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Toto and Gigliola talk Eurovision 2012 – Part 2

At first glance this promises much. There is a song behind this (unusual for Malta) and people that actually look like they're playing instruments...

Dressed for the part

This one has gotten a bit better as well now she is wearing her stage clothes - either that, of I have been sitting...

Where are we? Oh yes, Baku on a hazy Sunday afternoon

So we're motoring through the back end of semi two now aren't we? Bosnia & Herza-give her a new dress have given me my biggest...

Host country blues?

This is a case of host country blues if ever I heard one. Azerbaijan are clearly bankrupt by hosting the contest and to me...

How Azerbaijan won Eurovision by accident

When Ell and Nikki won the Eurovision Song Contest for Azerbaijan last May there were immediate loud cries of “foul” ringing out through the...

The rest of the morning’s rehearsals Caught up!

Lithuania. Oh dear. Lithuania does sign language shocker. What on EARTH is that all about? - Walters and Thinggy got to the final, but...

Portugal & Azerbaijan – two points of the compass

Portugal just provided us with one of the great press conferences of all time. For each question the slick backed lead chap provided us...

Azerbaijan doesn’t sound like a winner to me…

It sounds weak, and limp, and lifeless and has been choreographed to within an inch of its life. Safura looks like she is trying...

Singing in the rain

What does one say about an Azeri entry at Eurovision? They're never quite content to just sing but instead like presenting their songs. So it...

Well there is supposed to be lunch but…

...We suspect there is an Azerbaijan on stage - we have seen a snatch of them in the press centre screens but that's about...