05 March 2015 Call it excessive hype and anticipation, when Australia chose its representative for the Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna this year, expectations were for a major name or […]
22 February 2015 Estonia’s Harry Connick Jr and Elisa Born ready to excel in Vienna Estonia does it again. This is the fourth Eesti Laul I’ve watched live and it […]
21 February 2015 Estonia’s national song contest is the only national final that gets me out of bed at 5am to watch. It’s not just because my favourite singer ever, Lenna Kuurmaa, […]
11 February 2015 Australia to compete in Vienna Three years ago, disgusted by the disrespect and ultra frivolity that the Eurovision Song Contest was receiving by Australia’s broadcaster, SBS, that […]
17 November 2014 Junior Eurovision was almost a throwback to senior Eurovision of old. Sixteen countries, fairly standard or traditional songs of marginal appeal, and an annoying winner. Then it […]
11 July 2014 TV Ratings – the TV executives live and die by them. If you believed the hype about Eurovision’s popularity in Australia, especially after Jessica Mauboy appeared as […]
12 May 2014 A review of the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest… …including Mr Eurovision Awards! Forget that Austria won the contest part of the Eurovision Song Contest of 2014. Forget […]
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. […]
26 April 2014 It started with a “shout-out” from the hosts in Baku in 2012, then Malmo 2013 went a step further by providing a short video “Why Australia Loves […]
So the favourite wins, the trophy can be driven home that same night, and everyone will fly into the same destination and mostly stay in the same places next year. […]
Mr Eurovision Australia 