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LIVE BLOG – Semi Final 1 – First dress rehearsal

Join us live here from 16:00 local time (2pm, UK/Portugal - 3pm Western Europe) to hear what we make of the first dress rehearsal...

Day Six begins with Armenia…. worryingly

It's a very good place to start. The start of the song has lots of camera cuts - indeed death by a thousand cuts, no...

Armenian amazeballs

My first rehearsal to blog this year: Armenia is AMAZEBALLS! First rehearsal of the day and Artsvik’s performance is stunning! It’s very simple, her...

Armenia – I may have been doing something else.

The first time I heard this today I said "Who is this?" - Maybe I wasn't paying attention, maybe they didn't engage me, maybe...

Eurovision Countdown 2017 – Part 4

It’s time for part four of our 2017 Eurovision Song Contest preview party. ‘The one where they finished talking about the first semi-final’ in...

Monty’s Eurovision Countdown – Armenia

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Yw6LdDo7HxA Fly With Me by Artsvik They may have kept us hanging on to be the last country to show its hand this year, but the...

Artsvik kicks off Eurovision #CelebrateDiversityChallenge

Clever old Artsvik. While lesser stars are busy lip-synching on Saturday evening telly, she's found a way to create something genuinely interesting involving those...

Russian media suggests Ukraine may clip Armenian Eurovision wings

With news just out that Ukrainian authorities have taken a hard line on a Eurovision contestant who crossed illegally into Crimea, several Russian news...

Armenia – last by no means least

With national final season over, Saturdays feel empty, so let's give thanks to the Armenians who kept their song back to this week. Artsvik waited...

Armenia picks Artsvik for 2017 Eurovision

While the rest of us have been busy maxing out our cards on Christmas tat, Armenian telly viewers solved that vexing question. Who to...