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Riigi, give us some more baffling numbers

I know you’ll have digested those figures I posted on Monday, about how the first semi-finalists might score if everything runs to form. You...

Hacksaw on winners

You wanted more opinion on winners? You’ve come to the right place. Continuing our look at the winners, Roy – sorry, That’s Mr Roy...

Warrior #2, sign in please!

So with the editor-in-chief moonlighting for a popular ESC website from Ireland, whose name I won’t mention, it’s down to me to talk down...

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...

The Joksimovic entry, this year representing (checks) Montenegro

Knez is making life very easy for a lazy blogger here. If you’ve seen Zeljko’s other entries over the years then from second #1,...

San Marino – It is the Siegel entry

Well Ralph, you’ve done it again. You’ve managed to find two songs from your back pocket, sellotape them together and let loose two naive...

My little San Marino

Imagine, if you will, an ant standing next to an elephant, going “DUUHHH DUHHH DUUUHHHH MILLION VOIIIIICES. DUH DUHHHH DUHHH WON’T BE LOOOOONELY ANYMORE”...

Ireland and the Eurozone

So there I was, watching une petite Irlandaise née en Munster sitting at a piano in an unconvincing yet gorgeous CGI forest, and it...

Ireland – now THAT’S how you should have done it before

Now then RTE, thank the lord you have some sense and have listened to people that know what to do to stage a song!...

Lithuania via Not Stephansplatz

I’ll just nip out to Billa, I said. It’s only 5 minutes away at my local U-station, I said. I’ll stock up with Haribo...