REVISED: Sixteen acts line up for Croatian Eurovision show
Croatian broadcaster HRT has revised the line-up for the 2020 Dora competition. The winner gets to travel to Rotterdam and take part in the...
1 September – you make me feel all right
The fortunes of countries come and go. You can tell some are gearing up for a win. And once they have, they revert to...
15 July – May I not wake up without you
Opening a contest. Is there anything more daunting? Well, being on second or sixteenth is no fun as those positions have never won. However,...
6 June – You’re turning water into wine
Do you notice that some areas specialise in certain styles of music? For example, our friends in Finland like their hard rock, and they've...
Croatia – Roko gets his Eurovision wings
Croatia. Or as they were christened the last time - when Jacques Houdek sang - "Fucking Croatia".
In news that suited my eyes, for the...
Croatia – just when you thought you’d seen everything
For the last twenty years (yes, seriously, we are that old) OnEuropeans have crawled from their Eurovision beds and thought: "Surely, surely Croatia would...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 8 – Croatia
Croatia is a strong contender in 2019’s Fire/Desire Cup, rhyming "having a dream, as beautiful as it is extreme" and "not as crazy as...
14 April – There are only two ways to live your...
Singer, writer. It's a well-trodden path. If you're a singer worth your salt, you may have dabbled in songwriting too. It implies that you...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 8 – Croatia
I hated Jacques Houdek’s ridiculous song in two-thousand-and-thankfully-forgotten. It was bizarre beyond belief that a broadcaster thought that this was a decent shout and...
9 April – I feel like I’ve been cured
There's a long list of countries that have never won our favourite TV show. Will one of them win this year in Tel Aviv?...