Category: Thoughts and Musings

Countdown to Eurovision 2022: #37 – Ukraine

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#37 – Ukraine “Stefania” Kalush Orchestra Songwriters: Ivan Klimenko, Oleh Psiuk, Tymofii Muzychuk, Vitaii Duzhyk, Ihor Didenchuk The Kirkham Report welcomes you to my coverage of the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest!  From April 3 to the end of the contest on May 14, I’ll be here with all the latest ESC news and info, and of course, that means I’m also bringing you all the info on each song this year ranked in order of my personal preference from bottom to top. I’ll give the reasons for my personal rankings, and some background info on the song, artist, songwriters, and such. 

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Countdown to Eurovision 2022: #38 – San Marino

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#38 – San Marino “Stripper“ Achille Lauro Songwriters: Daniele Dezi, Daniele Mungai, Davide Petrella, Federico De Marinis, Francesco Viscovo, Gregorio Calculli, Lauro De Marinis, Marco Lanciotti, Matteo Ciceroni, Mattia Cutolo, Simon Pietro Manzari The Kirkham Report welcomes you to my coverage of the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest!  From April 3 to the end of the contest on May 14, I’ll be here with all the latest ESC news and info, and of course, that means I’m also bringing you all the info on each song this year ranked in order of my personal preference from bottom to top. I’ll give the

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Countdown to Eurovision 2022: #39 – Serbia

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#39  Serbia “In corpore sano“ Konstrakta Songwriters: Ana Đurić, Milovan Bošković The Kirkham Report welcomes you to my coverage of the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest!  From April 3 to the end of the contest on May 14, I’ll be here with all the latest ESC news and info, and of course, that means I’m also bringing you all the info on each song this year ranked in order of my personal preference from bottom to top. I’ll give the reasons for my personal rankings, and some background info on the song, artist, songwriters, and such.  Again, these are MY opinions, and

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Countdown to Eurovision 2022: #40 – Portugal

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#40 Portugal “Saudade, saudade” Maro Songwriters: Mariana Secca, John Blanda The Kirkham Report welcomes you to my coverage of the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest!  From April 3 to the end of the contest on May 14, I’ll be here with all the latest ESC news and info, and of course, that means I’m also bringing you all the info on each song this year ranked in order of my personal preference from bottom to top. I’ll give the reasons for my personal rankings, and some background info on the song, artist, songwriters, and such.  Again, these are MY opinions, and I

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American Song Contest – Week Three

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The American Song Contest continues tonight! WOO HOO! The US’ officially licensed Eurovision spinoff continues with twelve more performances tonight, and you can bet we’ll be there watching! Week Three’s songs have been released – here’s the playlist! Don’t forget, TKR will be presenting a YouTube livestream show, “The Kirkham Report Guide to American Song Contest – After The Songs!” every week directly following each East Coast airing of ASC, starting at 10:10 PM ET/7:10 PM PT – I will be going over my impressions of the songs, performances, staging, and more, and I’ll be doing my best to interact

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Countdown to Eurovision 2022: The Basics!

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GREETINGS PEOPLES!  It’s that time of year again! The 2022 Eurovision Song Contest Countdown starts NOW! Because I got a little bit later start than usual, I will be scattering some stuff around, doing one song most days but doing two or possibly three songs on other days, just so we get done in time for the semi-finals beginning May 10th! 40 songs to be ranked, 40 artists to spotlight, plus news and other ESC related specials – all coming between now and the official broadcasts beginning with the first semifinal on May 10, followed by the second semifinal on

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BREAKING NEWS: The participants in the American Song Contest have been revealed!

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I’ll have a full run down later, but for now, as released about 1 hour ago, here’s the complete list of each state/territory and their performers for the first (hopefully annual) American Song Contest, premiering March 21 on NBC! According to the Wikipedia article, the songs will not be announced until they are performed on the show, and will be released as each week’s show goes forward. Atlantic Records is the shows’ industry partner and will release the songs accordingly. As announced a couple weeks ago, Kelly Clarkson and Snoop Dogg have been named hosts of the ASC, which, in

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Out with the old, in with the new…HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

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Hey all, I’m so sorry things just kinda went dark here in mid-September. I didn’t even do my annual Junior Eurovision coverage because of a bunch of issues in real life, I am so sorry about that. Things are finally settling down, and I’m able to get stock of things. However, it is the end of the year, and I will be starting the new year with a BANG! In addition to a slightly redesigned site logo, which made it’s debut a few weeks ago, I have also added TKR Video Central, the TKR YouTube channel, to the sidebar courtesy

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“Shop Safe” act could end up utterly destroying the online reselling community – Speak up NOW!

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RED ALERT! CALL TO ACTION! If you are part of the online reseller community, or regularly make purchases online from merchants in the Discogs Marketplace (or ANY other platform that specializes in reselling), it’s time to MOBILIZE! And you CANNOT afford to take this lightly! A new bill sponsored by Rep. Gerald Nadler (D-NY), called the “Shop Safe” act, could and according to most experts on the subject WILL destroy the online sellers community as we all now know it. It’s long and confusing in places, but it focuses on burden of proof for not selling “counterfeit mark” goods, and

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VIDEO: Russia’s Little Big is back with Netta in tow – “Moustache”

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Satirical Russian electropop band Little Big, who wowed 2020 cancelled Eurovision fans with their hilarious across the board smash “Uno“, are back, and they’ve teamed up with Israel’s 2018 ESC winner Netta for their latest ditty! “Moustache” premiered around the world earlier  this week, and the song is good, but the video is HILARIOUS as always. Set in a world where all women have moustaches, apparently, it’s “Baywatch” meets “Law and Order” as the intrepid team of lifeguards try to discern who shaved the moustache off the winner of the beachside Miss Moustache contest…NO! I’m NOT making this shit up…It’s

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