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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.

Bank Holiday Vault Special!!

Well it's a bank holiday in the UK and, until September 1st, The UK is all that matters!! So in recognition of the new World...

Video Vault – think of the children!

In this week's video vault we examine the curious tale of the 1996 pre-selection and the notion that kids shouldn't grow up to be...

When scoring 0 just isn’t bad enough

So we move from Portugal across the continent to Turkey, land of contrasts and a very complicated language. Back in 1987 (I know, they...

Let’s get this place back on track…. two bit whore...

Hello! After a slightly enforced hiatus due to, well, real life, Deller speaks to me this morning and says : "Do you feel like putting something...

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 – A romance language my arse

In this week's installment Phil has doubts that French is the language of love - more like the language of bleeding ears!

A velvet box? A poster? Who would send that shite?

1980 was a weird year. Europe decided that a couple of tragic twins and a singing penguin man would finish ninth. A song called...

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...

OnEurope’s 2020 Video Vault – Part 12 – grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

This week's sojourn in to the archives leaves everyone at OnEurope towers glad that they are not Siegfried and Roy (Grrrr I'll rip your...

Welcome home to the Video Vault

Now, you know it's summer when Mr Phil and Mr Nick prise open the OnEurope Eurovision Video Vault, in a doomed attempt at humour. This...