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2017

The 62nd Eurovision Song Contest took place in Kiev in Ukraine.

In case you wonder why we use Kiev and not Kyiv, back in 2010, Reuters editor Robert Bessler responded to a reader’s query about the spelling.

“Kiev is not the Russian spelling. It is the commonly accepted English language spelling of the name,” he explained. “We are not writing in Ukrainian, we are writing in English, so we use commonly understood English names for cities – hence Munich rather than Muenchen, Cologne not Koeln, Rome not Roma, etc.”

This is love for Greece at Eurovision

Greece has picked its Eurovision song, and so the starting gun has sounded on the crazy. It's once again time for the most patriotic...

Melodifestival Semi Final 2 Results

The results of the second Semi Final of Melodifestivalen is shown below. It took place earlier this evening at the Malmö Arena in Malmö. Two are...

Monty’s Eurovision Countdown – Sweden

I Can’t Go On by Robin Bengtsson The first competitor we’ll see perform this year is Robin Bengtsson, although as he brings the same performance...

Guess who also performed in Crimea …

This afternoon, Twitter was on fire with suggestions that the Bulgarian entrant in the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest had visited Crimea - putting him in potential...

This is back in with a shout now

You know the phrase that you can't make a silk purse out of a Sow's ear? Claudia has just proved that you really really...

Moldova … Guess who’s back? Back again

Get your remixes out, get your YouTube videos pumping out, because Epic Sax Guy is BACK for Moldova! Yes, Sunstroke Project have won the Moldovan...

Australia – doing a flip flop

So the Aussies are drawn third, but perform in fourth place, because they have the same stage director as Georgia. This means he has to hot...

Desire… Fire… Liar… Tryer… Deep-fat fryer…

Now you see, love, I'm not the only one that can rhyme fire with desire in about 95 different ways. I also must remember that...

Slovenia – EMA – First semi Final Results

Slovenian broadcaster RTVSLO has kicked off its search for a song to represent the country in Kiev at the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest. Once...

Serbia – a bit out of her depth

Serbia is the first song in the second semi-final, but we’re not neatly compartmentalised for today’s order, so we’re straddling the two. This is my...