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Friday, August 22, 2025
ONEUROPE: Eurovision Song Contest news

Phil explains Eurovision 2012

Am gonna do the finalists in reverse order I think. Norway. You can't hide the fact that you are having trouble with a bad song...

Just another quiet night then?

Let's just pop into the euroclub for a couple they said and see how we feel... Yeah right...  Well it would have been silly to...

Book me a room in Rome

THAT is how to sell a good song to a European wide Audience of 107 Million. Nina is belting this song out with a...

Germany – still life

Oh yes - I had momentarily forgot the Big 5 (and the Azeris) have their first go today! Roman Lob may not have been touched...

Hump count = 1

Well here we are at the airport with a bottle of champagne and already the Hump Count is 1. We bumped into Mr Humperdinck checking in, and I...

Rounding off the afternoon

Here’s my catch up on the last three songs of the day. Norway Ooh this is going big in the hall isn’t it? That crunching electronic...

thanks for the Xtra help

How remiss of me not to thank Luke and the team at www.escxtra.com for their rehearsal vids, I literally couldn't do my bit of...

Monty reviews Belgium & Finland, and looks forward to tomorrow

Belgium Phil has the right adjective for this: adequate. There’s nothing in it which is distasteful, unpleasant, or even vaguely wrong, but yet still it’s...

Lithuania 2012

Donny Montell will represent Lithuania in the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest in Baku, Azerbaijan with the song "Love is blind". https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=28Zel35BCwo

It’s all about Sweden. And Spain. And Serbia. And maybe Ukraine…

Fresh from the first run through of the final, with a chance to see and hear how the songs all work in running order...