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2018

The 2018 Eurovision Song Contest was the 63rd edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place for the first time in Lisbon, Portugal, following the country’s first victory at the 2017 contest in Kiev, with the song “Amar pelos dois”, performed by Salvador Sobral.

The contest comprised two semi-finals on 8 and 10 May, and a final on 12 May 2018 in the Altice Arena, Lisbon.
The winner of the 2018 Eurovision
The winner was Netta with ‘Toy’ representing Israel, who as she picked up her award, declare ‘Next year in Jerusalem.’ That prompted various outcries and a few suggestions of boycott, plus general talk of how it’s going to be a security nightmare and such.

See the full results from the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest

Spain: sounding good, but switch back to the first outfits

It’s Spain now, and I unashamedly, unabashedly love this! I thought they’d got a fairly good sense of it by Friday, so there’s not...

Is Bulgaria beyond the bones or beyond the pail?

'This song is going to be a difficult watch for a Tuesday night,' said Ewan from ESCInsight and yer know what? He's absolutely right. This...
Yulia or Julia, your choice

Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2018 – Russia

This hardly seems like the same woman behind that half-arsed effort that was never really meant to be taken seriously last year. This time...
Chisnau

Phil’s Eurovision Countdown – Part 30 – Moldova

If imitation is the best form of flattery, then Moldova must be basking in self-glory, as they have clearly decided that the recipe to...

Monty’s Eurovision Countdown Part 35 – RUSSIA

I Won’t Break by Julia Samoylova Russia’s rather quietly returned to Eurovision after a withdrawal in 2017 clearly designed to gain maximum PR and embarrass...
Eesti Laul

Estonia’s first Semi Final – Five songs are through to the...

After what is, as usual, a decent semi-final from Estonia we have our first 5 qualifiers for EestiLaul 2018.   Four of which were done...

Azerbaijan – iceberg ahead!

And we’re off! Azerbaijan is the first song we see in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. Aisel is in white, legging it around the...
Ieva Zasimauskaitė

Phil’s Eurovision Countdown – Part 26 – Lithuania

When you have a gazillion week semifinal procedure and then pick a song about growing old, you risk reducing your voting demographic. However, it’s the...

Iceland’s sweet saccharin sugar rush

Ari - from your real land of icebergs - next up and he’s joined by five backing singers and no piano or instruments, despite...

Want to hear something from Moldova?

Of course you do! It's Eurovision on-season and time to plough through more songs than you can shake a stick at. Today, it's the turn...