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Monty’s Eurovision Countdown Part 9 – Czech Republic

Omaga by Benny Cristo Not gonna lie, Benny was the one I was most looking forward to last year. Yes, in that shallow kind of...

Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2021 -Part 10 of 39 -Denmark

Checking my calendar it says 2021 and whilst the 80’s are brilliant, when you marry that with a couple of grinning goons clearly trying...

Nick’s Countdown 2021 – Czech Republic and Denmark

CZECH REPUBLIC - Benny Cristo - omaga I’m trying to avoid making too many comparisons between the 2020 entries and the 2021 entries. I’ve always...
Benny Cristo

Phil’s Eurovision Countdown – Part 9 of 39 – Czech Republic

As we don’t write these in one group setting, and we can’t anyway with Covid, we don’t know what each of us has written,...

Nick’s Countdown 2021 – Croatia and Cyprus

CROATIA Croatia have been treading water in this contest in recent years. They’ve found the unhappy knack of offering up perfectly solid, perfectly competent little...

Monty’s Eurovision Countdown Part 8 – Cyprus

El Diablo by Elena Tsagrinou Let’s hope Elena Tsagrinou is still around to perform this by May and hasn’t been swallowed into the depths of...

Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2021 – Part 8 of 39 – Cyprus

So, in a year when returning artistes are en vogue, recurring song themes are also in around Europe. The island of Aphrodite has gone...

Nick’s Countdown – Belgium and Bulgaria

BELGIUM There’s a very specific category of artist that I have a particular problem with in this contest, and Hooverphonic is pretty much the entirety...

Monty’s Eurovision Countdown Part 7 – Croatia

Tick Tock by Albina Croatia opted to continue with its revival of the Dora, rather than carry their 2020 entrant into 2021. It delivered an...

Nick’s Countdown – Austria and Azerbaijan

AUSTRIA I feel like I’m getting to that time of life where every so often a question gets asked that punches me repeatedly in the...