Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 Part 29/37 – Portugal
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Now, the attentive among you will have noticed that Part 30 has come before Part 29, that was done for many...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 – Part 30/37 – San Marino
San Marino - Gabry Ponte - Tutta L’Italia
Oh do I have a lot to say about this. First of all, I’m pig sick of...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 Part 30 – San Marino
Tutta L’Italia by Gabry Ponte
I called France’s Louane as arguably the biggest artist in this year’s Contest but there’s no doubting who has...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 Part 29 – Portugal
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I have a soft spot for Portugal in Eurovision and have been to the Festival da Canção a couple of times....
Eurovision Countdown 2025: San Marino is Italian too
San Marino
Gabry Ponte - Tutta L'Italia
Every year, Eurovision’s tiniest and most stubborn microstate pulls on its rhinestoned boots and gives it another go. San...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 Part 28 – Poland
GAJA by Justyna Steczkowska
I really enjoyed Poland’s 1995 entry Sama although few thought much about it after it opened the show. Singer Justyna...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 Part 27 – Norway
Lighter by Kyle Alesandro
Where PARG copied, Kyle Alessandro innovated as the first of this year’s Armoured Twinks during his performance in Norway’s Melodi...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 Part 28/37 – Poland
Poland - Justyna - GAYA
For those of you that are old enough to remember Justyna the first time round in 1995 - Welcome to...
Nick “does” 2025 – Netherlands (The)
NETHERLANDS (The) – C’est La Vie – Claude
When I was about 12, I wrote a short essay/poem about a rollercoaster for English class at...
Eurovision Countdown 2025: Portugal is warm
Portugal—so often the earnest, acoustic soul of the contest—has delivered something this year that feels neither desperate nor overwrought, which in Eurovision terms is...