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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.”

Hello? – Rotherham Grand? – Your lounge singer has turned up…

... Omar looks like he has a ten-year residency at said hotel, and is lazily singing his way through this song. But no amount...

Slovenia: beam me up, Omar

Omar from Slovenia is up now. I’ve already commented in my Countdown how I think he’s got an uphill struggle, and he’s not really...

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...

Armenian amazeballs

My first rehearsal to blog this year: Armenia is AMAZEBALLS! First rehearsal of the day and Artsvik’s performance is stunning! It’s very simple, her...

Gravity or gravitas

We're having some sound issues in the press centre again - as we were the last time Cyprus rehearsed. The conspirators amongst you might think...

I know who she reminds me of now

ROMINA POWER! For the avoidance of doubt, he left her... But back to the song. To be honest we had a problem technique here so my...

En route (well actually I’m already here)

And we're off! 4.30am alarm, who says Eurovision is glamorous? I'm currently mid-flight, dear reader, although you'll not be reading this until after I've...

ow … paper cut?

This has thankfully improved immeasurably from the low base that it was back on Monday. Svala has opened the locker entitled "Notes", studied them...

Love and Marriage, go together like a horse and …

... no, not another horse, more like the one-trick pony that this was always going to be - but one thing you can say...

Desire… Fire… Liar… Tryer… Deep-fat fryer…

Now you see, love, I'm not the only one that can rhyme fire with desire in about 95 different ways. I also must remember that...