Phil’s Eurovision Countdown – Part 4/37 – Austria
Austria – Teya and Salena - Who the hell is Edgar?
When a now, thankfully, defunct twitter account (Who might be ORF) “leaked” 15 seconds...
Austria’s not quite found her charm yet
Plenty of good will for this abounding, and Zoë stole the show in London and Amsterdam. What this needs is charm, and buckets of...
Austria – It’s a NO from me!
I need to declare an interest in this – I liked this song…. note the past tense there…. Zoe now stands on a backdrop...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown – Part 5 – Austria
Cesar Sampson, Austrian through and through, has got this song, right, and he’s trying to meld two of Austria’s favourite styles of music ......
22 February – And the cockroaches they live under the tiles
Eurovision is full of wonder. I often wonder why Schlager is so popular. Or why Carola is so popular. Or even why we never...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2021 – Part 3 of 39 – Austria
For the second time in three songs I am disappointed. 'Amen' isn’t an expensive remake of this classic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gui9JWHsv-M
Instead, it's Vincent Bueno’s vehicle back to...
In a curious turn of events…
...Phil has just informed me via Social Network that Riigiametnik has been video-calling him with pictures of a local Azeri pear-flavoured beverage which looks...
Cesár Sampson pays tribute to the 80s with ‘Nobody but you’
In the 1980s, velour was hot and velvet was even hotter. For both men and women, the waistline was a little high.
New technology, synthesisers,...
29 September – It has to be the language of fantasy...
We all know that some countries have a love/hate relationship with our favourite TV show. One or two in central Europe are currently taking...
22 February – But don’t you recognise me?
If you were a singer on the Eurovision stage, would you keep your birth name, or would you adopt a stage name? A stage...