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[LMBTO] There's THREE Candles on this Eurovision Blog's Cake...
You can see why I'm a blogger, not an artist! This is a very crude 'Paint job' adaptation of a picture of a cake given to Alex Larke on his 36th Birthday, just before the 2015 Final in Vienna - not...
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[LMBTO] Will Anyone From Svensktoppen Nästa 2016 get to Eurovision?
It is August and normally there will have been announced a couple of artists who will be singing at the following May's Contest, but almost certainly the city where Eurovision will be hosted is known....
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[LMBTO] Marie Myriam - "L'oiseau et l'enfant" (Eurovision 1977)
As it is still so quiet on the Eurovision scene, I have decided to pick another classic past entry to focus on, my all-time favourite Eurovision vocal performance and one of my top overall picks,...
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[LMBTO] Eurovision gets local - Bristol Calling
Regular readers will know that I have been ticking off 'Eurovision things to do' since the start of my blogging experience:Start a Eurovision BlogGet a debate going with one of my postsHighlight my...
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[LMBTO] Pre-Season Is Over - Let Eurovision 2017 Begin!
The Sunday after the Eurovision Final through to the end of August is traditionally a quiet time for the Contest we all hold so dear - occasionally there are artists announced for some of the smaller...
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[LMBTO] Eurovision 2017 - It's Oh So Quiet...
Do you know how difficult it is to find a nice clear image of Björk Guðmundsdóttir from the iconic video of "It's Oh So Quiet"? I think that this superb piece of art by Matthew James Taylor stands out...
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[LMBTO] And the Host City for Eurovision 2017 is...
We are going to Kyiv next May!Probably the most obvious choice from all of the original six cities that put their names forward officially but it was only at the press conference at 1200CET on Friday...
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[LMBTO] Eurovision 2017 - I knew Week 2 would get us going...
Didn't I say that week 2 would be the week to kick start the Eurovision season? We now know for certain where we are going, have a good idea about when (although I'm holding fire on booking annual...
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[LMBTO] Eurovision 2017 Week 3 - Wildcards, Ins and Outs...
Now that is one impressive building! Saint Sophia's Cathedral (Собор святої Софії) is the proposed landmark for the Red Carpet and Opening Ceremony of Eurovision 2017 and is a UNESCO World Heritage...
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[LMBTO] Eurovision 2017 Weeks 4 & 5 - Armenia's Got Talent...
Eurobash was on last weekend so unsurprisingly I was enjoying that event rather than updating my blog and I will be providing my highlights on what went on in Manchester very soon (including my first...
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[LMBTO] FINALLY! How The UK Will Decide For Eurovision 2017...
What a difference a year makes for the three guys in this picture. Just twelve months earlier, two of them had just paired up after being knocked out of The Voice, before going on a Eurovision...
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[LMBTO] Eurobash 2016 - Interviews With The Stars...
Should this picture be subtitled "Beast And The Beauty"?I'm getting good at not showing any inhibitions about asking for a selfie with any Eurovision stars now! The gorgeous Krista Siegfrids is...
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[LMBTO] Eurovision 2017 Weeks 6 & 7 - we have our first artist!
On October 19th, something actually happened as far as artists singing in Kyiv was concerned! Director Klitos Klitou tweeted the above image, hinting at the singer who would be announced as...
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[LMBTO] OGAE SCC 2016 Results - Eurovision 2016 comes to a close...
The time and date - 5.45pm, 22 October 2016, spookily enough exactly two years after the 2014 results were announced (yes, I checked back in my blog!), OGAE Italy announced the 2016 placings of the...
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[LMBTO] Eurovision 2017 Weeks 8 & 9 - O'G3NE & 42 others sing in Kyiv...
Quite possibly the least surprising selection of Eurovision 2017, O’G3NE will be representing The Netherlands in Kyiv. Beaten to the punch by Cyprus as to being first to announce their artist for the...
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[LMBTO] What's Your Eurovision Earworm?
EARWORMSYes, you heard me - earworms, brainworms, stuck song syndrome, whatever you like to call them - those songs that are so catchy that they are still floating around in your head minutes, hours or...
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[LMBTO] Eurovision 2017 Week 10 & 11 - it's Krista and a chatty bird...
At the risk of this becoming the 'Helena and Krista' blog, yet again Ms.Siegfrids was in the Eurovision news this week with the announcement that she will be the sole host of UMK 2017. The producers...
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[LMBTO] Eurovision 2017 weeks 12 & 13 - Blanche and Jana, please step forward...
Is this going to be the year of single name artists? First we have Hovig from Cyprus, now we have the self-styled Blanche (or 'white' in French) who will be singing for Belgium. A product of The...
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[LMBTO] Eurovision 2017 week 14 - Dihaj's Azeri Experimental Journey?
Artist number five was announced earlier this week - Dihaj (or Diana Hajiyeva as she is probably known to her mum) will be the Azerbaijani entrant in Kyiv this year. Nope, yet another name I have not...
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[LMBTO] Eurovision 2017 wks 15/16 - Irish Youth, Austrian R&B (maybe)...
Did you ever have a friend at Uni who, even though they were 20, always had to show ID to get into any pub or club and even then the bar staff or bouncers were checking if it was fake? I am sure that...
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