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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

Belarus – what a mess!

So ... despite the roars of laughter in the press room on Monday when we all saw the concept for this song - if...

Israel have performed a miracle on that

The Israeli team has literally polished a turd. This really was substandard on Monday, and served to confirm all my conscious bias towards 'Toy'....

Lithuania – It’s more beautiful

Ieva and her delegation need to be applauded. They seem to have either read what most people have written, or have noticed that the...

Czech Republic – The man’s a trouper

Say what you like about Mikolas and the song, he's got balls and guts to even be on the stage at the moment. He's...

Belgium – That’s a lot better thanks

Sennek has upped her game since her first rehearsal but, quite frankly, that wouldn't take much. I'm still not convinced that the opening shot...

Iceland – it *is* too late to save this

Poor young Ari. As we know by now, he's been lumbered with this pile of shite. He's better than this. He has to be...

Taking the Hacksaw to Eurovision Semi 2

Now that we've seen all of the songs in the Eurovision semi-final shows here in Lisbon, we asked our occasional contributor-at-large Roy D Hacksaw to give...

Albania and NOT Iceland next

Iceland have been delayed by a car crash they have not been involved in (Ironic, given on stage they will be involved in one...

Azerbaijan – Second time around

Now remember we've got FIFTEEN of these to get through today. Aisel is now dancing on the cheeses from the first day, she tends to...

Only me!

I've given Jody and Monty the day off today and I think they are going to see some Tennisista's bash some balls about on...