2013

Italy, Sweden and the United Kingdom voted in this semi-final. Draw Country Language Artist Song Place Points 01 Austria English Natália Kelly "Shine" 14 27 02 Estonia Estonian Birgit "Et uus saaks alguse" 10 52 03 Slovenia English Hannah "Straight into Love" 16 8 04 Croatia Croatian Klapa s Mora "Mižerja" 13 38 05 Denmark English Emmelie de Forest "Only Teardrops" 1 167 06 Russia English Dina Garipova "What If" 2 156 07 Ukraine English Zlata Ognevich "Gravity" 3 140 08 Netherlands English Anouk "Birds" 6 75 09 Montenegro Montenegrin Who...

...that apart from the results, that all went very much as I expected. Kudos to SVT, sound and vision were bang on the money...

Hello Europe!!! No time for bloggage today peeps as La Monty turfed me out of the room to tend to matters more important. Yes he's...

If you've been following this blog avidly over the last week, you know as much as I do. Actually more as I haven't been...

OK time to nail my serviette to the mast, here's what I think will qualify: Estonia Slovenia Denmark Russia Ukraine Netherlands Moldova Ireland Belgium Serbia My Kate Ryan award is going to Belarus. Monty x

I'm having an afternoon off from Eurovision. And yes, that is a euphemism. Before I have it off there's just some time to mention...

Albania – We only speak one language, so there are no tears anymore Armenia – Who’s the one with the clever face? That can tell...

I'm terrible at this, but I'm going to stick my big scrawny Baltic neck out and predict that the following will qualify for round...

23.00 - It's all over now, until tomorrow night.  Good night and I hope you enjoyed this. 22.55 - The dummy results are now coming...

21.52 - Belgium again- due to circumstances beyond his control.  I suspect the Juries didn't get it or it was out of time with...