Monty’s Eurovision Countdown Part 4 – AUSTRIA
Nobody But You by Cesár Sampson
Such is the recent success of Bulgaria at Eurovision that the team behind this has been drafted into other...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown Part 15 – FRANCE
Mercy by Madame Monsieur
After two good results from internally selected entries it was a surprise to see a return to a national final in...
20 times Eurovision has kept it in the family
I’ve heard it said – or rather I used to hear it being said – that the Irish have Eurovision ‘in their blood’ –...
Azerbaijan – iceberg ahead!
And we’re off! Azerbaijan is the first song we see in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. Aisel is in white, legging it around the...
Macedonia – we get there in the end … Sorta …...
It’s Day 2 in the Big Brother House. Oh, no, different pressure chamber, it’s the Eurovision Press Centre. I’m recovering from a hike up...
Serbia – what a load of old Balkans …
If you are talking generic and if you are talking about songs that clearly know their audience, then Serbia should be right at the...
It’s loud and I like it
The Hungarian boys from AWS now and this will wake anyone up who perhaps nodded off during the commercial break that precedes them. They...
Croatian Crazy talk
Mr Phil was away getting a coffee, so he left me in charge, and armed with just thirty selective seconds of footage (and a...
Live Blog – Eurovision 2018 second semi final
It's time for 'Fanning's Folly II - This time it's personal' - and another one of those fancy little live blogs that OnEuropean visitors...
In, out, in, out … shake it all about
In news that must surely surprise nobody, (the Former Yugoslav Republic of) Macedonia is back in Eurovision.
An EBU press release today stated:
"The EBU and...