EUROVISION APOCALYPSE

The Swiss open application process has up to now attracted something like 175 entrants, and they are for the most part pretty amateurish ...

Oh my life. When I first heard that Uncle Ralph Siegal was writing a new song for lovely nan Lys Assia with a view to representing Switzer...

Remember the dour situationist choir who warbled out a slightly drunken hymn about helping strangers in last year’s preliminaries – no, p...

It's September 12th. A scant four months since we all packed up our souvenir oil paperweights and staggered home from the last Euro...

Think you've seen Georgian Jocker Anri Jokhadze somewhere before? Ladies and gentlemen, let me tweak your memories and reintroduce you t...

If you listen really, really closely, that dull squeaky sound you can hear is a turd being polished... Oh my San Marino... what have you d...

Although most of the attention in the Slovenian final went on the two songs in the superfinal, the Prusnik twins also had another couple of ...

So then, Engelbert's song for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest has finally been revealed. We were torn whether it would be a Cash/Jones...

Erm San Marino? Did you read the section in the rule book about songs containing brand names? (Or did they sneakily annul that one this yea...

One if my favourite things about the Melodifestivalen is that every now and again, something so intrinsically Swedish pops up that it leave...

As sophisticated a nation as Russia undoubtedly is, a limp popera tune about an 18th century castrato sung by a gaggle of pregnant goths an...

I'm not saying Greece are skint or owt, but they held their national final under the escalators in a shopping mall. For some reason M...

Moldova's selection is always packed with plucky triers who keep entering year after year in the hope that one day it might be their tu...

Three and three quarter hours it took to choose this, and as always, the result felt a little bit fishy at the end. Still, pasha's got ...

The build up to Loreen's eventual coronation was enormous, causing a virtual civil war among the rank and file Eurovision fan. You eith...