12 June – I only want to think about you
Hooray! A legend's birthday! Well, we think he is anyway. It's from the time when a certain Baltic nation started to show us what...
ESC birthdays 24 Feb – Goodbye to yes, today
A fine birthday today, of a singer that was robbed last year. OK, so he wasn’t by himself, which made their song even better....
Afternoon Bollox
As you have guessed by now - I have not seen the first two rehearsals this afternoon - but I sense you will be...
Five more through in Estonia – That second Eesti laul Semi...
A second Eesti Laul semi final? - oh OK then. Last week's was good and this was of a similar standard in my opinion...
27 October – And not even time can take away the...
Do you remember the start of this century/millennium? The bug was behind us and we had a whole new one hundred/one thousand years to...
Fourth Quarter Final in Estonia – Your weekends become yours again...
Disappointingly, Last week's Quarter Final saw the lowest viewing figures of the three heats so far with only 11.1% of the audience but it...
24 December – We’re standing tall and looking up
As we know, early in this century a whole heap of countries had their first wins. Some seemingly deserved, some seemingly less so. We'll...
Goose bump-tastic…
Gosh it's far to early on a Sunday for multiple goose bump moments...
But I've just had a double helping playing rehearsal catch up here...
Eeesti has improved
But is Europe going to "get it". By that I mean are they going to want a slightly dark and broody song sung in...
30 August – Like two sailing boats in the sea
As I've mentioned before, many songs that we expect to do well, fall at the semi-final stage. We ask ourselves why. Well at least...