Nick “does” 2025 – Belgium
BELGIUM – Strobe Lights – Red Sebastian
We made it through the A's. Phew.
Now, in the early exchanges in the betting markets, Belgium were the...
Eurovision Countdown 2025: Belgium is vaguely threatening
BelgiumStrobe Lights – Red Sebastian
Belgium has sent in the fog machine early this year, accompanied by something that approximates a song if you squint...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 – Part 5/37 – Azerbaijan
AZERBAIJAN – Run With U – Mamagama
Another song that X tells me I shouldn’t like or be listening to because **checks notes** Azerbaijan. Anyway...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 – Part 4/37 – Austria
AUSTRIA – Wasted Love - JJ
“Let’s put a song into the contest that is similar to last year’s winner” never goes down well, but...
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...
Nick “does” 2025 – Azerbaijan
AZERBAIJAN – Run With U – Mamagama
Azerbaijan have quietly been in Eurovision for 17 years now. I reject this timeline and indeed reality in...
Nick “does” 2025 – Austria
AUSTRIA – Wasted Love - JJ
Dearest reader, it has been brought to my attention that my marks appear a little, shall we say, eccentric...
Eurovision Countdown 2025: Austria is ‘full-throttle’
Austria
JJ – Wasted Love
You can almost hear the pitch meeting: a fragile opening line, a trembling upper register, then bam—crank up the production, cue...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 – Part 3/37 – Australia
AUSTRALIA – Milkshake Man – Go-Jo
I wish to open this with a spoiler. This might be the shortest and possibly most sweary thing you’ll...
Nick “does” 2025 – Australia
AUSTRALIA – Milkshake Man – Go-Jo
We have a phrase in English – “not a euphemism” – which roughly equates to the French “double entendre”...