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Croatian Crazy talk

Mr Phil was away getting a coffee, so he left me in charge, and armed with just thirty selective seconds of footage (and a...

Greece – Same old same old

To be deathly honest, this rehearsal can be summed up in four words: "same as last time". There are some rehearsals that make you question...

Austria is excellent

Cesár now has TWO microphones. It doesn't double his output however, but we think he is testing out a hand mic rather than a...

FYR Macedonia reveals it all

Well, I believe we told the delegation on Tuesday that the dress that revealed a bit too much was somewhat revealing ... and we...

Bulgaria – It might be warm outside but …

... it's cold on the screen. As a song, it is a really good one, performed flawlessly, just like on Tuesday. The harmonies are spot...

Eestima … there is something amiss here

... and I don't know what it is. The Estonian entry has all of the ingredients of a great song. They also have a dress...

Belarus – what a mess!

So ... despite the roars of laughter in the press room on Monday when we all saw the concept for this song - if...

Israel have performed a miracle on that

The Israeli team has literally polished a turd. This really was substandard on Monday, and served to confirm all my conscious bias towards 'Toy'....

Lithuania – It’s more beautiful

Ieva and her delegation need to be applauded. They seem to have either read what most people have written, or have noticed that the...

Czech Republic – The man’s a trouper

Say what you like about Mikolas and the song, he's got balls and guts to even be on the stage at the moment. He's...