An accordion never fails to entice you out of hiding.

I feel like there's two separate songs happening here.

Is this an entry or another interval act?

I love her.

Interval act - last two entries tonight are blokes.

I had FiK playing in the background and was stopped in my tracks by the chirpiness of the song in comparison to the rest. I would blame Jamala for the depth of dirgeness but Albania has plenty previous.

Did they find him busking outside the venue?

A poor, poor, poor man's "Use Somebody".

Seeing as Armenia is Christmas Eve I assume we will be watching it drunk?!

This needs Georgia's lighting fit from Globen.

Bit overdressed for a group of rockers. Have they just had a wedding gig?

The pensioners will have a heart attack.

Last song... thought I was going to hate it... but I actually quite liked it.

Finally, something I can tolerate.

*whispers* I kind of liked that one!

And that's it until tomorrow night.

As long as Macka makes it I'll be happy enough.

The FiK theme tune always promises more than it delivers.

My choices tonight:

1 Crazy cat man in song 10
2 The FiK theme tune



3 The rest

I liked 1, 5, 7, 8, & 12...

although I think Edea or Neki (or should I say his backing singer/wailer) were my faves...

Flaka
Jessica
Edea
The operatic backing singer
The modern guy
The novelty guy

Those were passable for me. It's all about what Lindita is bringing tomorrow though! <3

Just trying to listen to the Maltese lot but I'm stuck on Brooke's Unstoppable! Jeez that sounds good ( might be because of 2 hours of FiK)

I just feel that both Brooke and Maxine are back with a weaker version of the same style of song.

I mean, they're still good, just not as good...

Loving Breathlessly – Claudia Faniello. Very cinematic

Omg - Zeljko Joksimovic is playing in London in March!

If only I hadn't used every penny I've got on Eurovision events already 😢

Malta favs:

1. Brooke - Winner.
2. Jade Vella - This banger goes a little way to make up for no Jessika or Christabelle! <3
3. Maxine Pace - This is much better than the kitschy cheese she tried last year.
4. Cherton Caruana
5. Miriana Conte
6. Janice Mangion - I just like hearing a bit of Maltese.
7. Rhiannon Micallef - I'd like this a lot more without the Raquel style manglish slurring.

Although FiK is always awful, I think Albania are one of my favourite countries

So, so underrated...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP2OECgTA5k

Malta needs more listens although I am liking Claudia's song.

If Miriana Conte was hoping to have this year's "Cool Me Down", sadly she's missed the target somewhat.

I wonder if Janice Mangion has an advantage with the native language song? And if they were to send it would they then translate it to English?

Jem Casper would be proud of you.