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Bulgaria – Wise words from an old man?

Victoria gets three goes at this - aren't I lucky? My dad comes into the room and says: "It sounds like someone is in pain."...

Monty looks at Georgia, Albania, Portugal and Bulgaria

Goedemorgen Oneuropeans, and welcome to Day 7. A week already! It’s the final second rehearsals for the semi-finalists, and a short day today after...

Portugal – It makes me smile, that’s what music does

As you will know, I loved this song in first rehearsal and nothing I've seen in the last 20 minutes has changed my mind....

Albania – just as good as it’s always been…

After what can only be described adequately as an interminable 20 minutes from Georgia, Albania bursts onto the screen and wakes me up. Anxhela...

Georgia – is there a score lower than zero?

It's very hard to write the next phrase even when you've been at this game as long as I have. I believe the Georgian song...

Week 1 Day 6 – The OnEurope Virtual Day Trip

Evening, team! As you all know, it's part of our grand tradition at OnEurope to abandon the ship at some point in the week...

Eurovision Week 1 Day 6 Afternoon 1 – Nick’s View

So I decided to join an, umm, 'interesting' virtual tour of the area arranged by the D'Arcy De Farcey independent tourism agency this morning,...

A Spanish surprise closes the day

And our first look at the 2021 entrants draws to a close with Spain. I like this, and I like Blas. More than that...

Spain – It’s been such a long time since I offended...

Blas sings the first two stanzas of this song without music, and I am holding back saying that it improves the whole thing -...

My home land – Estonia – no UK – Finally no...

Now, I've been doing this since about the end of the Crimean Wars, and I know what rubbish UK Rehearsals sound like. There's a...