in the mood there are some songs that will just lift you and send you off with...

Azerbaijan doesn’t sound like a winner to me…

It sounds weak, and limp, and lifeless and has been choreographed to within an inch of its life. Safura looks like she is trying...

Are you feeling the inspiration yet?

There can't be many people in Estonia called Malcolm. He's dressed very dapper much like his Vicks Sinex namesake or Michael Caine's Alfie on...

What in God’s name were the Latvians thinking?

It was all looking so promising for a few minutes there, but now we're back to the dirges. The Latvians have called their song What...

Portu-Gull – Back to making up numbers

I'm one of the people who perversely liked this before coming to Oslo. Mostly I think because I instinctively like things that other people...

Well I suppose i’d best write something, being in the press...

Moldova is up first as the rain is coming down rather heavily here in Oslo but shockingly I am rather surprised. I really didn't...

Angsti

I'm in a small minority liking the Bulgarian entry. Most people suggest that Miro is smug, slightly too orange and has put on weight...