Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 5 – Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan had an unblemished qualification record right up until last year, when Aisel fell short with the annoyingly titled X My Heart. To be...
Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Cyprus
Last year, CyBC entered a run-of-the-mill song that I'd heard a hundred times before. It nearly won the contest. And much of the credit...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 4 – Austria
Halfway through the voting in Lisbon it looked like we might be heading back to Vienna, as Cesar Sampson unexpectedly won the jury vote....
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 3 – Australia
Now in their fifth year of entry, Australia has an unblemished qualification record - although Jessica Mauboy fell far short of expectation last year...
Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Croatia
The first lines suggested promise, but things went quickly downhill. And as for those wings - there is one word that fits - No.
And...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 2 – Armenia
Srbuk hopes to get Armenia back on track after an uncharacteristic failure to qualify for the final last year, only the second time Armenia...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 1 – Albania
I'm playing catch-up on That Phil and That Mo, dear Oneuropeans, but fear not, you have not lost my Countdown this year. My musings...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 7 – Belgium
When Eurofans hear this song it won’t come as any surprise that the people that wrote for Blanche two years ago wrote this one...
Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Belgium
Eliot from Belgium is performing a song written by the guy behind 2017's 'City Lights' - and there is a certain similarity in tone....
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 6 – Belarus
ZENA (again with the caps!) has been saddled with a rotten song. It’s supposed to be a pop song with a bit of an...