SOA 2025

It's that time again!!! Six episodes of us trying to make sense of Eurovision 2025

We roll back the clock to this time last year and try to pick up the pieces - yes it's been a year but yes IT STILL HURTS!!!! In the intro, we look at some of the tropes and memes we have to look forward to as well as some of the underlying themes this year's bunch seem to subscribe to and which countries are in our bad books... We review *most* of this year's songs and give them a score from Parasite to Meteorite!

The winner of each podcast will go through to the 'Champions of Champions'  round to see what our favourite of the year is AND if we really think it has any chance of winning! (almost certainly not)

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EPISODE ONE: HOLDEN'S CAULDRON

Azerbaijan, Belgium, Estonia, Poland & Switzerland 

Marmite

Those buildings looked frankly dirty

Whatever they are dancing to - isn't that song

No need for a violin

"That's what we do well"

EPISODE TWO: SWEEP FOR ESC 2026

Armenia, Finland, Iceland, Italy, Latvia & Norway

"Swashbuckle" graphics

A fan of Blue Peter

Enya... on drugs

Shoving fags in his face

A niche to carve out

The Quantum Leap Soundtrack 

EPISODE THREE: AN EXPLANATION OF URINAL CAKES

Austria, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Sweden & United Kingdom

A till from the Grace Brothers

They can no longer afford trousers

Is there a culture of Panto...?

Dear Finland - your problem

Do Polish people want to watch things about Henry VIII?

Normal Collier processing

EPISODE FOUR: DANCERS AND CYCLISTS CAN'T SING

Cyprus, Greece, Germany, Luxembourg, Portugal & Slovenia

Ammonite contempowaft
Greater than the sum of its parts
If Duncan Lawrence could write a song
Clean Bandit from Temu
It doesn’t have a leg to stand on… unfortunately
“Three riddles have I !”

EPISODE FIVE: THE YEAR OF THE PLINTH

Albania, France, Lithuania, Malta, Netherlands & Serbia

He does all the film voiceovers
It's good - but it's not right
Under the auspices of Dr Evil
When are Liechtenstein doing Eurovision?
This was everything from Novelty Island - except for Graham Lister
A rollover vote...?

EPISODE SIX: MONOGRAMMED COMMODE

Australia, Ireland, Montenegro, San Marino, Spain & Ukraine

Not even Blümchen...

A performance they believe in

Just wish it went somewhere

Never knew Jimbo and the Jet Set were so popular

It *should* be a shoo-in

Not serving subtlety

In this final show, once we have our final show winner, we look at all six heat winners and try to decide who is our "champion of champions" who surely - almost definitely - will not be winning in Eurovision this year. What we tend to like and what Europe tends to like is becoming more and more mutually exclusive.

We hope you have enjoyed this Eurovision specials. We will be back bright-eyed and bushy tailed with the regular bi-monthly ALBUMBLE shows in June by reviewing Ann's choice of "Headquarters" by The Monkees ! 

Why not explore as the rest of the ALBUMBLE back catalogue while you wait...? Search for ALBUMBLE on your podcast player of choice including Spotify, YouTube, Amazon, Apple and many many more which there are links to via the main page

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