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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.”

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...
Eurovision hosts 2017

LIVE Blog: Eurovision 2017 – First semi final

Tonight at 21:00 CEST/20:00 UK/Portugal, contestants from 18 countries will compete for ten spots in the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final.  You can...

Fancy beating Elina Born?

It seems that Estonia has gone for the big guns when it comes to this year's Eesti Laul. Broadcaster ERR attracted a record number...

Two in a row? Probably not this time

The official Eurovision Song Contest website notes that there is always 'particular interest' in the home entry. Cynics might suggest this is where we...

Monty’s Eurovision Countdown – Macedonia (FYR of)

Dance Alone by Jana Burčeska Every now and then a song comes along which completely bucks the trend of history for the country it represents....

Monty’s Eurovision Countdown – Israel

I Feel Alive by Imri Ziv Israel has experienced a revival of fortunes over the past couple of years at Eurovision. I’m still not quite...

Latvia – How on earth did we miss a Supernova??!

Firstly, I need to make my deepest apologies to all Latvians everywhere, as a site we appear to have forgotten your fine selection with...

Sweden – on with the show

Good morning one and all and welcome to our coverage of the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest, live (or on a time delay) from Kiev. The...

Oh Albania, you rarely disappoint…. *

So, we're FiKing at it again. Will your Christmas ever be the same again? - probably not because once you have found one Albanian Final, you've found them all!

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...