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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.”

The Poles have made my words dry up!

Poland appears after a short hiatus for us to calm down after Demy.  Kasia and her very dodgy rhyming dictionary (Fire, desire, higher and...

Well, my ten qualifiers from tonight …

In a little less than - checks watch at time of writing - twelve hours, we'll know whether the list that I am about...

Sorry Tijana who are you?

Tijana appears to have stolen the intro to "About you now" for the first 15 seconds, and then veers away just before a plagiarism...

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...

Monty’s Eurovision Countdown – Norway

Grab the Moment by JOWST featuring Aleksander Walmann There’s been a lot of unsavoury grabbing going on lately. I hope the title of this doesn’t...

Latvia: lovely boots and not a willy in sight

Triana Park complete the first semi-final with an energetic performance. She looks great, with a multi-length hairdo, chopped with sharp edges, in yellow and...

If all you saw was a girl in a wheelchair, what...

It was little more than a week ago that Russia's Channel One announced Julia Samoylova as its choice for the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest. At...

Portugal – Festival da Canção – First semi-final Results

Sometimes I feel sorry for a country at Eurovision. And that's almost always the case with Portugal. They don't make it easy though, there's...

Swedish singer hits back at Eurovision winner

When Portuguese singer Salvador Sobral picked up the 2017 Eurovision trophy, his short acceptance speech ruffled some feathers. “Music is not fireworks; music is...

Croatia – You’ve broken Music!

Seriously, though, what on earth has HRT done to the contest? Their entrant, Jacques Houdek - who has tried numerous times for Croatia, so knows what...