I’ve been looking forward to the new Sophie Ellis Bextor album for ages. “Catch You” was great, and “Me & My Imagination” has grown on me a lot. But I was somewhat worried it would feel really out of place in today’s pop climate.
And it does… a bit. I’m in no way saying the amazingly […]
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I first heard of Kate Nash early last year when Lily Allen posted a bulletin telling all her myspace friends to check her out. I did and didn’t really think much of it. Similarly ‘Birds’ and ‘Caroline Is A Victim’ passed me by without much interest.
Today on the show we played Kate’s new single, her […]
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Things we loved:
Slovenia. They were robbed! But we especially loved their point announcer and his special torch.
Fearne Cotton looking like an mail-order Eastern European bride. Who did her makeup?
Seeing Russ from Scooch necking champagne in a panic.
Texts from our boss after every 3 songs
Ireland deservedly coming last.
Malta RANDOMLY giving UK 12 points. And […]
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Last night we went to Euroclub which is like the official hangout for fun, a all year round Eurovision bar and a gay club stuck in 1987. Here is what we learnt:
Finland are so excited about today, they declared yesterday a national holiday!
The word on the street is that the shit but amazing […]
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We’ve just left the first dress rehearsal for the final and have now seen all the songs in the order with their stage performances. Here is what is happening
My favourite Belarus is on 3rd. This means he is buggered. He’s between two other uptempo songs and makes no impact, despite a shirt split of Uncle […]
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We went to the semi-final last night. Some points:
Despite being sold out, the arena was pretty empty.
Andorra’s Busted wanabee’s Anonymous got the biggest cheer of the night at the event but didn’t go through.
Denmark, Netherlands, Cyprus and Malta also got massive cheers and should, but didn’t get through.
The Eastern Europe voting front […]
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I am going to Eurovision in 7 hours!
Woo. Woo.
My predictions
UK will give Switzerland 12 points and Denmark 10
Belarus or Greece will win.
Serbia will come close to winning.
Scooch will score 7 points.
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