Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Serbia
'Kruna' brings nothing new to the 2019 Eurovision table. It's a production-line slice of Balkan pop.
I'm not especially keen on former Barbara Dex Award-winner...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 27 – Montenegro
Montenegro is one of the least successful of Eurovision nations. In 10 attempts they’ve only twice graced the final, and never better than 13th....
Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Austria
I've tried so hard to like 'Limits', but it's proven to be a task way beyond me.
Vocally, things start out just fine, but PAENDA...
Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Latvia
When did the Latvians lose their Eurovision way? Back in their upstart days, we had rocky little numbers from Brainstorm. As recently as 2015,...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 5 – Azerbaijan
Chingiz’s sexuality is the exact embodiment of what this song is. It wants to be everything; both Middle Eastern and disco stomper, and yet...
Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Montenegro
If you do nothing else with the next 24 hours, watch this video. There's much grabbing of air and forced grinning. None of the...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 20 – Ireland
There’s an argument that Ireland has lost their former spark, from the time in the 90s where they could barely put a foot wrong...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown – Part 39 – Sweden
I walked past John Lundvik at Media City in Salford and nearly kicked over his Diet Coke. That might be the high point of...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 9 – Cyprus
Somewhere in a television studio in Nicosia, at the back end of 2018, arose a shadowy figure who fired up the projector, showed the...
Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Slovenia
When I saw Zala and Gašper perform this at the EMA, I really didn't like it. They were so intense, so young and looked...