Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 3 – Australia
Now in their fifth year of entry, Australia has an unblemished qualification record - although Jessica Mauboy fell far short of expectation last year...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 13 – Finland
After a few years using UMK as a showcase for new artists it felt inevitable last year that Finland would have to do an...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 23 – Latvia
Folk me, Latvia has had a folking dreadful run of songs for most of the past decade. Only Aminata has managed to save them...
Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Belgium
Eliot from Belgium is performing a song written by the guy behind 2017's 'City Lights' - and there is a certain similarity in tone....
Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Romania
There was much fuss when Ester Peony won the Romanian national final despite scoring low with the viewing public. But she's put all that...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 40 – Switzerland
The Swiss dropped their 'Entscheidungsshow' as a selection format this year, officially for budgetary reasons, though with only two qualifications in eight years (one...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 10 – Czech Republic
It’s taken a while, but after a painful journey of awful rock, strained ballads and a cartoonish play on minority ethnicity, the Czech Republic...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 5 – Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan had an unblemished qualification record right up until last year, when Aisel fell short with the annoyingly titled X My Heart. To be...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 7 – Belgium
Eliot continues an almost annual run of Belgian competitors drawn from one or other of the local 'Voice Of' shows, the fifth of the...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown – Part 11 – Denmark
Leonora, replete with her big chair, is the Danish entrant and we have the first of this year’s “less is more” songs. She manages...