Rotterdam 2020 – The Fab Five! All Songs Reviewed and Ranked
13 April 2020 This has been the eighth Fab Five post since this Eurovision blog started in late 2012, and never has it been so tough to find my favourite […]
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Rotterdam 2020 – National Final Injustices
27 March 2020 We all have them. Songs we feel were cheated at Eurovision Song Contest national finals. It doesn’t always mean they were denied a win (although, that is […]
Super Saturday Review – Finland, Sweden & Denmark
8 March 2020 Super Saturday became more like Sullen Saturday after surprise results at Finland’s UMK and Sweden’s Melodifestivalen, and a solemn scene at Denmark’s Dansk Melodi Grand Prix when […]
Super Saturday Preview – Finland, Sweden & Denmark
7 March 2020 It’s the final week of national finals for the Eurovision Song Contest of 2020 in Rotterdam, and the Nordic region features heavily with Finland’s Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu, […]
Kyiv 2017 – The Sad Five!
17 April 2017 For every national final winner, there’s often a hard luck story or a perceived injustice. Usually this is fans venting because their favourite didn’t win, or they’re […]
UMK 2017 – Finland Decides
28 January 2017 It’s a change of format in Finland, from three semi finals and a final of recent years, to one single show. The reduction in total entries is […]
Super Saturday Review – Sweden, Norway, Hungary, Finland, Slovenia & Moldova
28 February 2016 I hate mornings! Super Saturday in Europe, it’s slumber Sunday in Australia. The plan wasn’t really to get up, considering most nights I hit the sack about […]
Eurovision 2015 Vienna – Review Semi Final 1
20 May 2015 If anyone was not exhausted after the first semi final of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, then they are not human. With many of the […]
Eurovision 2015 Vienna – Ups and Downs of Audio Only
10 May 2015 It’s been a week with the CD now and several full plays. There was a period of a few years in the mid 2000s when the CD […]
The songs that sadly never made it to Vienna
31 March 2015 This year was a record year for viewing national finals for Mr Eurovision. Most years it’s one or two, while previewing the songs of one or two […]
Mr Eurovision Australia 