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 […]
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 […]
05 June 2015 It’s taken 2 weeks to fully decompress after an especially intense edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It was also sad, especially this year, thanks to Australia’s […]
24 May 2015 We are all heroes So it proved for Sweden’s Måns Zelmerlöw, the song about bullying that ironically triumphed over the song from the world’s most recent geopolitical bully, […]
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 […]
15 May 2015 Finally, after such a long lull since the final candidates’ songs were announced, the Eurovision Song Contest of 2015 is here. It’s been over two months, which, […]
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 […]
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 […]
21 March 2015 All songs rated It’s that time of the year when the Eurovision national final season has ended and Mr Eurovision can reveal his Fab Five for 2015. […]
09 May 2014 Even though several of my top 10 picks didn’t progress out of semi final 2, it’s difficult to fault the 10 choices of the televote and jury. […]
After the heights of semi final 1 – and right now I’m calling it the greatest semi final ever – semi final 2 was a shocker. It wasn’t so much […]