Basel 2025: Semi Final 1 Review
14 May 2025 A stunning stage design, vastly improved sound quality, and a weak set of entries. They were the three key points of note from the first semi final […]
14 May 2025 A stunning stage design, vastly improved sound quality, and a weak set of entries. They were the three key points of note from the first semi final […]
21 May 2021 In what could be the greatest Eurovision semi final ever, 17 songs dazzled the stage in Rotterdam to set up an intriguing grand final for the 2021 […]
17 May 2020 It should have been the grand final of the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam. Instead it was Eurovision: Shine A Light – a tribute to the […]
15 May 2019 A glorious stage, superb graphics, a mostly dreary selection of songs and an obvious 10 finalists. That’s the summary of the first semi final of the Eurovision […]
12 November 2017 National finals for the Eurovision Song Contest is often more about the losers than winners. Each year there will be somewhere throughout Europe, at least one song, […]
1 November 2015 How do you decide your top 10 Eurovision songs of all time? With excruciating difficulty, that’s how. It wasn’t so much about finding a group of “best ever” […]
22 May 2015 In contrast to the amazing first semi final of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, the second one was positively drab. After the crowd chorus of “Good Morning […]
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, […]
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 […]
07 May 2013 When Eurovision executive producer Jon Ola Sand tweeted several weeks ago that there was a “high level of music quality” this year, I chuckled. The songs seemed mostly […]