Cav's Place

Significant changes to the Eurovision voting system were recently announced and they’re quite a mixed bag. On the one hand, separating televoting and jury scores was something that had to happen ever since it became a rule to have both in each country, and a format that only reveals the winner at the very end […]

In the previous post from this series I was saying I was planning to write another by the end of the year and wondering whether I’ll actually manage it. And today is the end of the year, so this is cutting it as close as it can be, but let me see if I’ll throw […]

Last night, I actually finished adding countries alongside the names in the list I keep of bands that catch my attention at some point and I’d like to look into more someday. Also added former names where there had been changes and I found this information, and notes to mention that in a few cases […]

Overall, it was a pretty good edition, with few poor or poorly performed entries. None truly stood out, however, and I can’t say which deserved to win more, or even which I’d have actually wanted to win, due to reasons I’ll explain a little more below, when I’ll go through my top picks. There were […]

Overall, there have been better editions, but I wonder whether I’m not actually saying this because I’m comparing all other songs to the winner, or in fact to the top two. After all, this edition featured two songs I got completely hooked on, one of them being, at least in my opinion, the best that […]