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Why Your Favourite Song Isn’t Going To Win Eurovision – 2024...

So, seeing as everybody has boycotted this year’s Eurovision this annual feature of ours is completely immaterial this time round. Wait! What? Oh heck,...

Phil’s Eurovision Countdown – Part 26/37 – Netherlands, The

This is everything you think it is, and yet nothing like you think it is. At first look, this is the classic Marmite song, a...

Eurovision Countdown 24 – Netherlands according to Mo

The return of a televoting-only rule for the semi-finals has inevitably meant the return of what we used to call ‘joke entries’. The sort...

Phil’s Eurovision Countdown – Part 25/37 – Moldova

One of my colleagues and esteemed writing team member asked the question “ Have we all been sleeping on Moldova?” earlier this week and...

Eurovision Countdown 24 – Moldova according to Mo

Returning performers are thin on the ground this year, so all power to Natalia for giving Eurovision another go. This doesn’t feel like her finest...

Phil’s Eurovision Countdown – Part 24/37 – Malta

Malta seem to have gone down a rabbit hole of entering poor song after poor song in recent years – albeit with the odd...

Eurovision Countdown 24 – Malta according to Mo

I’ve not heard Sarah live, but based on the video, she has a huge voice, one that tends to be tossed to one side...

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...

Eurovision Countdown 24 – Luxembourg according to Mo

They’ve been gone too long – perhaps too long, as this return is no tour de force. It’s like someone took a bunch of recent...

Phil’s Eurovision Countdown – Part 22/37 – Lithuania

Any song that beats The Roop to their coronation in Lithuania must be decent, yeah?.. Yeah?! Well, Silvester seems to have stolen *his* introduction from...