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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.”

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...

Fusedemarc win after a long long long time in Lithuania

In a final that we have largely ignored - principally because we didn't understand it - Fusedmarc seem to have won the Lithuanian selection...

Bot or not – Who faked it at Eurovision 2017?

Anyone can gather Twitter followers. You don’t have to be famous. All you have to do is pay for them. We often judge a celebrity...

Hungary’s hairy man hasn’t had his man bun cut and it...

So then Hungary, what is this you have brought to the table? Why it's ethnicity, that's what this smells of. Roy D Hacksaw (of...

UK – Start composing … NOW!

The day has come. The UK - that bastion of good taste and great music - has, by the grace of God and the...

Malta Song for Europe – Full results

I'm not in Malta. I've never been. I knew someone who went and they came back with a nasty cold, so there's a lesson...

Portugal – has the real RTP stood up?

The first Portuguese semi final was a bit of a blur to me, being in Malta with dodgy technology and arguably focusing on the...

Georgia – They had a final you know!

So, that country down in the deep south ... of Europe, Georgia, gave us a treat for eye and ear on Friday 20th January....

Oh Nathan …

Quite honestly we've had four dirges this morning from two different semi finals, and then we get this. Nathan Trent is a total class apart from anything...

Azerbaijan – My lovely horse

Dihaj is first up after a short break - and if you've been following the bookies, this song was fancied to turn in a...