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Friday, September 5, 2025
ONEUROPE: Eurovision Song Contest news

Lunchtime!

That Jody and I popped out for a bit of light luncheon. We ate in the grand surroundings of the 4th floor restaurant of...

Estonia

I love it when I can see a plan coming together. Elina and Stig aren’t spending a lot of their 30 minutes on singing today,...

S*itzerland… Back to usual form

Well Melanie comes on stage in one dress, then uses the back of her dress as a batfink style cape… her wings are, quite...

Australia – really rather good for 10 seconds

After the first 10 seconds I went… “Shit”… It all went a bit meh after that to be honest. Guy is clearly a professional…. singer...

Portugal is not giving me much to work with

I’m kind of fumbling for stuff to grasp onto here. Leonor looks very much like Clara Oswald in 2015-era Doctor Who. The backdrop turns...

Azerbaijan….. Hungry like the Wolf

Elnur is channeling Ingmar Bergman with this performance and, as Ewan from ESC Insight has just explained to me, it’s very very symbolic staging...

Vaidas from Lithuania is Lovely

Lovely Vaidas is on stage now. Lovely Vaidas is singing a duet. Lovely Vaidas has changed his waistcoat for a proper suit today, but...

Eurovision 2015 – Another day of rehearsals

The morning after the night before at Eurovision is always a little bit sad, with dejected fans, disappointed delegations, and some oddments of promotional...

Off to all corners of the globe (except South America)

My table for the day keeps reminding myself that Armenia have a hot mess of a song, and they kind of do. Yes. What...

Oh yes Knez…

How to stage a song exhibit AA from Montenegro and the gorgeous and rich voice of Knez. No props, no fake instruments, no clutter.....