Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 – Estonia
ESTONIA – Espresso Macchiato – Tommy Cash
There are times, dear reader where the words 'Oh DO fuck off' are entirely appropriate... and this is...
Estonian party tricks
Well. The stage looks nice. There’s a theme of playing cards, with the emblems of the suits picked out as Juri, himself bespectacled and...
I’ve abandoned a warbling Sandra Oxenryd …
...but I'll rejoin her shortly.
When I was writing my previous blog, sitting comfortably in the press centre, I was joined in short order by...
Estonia’s songs have been quietly pushed out
With no warning, our chums at Estonian broadcaster ERR have previewed the semi finalists for this year's Eesti Laul. We've blatantly lifted them from...
12 June – I’ll put my voice in it
Hooray! A big birthday! And a legend's. Well, we think he is anyway. It's from the time when a certain Baltic nation started to...
An all Estonian 2nd Quarter Final – Oh its like the...
So, after the first Quarter Final last week (which gained a 12.4% viewing share in Estonia making it the 4th most popular TV Show,...
27 October – Leave the windows open wide
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...
Last night’s fitba and more of the songs
Now you may know me as the fella on this team who likes to do context. Y'know, the things that go on around town...
What does the web predict for tonight’s semi-final?
Tonight, Eurovision Song Contest fans get to settle down with the first slice of the 2018 competition. Nineteen songs will compete for ten Grand...