The Eurovison Song Contest was originally designed to build bridges between European nations based on the shared love of music..... These days it's a political battle where European nations, Israel, anyone who asks to join in and Andrew Lloyd Webber tactically vote to ensure that the music isn't considered but neighbouring countries all vote for each other and against any nation that has just looked at them funny. The winning country then pretends to look happy that they've won, all the while calculating whether or not they can afford to spend millions upon millions of pounds to stage the final the following year. In the past the UK has ...  Read the complete review

The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual contest held in May in Europe, its a song contest which every European country can enter, the show was first shown in 1956, it is most famous for bringing Abba to the notice of the unsuspecting world with their amazing song Waterloo. It is less well known for Daz Simpson's awful rap song which was a nadir in British participation and marked the moment we realised we should perhaps take it more seriously again. Eurovision has recently had a marked change, where it used to be an amateur competition countries now put in their best acts, last years winning entry for Russia was in fact written by Timbaland and this year an ...  Read the complete review

The Eurovision song contest is a contest held every year in europe and over 50 countries partake to try and win and bring glory to their country. It has been held for over 50 years, and this year it is held in Russia, after Russian Artist Dima Bilan won last year and brought it to Moscow. There are 2 semi finals where about 20 countries partake and the top 10 through voting will be selected to be in the final, held on the Saturday in Mid June. 5 Countries are automatically entered into the final: Germany, France, United Kingdom, Spain and the winner of the previous year which is Russia this year. At the end of the final, each country through pjhone ...  Read the complete review

It's that time of year again - the biggest musical extravaganza to be seen on television is almost upon us and some of us will spend this week familiarising ourselves with the 42 songs that will participate in a contest that stopped being about the song a long time ago. On Saturday 16th May, in Moscow, the 54th winning song will be declared, with Norway supposedly the red hot favourite to win. You can see why - it's sung by a cute 18 year old lad who was born in Belarus and features Irish style fiddles, just the sort of thing the voters seem to like - and one which covers all bases - Ireland, Scandinavia and the former USSR. The UK's entry will be ...  Read the complete review

As was once said on BBC radio 2 '30 seconds of Charpentier's Te Deum followed by three hours of Eurovision tedium." Well we love it really don't we? The Eurovision was first staged to unify Europe through music and now the annual smorgasbord of pop involves over 40 countries. I have watched it each year since 1991, however, more recently it has only been due to Terry Wogan's rather acidic commentary on it. Now he has quit acting as the BBC host I may reconsider. Graham Norton has been given the job this year so it may be worthwhile watching it to see how he does. Whatever happens I will have the odd bottle of wine on standby. The UK did very ...  Read the complete review