Selection Season Day 11: Finals, finals, everywhere!

As Kurt Calleja keeps telling us, this is the night; the night of four finals, two of which hold particular significance to the avid fan. There’s…

Selection Season Day 10: March Madness!

A busy week has/still is leading up to a ripper weekend in a faraway land I like to call EurovisionNationalFinalville. Who’d have thought that Mad March…

Selection Season Day 9: Announcements, more finals and Swedish second chances

Guess what? I’m not going to make this a post with a long, boring intro. It’s Saturday (again) and this is what’s happened and/or happening –…

Selection Season Day 8: A week of results and my top 23

Bonjour and wilkommen to Day 8 of the EBJ selection calendar. On today’s agenda is my take on the latest five competitors from around the continent…

Selection Season Day 7: results, replacements, Rafaëlla and…Melodifestivalen?

It’s the final weekend of February, folks, but that doesn’t mean we’ll be run off our feet with songs for Baku – amazingly, March is going…

Selection Season Day 6: the Irish final in review, and who could win the ESC right now…

Sometimes it’s stressful being a Eurovision fan. Right now we are in the eye of a storm of national finals and song presentations, and I know I, as a…

Selection Season Day 5: Lights, camera, action action action…

Here we are yet again at one of the most active evenings on the pre-Eurovision calendar. It’s Saturday night, and I’m doing what every self-respecting contest…