Eurovision 2023: The Grand Final

The Eurovision Song Contest was won by Ukraine last year, but they weren’t able to host due to the ongoing war/Russian invasion of their country, so runners up the UK hosted it on their behalf.

Eurovision 2023: Semi-Finals

As we were hosting in the UK, on behalf of the 2022 winners Ukraine, I thought I’d do two posts this year, one for the semi-finals and another for the final.

Eurovision 2022

The shadow of geopolitical events was always going to be there with this year’s Eurovision. But it still managed to be a good one.

Eurovision 2021

The 65th Eurovision Song Contest was supposed to have been hosted in the Netherlands in 2020. But, as we all know, the pandemic happened, so the contest had to be cancelled. Essentially it was postponed, with the 65th Eurovision being hosted in the Netherlands in 2021 instead, the only difference being that the acts would have to enter different songs.

Eurovision 2020: Europe Shine A Light

The cancellation of the Eurovision Song Contest for this year wasn’t really unexpected due to the coronavirus pandemic, and it was the correct and sensible descision, but obviously it was a pity, especially for the artists who were due to compete in it and the Netherlands who were to host it. The decision for next year is that it will be held in the Netherlands, and the artists that were supposed to take part in 2020 can return. However, they have to sing different songs from what they were going to sing this year. Personally, I don’t see why, but apparently it would be against the rules of the competition if they entered the songs due for 2020 again.

Instead of the contest, they broadcast this programme Europe Shine A Light, where we would get to hear all 41 songs (normally, some would be culled in the semi-finals). But we’d only get 30 seconds of each one! I listened to all of them before this programme, so for what it’s worth here’s what I thought of them, and Europe Shine A Light itself:

Eurovision 2019

The Eurovision Song Contest has come around again, and it’s the last one of the 2010s! It’s still quite a way off its 70th edition, but the contest is still going strong as we’re about to enter a new decade.

Eurovision 2018

Well, even for Eurovision, 2018 was a strange year!

Eurovision 2017

The Eurovision Song Contest in 2017 didn’t exactly have the smoothest path, and it had a something of a surprising winner.

20 Years of UK Eurovision Entries – Ranking Post

Having been a viewer of The Eurovision Song Contest for 20 years, while I’ve always enjoyed the contest, my home country, the United Kingdom hasn’t exactly done well in it during the last couple of decades. The very first one I saw was when the UK won! A lot of our entries since then haven’t been great really, but I still think some are quite good, so here is my ranking of the UK’s Eurovision entries since 1997.

20 Years of Eurovision Winners – Ranking Post

I have been a Eurovision viewer for 20 years, this year’s contest will be the 21st one I’ve seen. The first one I watched was in 1997, when my home country the United Kingdom won! The only time in the past two decades, and let’s face it, the way things are going it may well turn out to be the last time. But as it was 20 years ago, ahead of the grand final next week, I have done a ranking of the Eurovision Song Contest winners of the past 20 years.