Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 Part 20 – Italy
Volevo Essere Un Duro by Lucio Corsi
Not gonna lie, in a Sanremo line-up I largely enjoyed this year I was not only disappointed but...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 Part 19 – Israel
New Day Will Rise by Yuval Raphael
Here we go again. I’d hoped the situation between Israel and Gaza would have been sufficiently improved...
Phil’s Eurovision countdown 2025 – Ireland
IRELAND – Laika Party – Emmy
It’s a song, yeah, about a dog that’s very definitely dead and been in space, having a party (Somehow!).
Bearing...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 – Iceland
ICELAND – Roa – Vaeb
The first time that I saw this I am reminded of this UK advert:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcsXtiN8-UY&pp=ygUUQWxpZSBpbnZhc2lvbiBraXRrYXQ%3D
Seemingly can’t sing, Look hideous and yet,...
Nick “does” 2025 – Ireland
IRELAND – Laika Party – Emmy
I suspected that Mr Phil was using my reviews as templates for his own when the featured image for...
Eurovision Countdown 2025: Latvia is sponsored by Baltic linen
LatviaTautumeitas – Bur Man Laimi
Tautumeitas—six women with a shared background in ethnomusicology and a wardrobe sponsored by Baltic linen—are here to whisper, chant and...
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...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 – Greece
GREECE –Asteromata – Klavdia
It seems that I might have alarmed you, my dear reader, about my current state of affairs by writing these from...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 – Georgia
GEORGIA – Freedom – Mariam Shengelia
I promised myself what with all of the shenanigans that are going on in this contest that I would...
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...