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26 July – Fiery red cars, expensive leather seats

What's this you ask? We had 1966 yesterday, so why 1966 again today? Well, why ever not. We get swamped with songs from the...

Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Finland

One thing in Darude's favour - he won't be using the fool who staged the Finnish song in 2018. The UMK performance made excellent use...

Finland in totally predictable shocker!

In (possibly) the most predictable final ever, the song that everyone thought would win, (Monsters), did indeed qualify for Lisbon by topping both the...

13 January – I can’t sing a love song anymore

It's always fun when a big name gets through to represent their country in our favourite TV show. They've conquered the proper music scene,...

15 February – You will see the jokers soon’ll be the...

There have been winners and there have been winners. From those nice safe ballads, so clucks, women dancing on boxes, people ripping clothes off....

So no Cicciolina in Finland then.. Aksel with loads of vowels...

Death to Juries, so Roy and I say. Cicciolina, which was performed car-crashingly badly live, failed to rescue Eurovision and all sensible people by...

Starting with the Finnish

I’ve started with a Mister Naef moment as my computer failed to connect to the network in the press centre. Having spent some tense...

Netherlands and Finland

See- you get 2 for the price of one with this blog - what more could you possibly ask for. Firstly, apologies to Armenia -...

Finland – Saara in a spin

It’s time for Saara Aalto, and for us to see whether she’s improved the dog’s dinner of the presentation in the Finnish UMK. She...

Finland gets ready to UMK its way to Eurovision 2017

When it comes to Eurovision, some countries shine year in, year out - think Sweden and Russia. Others tend to cling to the middle...