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[LMBTO] Me & Vanja Radovanović at the EiC 2018 Press Event...
Every Eurovision, there is at least one artist who becomes the unexpected star of interviews, someone who initially appears to be quiet and unassuming before the press season really kicks in but then...
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[LMBTO] Me & Eye Cue at the Eurovision In Concert 2018 press event...
Sometimes having someone else take a picture of you and an act gives a far nicer picture - thank you to Russell Davies, one of the people behind the excellent London Eurovision Party and also part of...
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[LMBTO] Me & Stee from Zibbz at the EiC 2018 press event...
Just Stee and me - where was CoCo to complete the full line-up of Zibbz, I hear you all cry? That's what I wanted to know after waiting patiently at their allotted table next to Netta at the start of...
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[LMBTO] Me, Gromee & Lukas Meijer at the EiC 2018 Press Event...
From one set of hat connoisseurs to another - my next interviewees were these two guys, Lukas Meijer from Sweden on the left who will be assisting the guy on the right, DJ Gromee from Poland, with the...
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[LMBTO] Me and Ari Ólafsson at the Eurovision in Concert press event...
Now the more observant of you will have spotted immediately that, although this is a selfie of myself with the handsome and smiley Ari Ólafsson of Iceland and therefore relevant to this article and...
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[LMBTO] Me & Laura Rizzotto at the Eurovision In Concert Press Event...
I will admit it from the start, this was THE interview that I have wanted to do this entire Eurovision season. You will have seen throughout my blog that Latvia have been the nation that I have...
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[LMBTO] Just a fan this year - The London Eurovision Party 2018...
Another Eurovision season, another London Eurovision Party. My third in fact, after a great introduction to the event in 2016 and then last year with my first as a VIP. So what was the 2018 edition...
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[LMBTO] The Melkweg Gets 'Eurovision Past' in 2018 - Amsterdam Calling
I've been sort of busy this year, what with my traditional trip to London to watch the London Eurovision Party in the first week of April - I also included a trip to Amsterdam during the second week!...
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[LMBTO] Their Tenth, My First - Eurovision In Concert 2018...
We have reached the third part of my Amsterdam mini-break - after Amsterdam Calling and attending a very successful press event, Saturday evening saw me watching the main reason for me being in The...
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[LMBTO] Eurovision 2018 - It Is Almost Here!
2018 will be different for me as far as the Eurovision fortnight is concerned - for a start, I will actually be in Lisbon, able to go to all the shows, Jury and Televised. I will be there from Sunday...
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[LMBTO] My Personal Pre-Eurovision Hopes for Semi Final 1...
No point in beating around the bush with these summary tables - here are my favourite songs from SF1. As I have mentioned before, you will have seen me reviewing these entries as I have been going...
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[LMBTO] My Personal Pre-Eurovision Hopes for Semi Final 2...
There you go - my prefered top ten for SF2 - you'll find out in my last post before flying out to Lisbon that songs 8, 9 and 10 here don't even make my overall top twenty, that being the topsy turvy...
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[LMBTO] What My Dream Finish For Eurovision 2018 Would Be...
My Top Ten for 2018Those of you who keep track of things will look at this and think that it looks very similar to my SF1 rankings and will be trying to work out who from SF2 is there. I'll give you a...
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[LMBTO] My First Eurovision Live - Last Thing First...
Early Saturday morning, 12th May 2018. Drinking in the Incognito Club in Lisbon, I noticed the waving Maneki-neko behind the bar in amongst the spirits on the shelf. Having just been to the Jury...
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[LMBTO] My First Eurovision Live - The Beginning (Sunday 6th)...
A picture from my Yellow Boat Tour in Lisbon - MAAT, Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology. This was the closest I got to it as I had no accreditation in Lisbon, the only way that you could get...
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[LMBTO] Eurovision 2019, the UK and JOWST...
JOWST (Joakim With Steen) - we all know this guy when he helped take Norway to 10th place in Kyiv with Aleksander Walmann, highlighting the 'Law of Jante' and the use of an Ableton Push during "Grab...
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[LMBTO] My First Eurovision Live - SF1 (7 & 8th May)...
Guess where I was on day 2 of my introduction to the world of live Eurovision? We (me and Ellen) were going for the 'tourist during the day, Eurovision in the evening' mode for our time in Lisbon...
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[LMBTO] My First Eurovision Live - SF2 (9th & 10th May)...
So we moved onto the next two nights of my time in Lisbon - Jury and public SF2. Now they were confiscating national flags on the door still at this stage (Wednesday and Thursday) and it would have...
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[LMBTO] My First Eurovision Live - Final (11th & 12th May)...
The pinnacle of my time in Lisbon...The Jury and Televised Final at the Altice Arena?orGetting to meet my favourite 2018 artist for the second time?The first, I knew that I was going to experience....
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[LMBTO] My First Eurovision Live - Afterwards (13th/14th/15th May)...
And so the end was here...I suspect that this is a common sight for those fans whose nation hosts Eurovision - the morning after the night before and Eurovillage is already being broken down. All...
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