Phil’s Eurovision Countdown – Part 4/37 – Austria
“I am a child, a child of the eighties” – no no, Marie Myriam did not sing that in 1977, but ever since I...
EBU issues (another) statement following ongoing Eurovision artist abuse
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has today issued a statement following a surge in online abuse and harassment of artists taking part in the...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown – Part 9/37 – Czech Republic
I refuse to call them Czechia, just like their athletics team. They finally seemed to get the contest last year after years in the...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown – Part 21/37 – Latvia
It’s about damn time Latvia remembered what a good song sounded like – it’s been 84 years ( That’s all the memes for now...
Eurovision Countdown 24 – Switzerland according to Mo
This and the Irish song have a lot in common. They’ve both chucked a bunch of nonsense around what is basically a conventional and...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown – Part 5/37 – Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan used to be known as the country that would pay the Swedes to get decent results and, indeed, their only win in this...
Eurovision Countdown 24 – Cyprus according to Mo
Who hasn’t woken up and felt all ooh-la-la? My money was on liar rhyming with higher and fire. Silia didn’t let me down, all...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown – Part 23/37 – Luxembourg
So, we move to Israel’s second entry this year. If you didn’t know the entire Luxembourg national final was styled and produced by Israelis...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown – Part 36/37 – Ukraine
Only a charlatan or a stupid person would still claim that Ukraine are going to score well in this contest. The reason why I...
Eurovision Countdown 24 – San Marino according to Mo
We’re going full-on rock in this year’s import to the plucky microstate of San Marino.
There are shades of Måneskin, but this has a more...