[LMBTO] Eurovision Acts 31 & 34 - Metalcore and Soft Rock Prevail...
Regular readers might remember recently that I thought that Vanja Radovanović's 'headline picture' was perhaps the best ever - I think I may need to rethink that after seeing this reaction shot of Örs...
View Article[LMBTO] Eurovision Act 32 - The "Funny Girl" Journey Continues...
The benefits of modern social media meant that Laura Rizzotto could continually interact with what became known as her 'Funny Girl Squad' - lots of Instagram pictures, FB posts and tweets flowed from...
View Article[LMBTO] A Eurovision Tidy Up - Armenia & The Netherlands finalise...
So here is a novelty - Armenia are sending a song that is 100% sung in Armenian! And it was an entry that didn't even register on my radar when I listened to all twenty acts prior to the live shows....
View Article[LMBTO] Cyprus and Finland complete their Eurovision 2018 entries...
Two nations that had chosen their artists already but still had to decide on their songs to fulfill their entry status - one 'sort of' had a NF (Finland), whereas the other finished their journey from...
View Article[LMBTO] Estonia Grabs A Eurovision Golden Goose, San Marino Fumbles
This lady deserves at least one picture without being linked to what is likely to be known as 'her thing', at least as far as Eurovision is concerned - Elina Nechayeva demonstrating that she does...
View Article[LMBTO] It Was Really Tight On Eurovision Night - Poland and Iceland...
I'm not sure that LOT Polish Airlines will accept that as a boarding pass - whose ticket would it be anyway? In yet another close run NF, the guys in the hats (so many this year, Waylon and CoCo from...
View Article[LMBTO] September and November Finally Get Their Eurovision Songs - Aisel And...
It has been 126 days since this lady was announced as the Azerbaijani artist for Eurovision and even longer for Sennek:166 days! These two nations definitely wanted to get their 'names' out there...
View Article[LMBTO] Two Former 'Idols' at Eurovision - Portugal and Australia...
Now that is one happy lady, part of a pair who became their nation's representative at their own Eurovision. It has recently been a bit of a mixed bag as to how well the hometown artist fares in this...
View Article[LMBTO] Franka & Ryan can go "Crazy""Together" at Eurovision...
Now THAT is a kickass headline picture! The stunningly beautiful Franka in a flowing Grecian dress, the statuesque focus of attention here, almost like The Statue Of Liberty - is Miss Batelić's pose...
View Article[LMBTO] The Queen of Eurovision Hosting has left us - RIP Katie Boyle...
Caterina Irene Elena Maria Imperiali di Francavilla...Lady Saunders...Katie Boyle...One and the same wonderful woman, we lost a Eurovision icon yesterday (20th March 2018). She was 91 and had packed a...
View Article[LMBTO] The Real Queen of Eurovision has left us - RIP Lys Assia...
Whilst settling down to watch the Latvian Pre Party from Riga tonight, about twenty minutes before it started, I saw that someone on Facebook had linked to a Swiss online website with a thunderbolt of...
View Article[LMBTO] The first 2018 Eurovision Pre-Party - as usual, it's Riga...
A shout out to @euroian on Twitter for having this picture on his timeline - this, in one scene, showed all the 2018 participants at the Eurovision Pre-Party Riga on Saturday 24th March (plus Philip...
View Article[LMBTO] Sweden, FYR Macedonia and their pleather Eurovision outfits...
That weird mix of plastic and leather seems (to my eye at least) to be making a comeback via the Eurovision Song Contest! Is that some sort of black straitjacket that Benjamin is wearing? Not quite...
View Article[LMBTO] The Battle of Eurovision Snow - Lithuania and Austria...
Shoes on or off? That might be one of the key decisions that the lovely Ieva Zasimauskaitė has to make in Lisbon - she swapped between flats, pumps and barefoot in Lithuania during her numerous live...
View Article[LMBTO] The Final Piece Of The Eurovision Puzzle - Bulgaria's Equinox...
Supergroups don't really exist anymore, mainly because the longevity of an artist isn't what it used to be. Bringing together artists from various places and bands was more commonplace in the...
View Article[LMBTO] The Eurovision Returnees (sort of) - Norway & Russia...
No, this isn't a throwback picture to the moment that Alexander Rybak won Melodi Grand Prix in 2009 before going onto triumph in Moscow with 'Fairytale' - this was Saturday 10th March 2018, when 'the...
View Article[LMBTO] Finally! The Last Eurovision Reviews - Georgia and Israel
There's normally seven of them but at Eurovision it appears that there will just be five, noticeably the ones without a receding hairline - perhaps someone was nice enough to keep the odd one out...
View Article[LMBTO] The Eurovision In Concert 2018 Press Event - What A Whirlwind!
From what I can remember, I am pretty sure that all the artists performing at the Eurovision In Concert 2018 proceedings were here in this picture (although some might have been sound...
View Article[LMBTO] Me & Saara Aalto at the EiC 2018 Press Event in Amsterdam...
Now here is a lady who has obviously had to take an infinite amount of selfies in her time, just to speed the process up, because she took my phone at the end of our interview, shot off three pictures...
View Article[LMBTO] Me & Ieva Zasimauskaitė at the EiC Press Event 2018...
I'm not sure that I saw that smile leave this lady's face all day in Amsterdam! After chatting with Saara Aalto, my wanderings around the press event room found me at the Lithuanian table where I had...
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