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Video Vault

The OnEurope Video Vault is a Room 101 for Eurovision. A place to hide away those guilty pleasures and outright horrors. Things you secretly love and things you openly loathe. Don’t suffer in silence. Get in touch and tell us what you want to see locked away forever.

When Sweden do things well…

... they really really do do them well. It's 1980, they put on a massive Melodifestivalen with at least 7 winners in it* and even...

Love? Well not that much it seems

So, it's the late mid-80's and you've not won since 1983.  Luxembourg botched 1984 with Sophie Carle (who could have got in here on...

If at first, you don’t succeed …

So, new year and back we go to 1992 ... You remember 1992?, no?? Well there were contests in a different century too you...

Is that barrel being scraped?

For our second dredging of Europe's weed-covered canals, we go back to a time where most of Europe - but not seemingly Norway -...

Video Vault – Almost an epiphany

For this instalment of the Video Vault we go back to a time where the Sinclair ZX spectrum was being born, Videolympics was about...

OnEurope’s Video Vault 2020 – Episode 15 – When one thing...

In this installment of the Video Vault, Phil learns that "Furries" and "Furbys" are two different things - and he probably doesn't like either...

Dear Salvador…. Can you forgive my indiscretion?

This Vault has been quite difficult to write.  Firstly cos it's an apology, and I never apologise cos it shows weakness and secondly cos...

In a Max Bygraves style

I wanna tell you a stooory... A story of sibling love, talent and ultimate failure... If you're of a Dutch persuasion, look away now!

If it’s not Trump – then who the hell is it??

You know the type of thing - You sit aimlessly around in late 1980 wondering how you're going to win the contest.  You want...

Video Vault Episode 2 – It’s all a bit weird

In this weeks Video Vault Phil takes you inside his mind, and it's a very weird place indeed!