2013

Italy, Sweden and the United Kingdom voted in this semi-final. Draw Country Language Artist Song Place Points 01 Austria English Natália Kelly "Shine" 14 27 02 Estonia Estonian Birgit "Et uus saaks alguse" 10 52 03 Slovenia English Hannah "Straight into Love" 16 8 04 Croatia Croatian Klapa s Mora "Mižerja" 13 38 05 Denmark English Emmelie de Forest "Only Teardrops" 1 167 06 Russia English Dina Garipova "What If" 2 156 07 Ukraine English Zlata Ognevich "Gravity" 3 140 08 Netherlands English Anouk "Birds" 6 75 09 Montenegro Montenegrin Who...

...that apart from the results, all went very much as I expected. Kudos to SVT: the sound and vision were bang on the money...

Hello Europe!!! Today’s prediction post is being written at speed, because La Monty has turfed me out of the room to deal with something far...

The living-room carpet has been replaced, although it wasn't my idea and the damned thing didn't lay itself. So, after a week of not...

OK time to nail my serviette to the mast, here's what I think will qualify: Estonia Slovenia Denmark Russia Ukraine Netherlands Moldova Ireland Belgium Serbia My Kate Ryan award is going to Belarus. Monty x

I'm having an afternoon off from Eurovision. And yes, that is a euphemism. Before I have it off there's just some time to mention...

Eurovision 2013 was full of songs competing for attention, but sometimes one line is enough to decide whether an entry sounds inspired, unintentionally funny...

I'm terrible at this, but I'm going to stick my big scrawny Baltic neck out and predict that the following will qualify for round...

23.00 - It's all over now, until tomorrow night.  Good night and I hope you enjoyed this. 22.55 - The dummy results are now coming...

So we now approach the business end of our month time in Malmö.  It's been all nice and friendly so far, but now the gloves...