Albania picks Eurovision song for 2018
As is tradition, the first singer and song to go public for Eurovision next year comes from Albania. Even though the Austrians have revealed...
LIVE Blog: Eurovision 2017 – First semi final
Tonight at 21:00 CEST/20:00 UK/Portugal, contestants from 18 countries will compete for ten spots in the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final. You can...
19 August – A gleam of light
Don't you just love our favourite TV show for its masses of different styles? You can have good old Scandi-Schlager, followed by good old...
9 February – Celebrate the dance within
It can be a strange thing being a country's second ever participant in our favourite TV show. Especially if the first entrant did well....
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown for 2021. Part 1 of 39 –...
The OnEurope 2021 Eurovision Countdown is like that Marshall Cavendish Partworks I lusted after as a child (Robert Carrier - Carriers Kitchen, as you...
5 February – No, no, never let go
If you've ever got through your national final and represented your country at our favourite TV show, should you try again?
There have been some...
Oh Phil Phil Phil…
You've got your curmudgeonly midweek slump on again, intcha!
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As I type I've had to do a runner into the corridor, cos...
12 July – My heart looks for a station, and in...
It's a thing these days that many songs are in English, or at least partly in English. Some fans are old enough to remember...
A Live blog for Albania… Just not from us, but just...
With thanks to our chums at Eurovision Ireland whilst I go and do something less boring instead, like eat Mince pies ( I almost wrote...
LIVE BLOG – Semi Final 1 – Press rehearsal
Join us live here from 22:00 local time (8pm, UK/Portugal - 9pm Western Europe) to hear what we make of the Jury rehearsal of the...