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Tuesday, September 9, 2025
ONEUROPE: Eurovision Song Contest news

This is an ungodly hour to be up and at work...

So yeah, Wiener Philharmonik sounded good. Zubin Mehta gives decent dirigenting. Rudolf Buchbinder a perfectly respectable Klavierer. However, I stood in a two inch...

Moldovan high jinks

First up for the day is Moldova and it’s so in your face it’s almost a bukakke party. I’m not convinced that comedy gay...

Servus!

Servus! I can’t quite bring myself to use the more formal Gruß Gott, what with the lack of divide between church and cheerful greeting...

We’ve arrived and we are hanging!

The BA702 was uneventful though three beverage-ettes managed to slip down our necks and by the end of the flight all the crew and...

Poland……

I’ve self-censored myself twice in order to not get my accreditation revoked!! It was perfectly serviceable, in fact it’s more than that it’s actually very...

Slovenia….. Dear ORF…

…please kindly sort out your cameras and stage direction and soundmix thanks very much. Love… me. For a song that has all the hallmarks of a...

A quick Slovenia, then off for culture

I’m heading over to the Schonbrunn Palace this evening to watch Zubin Mehta conduct the Vienna Philharmonic in the open air. Should be culturetastic,...

Cyprus……… weeeeeeeeeellllllllll

It’s…. a ballad. No, seriously, That is the best thing I can say about this song. The Cypriot NF that took TEN weeks and had...

Cyprus are staging this ALL WRONG.

I’m really quite upset here. I expected John to break my heart in a good way this afternoon. Staged right, that could have had...

Sweden – really more a technical rehearsal than anything else

I suspect there’s not going to be too much useful to say here. Måns and his tiny chums are more or less replicating what...