Montenegro – When you distill essence of Balkan …
… You get Eau de Joksimovic. This has “Balkan” written all the way through it and despite Knez not looking unlike the ex MP...
Estonia – Goodbye to Italy
There are people on this table where I am writing this are saying that this song is not that good.
They are wrong.
This song now...
Live from the Red Carpet
I can’t stay long dear reader, as we’re off on a field trip to Bratislava today, but I just popped by to let you...
Iceland – Even with Hera
There are no redeeming features for this song. It’s badly staged ( i.e a 22 yr old in a 9 yr olds clothing) singing...
San Marino, guilty pleasure
Despite lapsing into ‘Eurovision cliche number 4382: lighting candles’ within the first 40 seconds San Marino is my guilty pleasure this year. They fed...
Former Yugoslav Republic of Maybe
Daniel up next for FYR Macedonia sporting beige trenchcoat, black denim, yellow trainers and a bin bag effect cravat! He’s actually rather handsome in...
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...
Some kind of ranking – semi 1
Not sure I’ll find time to do this for semi 2 as well, but let’s get my thoughts in some sort of order.
POTENTIAL WINNERS
Realistically,...
Moldova and Armenia
Now, I’ll be entirely honest here, Moldova and Armenia haven’t had my full attention, as I’ve been live chatting with EE customer service convincing...
And then there were (still!) 27
Well well well. We have our final line up. All this and we’ve still only lost 13 songs! What a great semi final yesterday:...