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...
Nick “does” 2025 – Denmark
DENMARK – Hallucination – Sissal
Denmark haven’t graced a Eurovision final since Leonora sat on her high chair in 2019, and I think that’s the...
Eurovision Countdown 2025: Slovenia is a sigh
Slovenia
Klemen - How much time do we have left?
Well, the backstory lands hard. Klemen opens his promo video by revealing he wrote How Much...
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: Armenia is ‘cobbled together’
Armenia
Parg – Survivor
At the risk of sounding like a colonial-era phonetics professor: if you’re going to sing in English, at least try to sound...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 – Estonia
ESTONIA – Espresso Macchiato – Tommy Cash
There are times, dear reader where the words 'Oh DO fuck off' are entirely appropriate... and this is...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 Part 18 – Ireland
Laika Party by EMMY
A moment of disclosure here: when EMMY was in the Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix in 2021, she found herself in...
Nick “does” 2025 – Iceland
ICELAND – Roa – Vaeb
My lovely late Mum used to work at a nursery back in the 1980s. It was almost certainly completely made...
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...
Eurovision Countdown 2025: Germany is beige
GermanyAbor & Tynna – Baller
Germany continues its recent tradition of asking the continent, politely, to please ignore it. Baller is a modern-ish track—clean, slick,...