Episode two now available for streaming/downloading. It includes an answer to Udo's Euroquery. Hope you like it. Jame

Please leave any of your Euroqueries for a forthcoming edition of Whoops Podovic in this bit of Gossip at Dot's.

Whoops Podovic is 20 minutes of just the sort of stuff you'd expect from one of the Eurovision webworld's least visted sites - and in its first episode you can enjoy (or endure): * The latest Eurovision headlines, including a world-first performance from Alexander...

In the first edition of Eurolinks on Whoops Podovic, we asked you: What linked: The Dutch entry of 1998, the Croatian entry of 1993 and the Maltese entry of 1971? The Dutch entry of 1979, the Swedish entry of 2005 and the Norwegian entry of 1997? and T...

And after some frankly bonkers voting by the regional juries, the public decided on this Jive Bunny remix of Nessan Dorma for Moscow .. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swPY8P1VGzM She's got a good pair of lungs on her, but I feel that we need to have a fan vote...

Am I being a complete utter I.T. remmie or is there something wrong with the Boom Bang a Blog? I haven't been able to open up anything from Finland onwards but can still open everything before that! Has anyone else had problems?

SPAIN - I was dreading another pile of ordure following last year’s Spanish entry. But for once their new system has come up with quite a little cracker of a song. I somehow doubt it will be troubling the top scorers in the contest, but I like it and thatR...

ESTONIA - Finally Estonia comes out of the shadows of increasingly dreadful songs over the past few years. This is excellent! I love the sound of Estonian and for me this is one of this year’s highlights. Go Estonia! FINLAND - Yay! At last, a really fant...

POLAND - Poland were shaping up to become one of my all-time favourite ESC countries, but they’ve taken a big step back with this one. This is considerably less than awesome and is the sort of song you actually forget whilst listening to it. Also, she’...

MACEDONIA - Whatever I am, I am NOT a rock fan. So why do I find that I rather like this song? There is some semblance of a tune with a strong chorus, interesting bridge and an unpretentious performance. In fact it is everything that monstrosity ‘Rum Dum Dum...

HUNGARY - I just knew as soon as I heard the title and saw a still from the video that I was going to love this. And I wasn’t disappointed. This is just so magnificently camp and danceable that I have difficulty getting the tune out of my head. Zoli reminds...

BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA - The whole premise of this song seems to be “In three minutes time the horror will end and you can stop grinding your teeth and breathe a sigh of relief that it’s over.” That just about sums it up. BULGARIA - This is the sort...

I usually post my annual review on another website MB but it tends to meet with with a response that is at best, indifference, or at the worst, sneers of something on the lines of "You clearly hate Eurovsion", which as you all know just ain't so. So I've done this i...

From William Hill ... Norway 6/4 Greece 6/1 Turkey 7/1 Azerbaijan 14/1 Sweden 14/1 Malta 16/1 Bosnia Herzogovina 25/1 United Kingdom 25/1 Estonia 25/1 Finland 33/1 Iceland 33/1 Montenegro 33/1 France 33/1 Spain 33/1 Russia 4...

I am not a happy Irishman. Ireland got drawn at the blasted number 2 slot in the Semis. Cunt on it.

Has anybody else seen a picture of this year’s set yet? Here’s a link for those who haven’t: http://www.eurovision.tv/img/upload/news/2009/stageESC2009.png I think it looks rather spectacular; a vast improvement on the rather weak offerings of...

We had a smashing time in Liverpool yesterday, one of the best turn-outs for a while - and the night went on into the wee small hours for some of us. Thanks to the jukebox in the Lisbon having every single UK Top 40 hit from time immemorial stored on its hard-driv...

Have spent this evening hanging out my laundry. It's all go here, I'll tell you that for nowt. And I'm listening to most of the songs submittted so far. In between shirts, pants and socks it seems to me that Eastern Europe has got a bit complacent in that all...

I have become completely obsessed with Alexander Rybak's hopeful "Fairytale" - can't tell you why, is it the overstated dancers or the understated backing singers? No idea ... I just know that if Norway don't pick this then I will be distraught.. http://www.youtub...

Tonight's shows (times are GMT) 19.10 CROATIA (Final) 19.15 LATVIA (Final) 19.15 Sweden (Semi-final) 21.25 PORTUGAL (Final) 21.30 Spain (Semi-final) 23.00 Spain (Final Of course I will miss every bally one of them as I'm working, but I'm...