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Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 Part 10 – Denmark

Hallucination by Sissal If there’s one thing Denmark can do at Eurovision, it’s pull off a surprise win. In 2000 the Olsen Brother’s entry...

Nick “does” 2025 – Italy

ITALY - Volevo Essere Un Duro – Lucio Corsi Dear reader, I think I may have been a bit overambitious with my writing schedule this...

Nick “does” 2025 – Poland

POLAND - Gaja - Justyna Stechkowska Now, I’m not saying that I’ve been doing this for too long, but the first time I was present...

Sweden’s sauna song is no joke

They started as a Melodifestivalen punchline. Now KAJ might actually win the whole thing. If you’d said in January that Sweden’s best shot at an...

The Big 5 (and Switzerland) have their moment in the sun

Apologies for the slow updates - Eurovision are taking FOR EVER to put the videos up! Hello and thanks for refreshing like mad on a...

Slovenia Threatens Eurovision Exit: RTVSLO Tells EBU ‘Shape Up or We...

Slovenia’s national broadcaster, RTV Slovenija, has issued a stark warning to the European Broadcasting Union (EBU): unless the organisation takes concrete steps to address...

So that Semi Final Allocation in full

Again, in case you have been living under a rock for the last few hours/days today (28th January) we have the allocation draw for...

Eurovision Countdown 2025: Azerbaijan is gloriously slippy

Azerbaijan Magagama - Run with you Magagama (not, as it turns out, a Pokémon evolution) offers up a track that’s equal parts time-travelling synth nostalgia and...

Queerbaiting at Eurovision: Are We Being Played?

As Eurovision 2025 approaches, the glitter-strewn path to Basel reveals an increasingly complex relationship between what the popular press insists on calling Europe's campest...

Eurovision Countdown 2025: Portugal is warm

Portugal—so often the earnest, acoustic soul of the contest—has delivered something this year that feels neither desperate nor overwrought, which in Eurovision terms is...