Category Archives: Eurovision Song Contest Reviews

As the illustrious boys from Eden once enthusiastically shouted out: Happy Birthday to you – Dreams will come true – If we party and dance till morning – May the years pass – With fun, happiness and joy – Always. Quite fitting to celebrate Lady Eurovision’s 50th birthday and a joyous occasion it is. MayContinue reading “Eurovision Review – 2005: What’s another year?”

With so many new countries joining in the past decade we’re getting to know a Europe outside… well, Dublin basically! Ironically enough Turkey’s not one of those new countries as it’s been waiting for a victory ever since 1975! And so it happens we’re putting a toe in Asian waters as we’re travelling to IstanbulContinue reading “Eurovision Review – 2004: The Huns are coming!”

Your guess is as good as mine really but we’ll soon learn the language of music transcends any other language so I figured the same could be applied to titles of blogposts. We’re in Riga for the 48th edition of our beloved Contest and after two rather disastrous editions we’re in desperate need of oneContinue reading “Eurovision Review – 2003: Léala, léala, sorimana soléo”

No, I really don’t wanna! This is the post I’ve been dreading to write since the day I started doing my reviews as this is the absolute worst edition for me – and it’s not about not wanting to give out bad ratings or comments, as should’ve been clear by now, but I just can’tContinue reading “Eurovision Review – 2002: I don’t wanna!”

That’s what DR must have thought when they decided to go for Parken Stadium as the location for the 2001 edition of the Contest. Quite the remarkable decision really as it had so much impact on everything and my guess would be the Danes realised they bit off more than they could chew a bitContinue reading “Eurovision Review – 2001: Mine is bigger than yours”

As the little Swedish Elf said in the fantastic opening sequence – the best we’ve ever gotten, certainly better than the year before and a fantastic way to kick off the new millennium. Who knew Eurovision would survive beyond Y2K!

After two splendid editions and the fact that the orchestra was put out with the garbage cans it was to be feared the ’99 edition would turn out to be a weak one – Johnny Logan would refer to the fact that a studio backing track would be used and only the vocals had toContinue reading “Eurovision Review – 1999: What the hell, Israel?”

Ah, 1998! I’ve watched this one over and over again, probably more than any other edition and it is without a shadow of a doubt my absolute favourite Contest ever. It becomes even more iconic when you realise this is the last one in which one of those key Eurovision elements makes an appearance –Continue reading “Eurovision Review – 1998: Bip bip bip, orchestra RIP”

After the dark ’96 edition and a slightly out-of-place winner things needed to be shaken up a little and who better to lighten things up than the, for obvious reasons, experts from the Irish television? Pop music was at a high, with the Spice Girls at the top of their game, and RTE made someContinue reading “Eurovision Review – 1997: Girl Power!”

As host Morten Harket so cleverly puts it in his fantastic opening song, the only one to give Viktor Lazlo a run for her money, and it can be interpreted in Eurovision context as well as it is a difficult time for the Contest – never has the appeal been less interesting, never has theContinue reading “Eurovision Review – 1996: A dim lit path ahead”