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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

Swiss siblings

Switzerland up next, and another one that has their show sorted. Coco has her blocking sorted and now throws herself with gusto into this....

Armenia to start Day 6

Armenia is first today, and as in the first go this is pretty much ready to go. My only concern about this is that...

Day Five – You know what we said the other day...

It's a long way from Baku to Helsinki, it's even further if you throw in random stormtroopers, waving cats and a fancy frock. But...

Et Finalament – La Finlande

Saara has made an improvement on the overall performance. She still, though, looks the same as on Tuesday, and starts off strapped to the wheel...

Croatian Crazy talk

Mr Phil was away getting a coffee, so he left me in charge, and armed with just thirty selective seconds of footage (and a...

Greece – Same old same old

To be deathly honest, this rehearsal can be summed up in four words: "same as last time". There are some rehearsals that make you question...

Austria is excellent

Cesár now has TWO microphones. It doesn't double his output however, but we think he is testing out a hand mic rather than a...

FYR Macedonia reveals it all

Well, I believe we told the delegation on Tuesday that the dress that revealed a bit too much was somewhat revealing ... and we...

Bulgaria – It might be warm outside but …

... it's cold on the screen. As a song, it is a really good one, performed flawlessly, just like on Tuesday. The harmonies are spot...

Eestima … there is something amiss here

... and I don't know what it is. The Estonian entry has all of the ingredients of a great song. They also have a dress...