The science of Eurovision aka most desperate press release since the last one. Have you no shame, BBC Online? (rhetorical qn). Here – speak o revelator!! – are the ‘seven crucial elements’ to Eurovision success:
pace and rhyth[…]

Birgitta Haukdal – Open Your Heart The 2003 Eurovision song contest was notable for several reasons:
– TaTu completely fucking up the performance of their magnificent “Ne Ver Ne Bojsia”, and promptly disappearing forever.
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(it’s a lock!)[…]

I realised last night that one of the things I enjoy about Eurovision is that it seems like a museum of pop: leaving aside the more ersatz ethnic elements liberally spooned over some of the entrants, this is mostly an extraordinary collage of past an[…]

“NOTEBOOKS OUT PLAGIARISTS!”[…]

Eurovision Day 2. Nowadays the Key Facts everyone knows about the contest is that it’s enjoyed by gay people and it’s a fit-up. In more innocent times what people knew about Eurovision is that it was always won by songs with nonsense titl[…]

NO SCOOTER IN THIS PUB EITHER
frank kogan on pub rock
(the “experts” referred to may have been ME haha)[…]

I didn’t realise how much I liked Kirsty MacColl’s music until she died.
I sometimes feel sad listening to her voice, it carries weariness even in the happy songs. An anthology released earlier this year captures it well, all the heartbr[…]

It’s Eurovision time again! There are a host of blogs celebrating this, and I’m sure some of them are putting MP3s up. For the next three days, we’ll jump the bandwagon, today offering Britain’s best-ever entry:
Bardo – […]

Another Stylus singles jukebox with lashings of me, and not too many of my really lazy reviews. In my unseen comments I was horrible to the Kaiser Chiefs, nice to Hot Hot Heat, and Sleater-Kinney and I came to an understanding about thirty seconds in[…]