9 May – You just rub your hair, start negotiating
In our favourite TV show, it's easy to be winners one day, tail-enders the next. Hero to zero, or vice versa. It's all good...
“Ich komme aus Tampere!”
Finland’s Eurovision queen Erika Vikman is getting the full hometown hero treatment—complete with saunas, drag queens, and sweeping views of Tampere. The city has...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 – Finland
FINLAND – Ich Komme – Erika Vikman
Well colour me slightly puffy and call me Alice. The genius that’s Erika Vikman, four years removed from...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 Part 12 – Finland
Ich Komme by Erika Vikman
I’ve seldom been as thankful for being one of the organisers and presenters of Second Cherry – a second...
Nick “does” 2025 – Finland
FINLAND – Ich Komme – Erika Vikman
When I heard that Erika was having another go at UMK, I really wasn’t expecting a subtle, understated...
Eurovision Countdown 2025: Finland is coming
FinlandErika Vikman – Ich Komme
Leave it to Finland to enter the contest with something so aggressively camp it makes Hard Rock Hallelujah seem subtle....
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....
UMK 2025 Results
International Juries and a national televote (25:75) Decided the winner here. The presenters even showed us a pie chart to explain it!!
It didnt need...
They’ve put the puppy down!
Well just when I thought Wednesday was going to be a quiet news day - not a bit of it. YLE Sent through the...
21 October – The dance floor is calling me
We often say that anyone can win the top prize in our favourite TV show. Past performance is no guide to future performance and...