It’s been another complicated year for the Eurovision Song Contest – what with it being staged in yet another host nation with febrile political tensions, a contentious record with human rights abuses and loud calls for a boycott – but it seems that next year might be less problematic for pop fans.
The bookies currently have the Netherlands as the big favourite (a lovely James Blake-style song with boring bloke-at-a-piano staging) although Australia’s pop-opera warbler (with ghostly dancers on huge wobbly sticks) has been steadily creeping up the ranks to become the hungry underdog.
If you are choosing to watch the show tomorrow, then the companion guide that we put together each year has been updated and reordered just in time for the final, so you can update your copy by downloading it here.
And if you aren’t watching, still make sure to cross your fingers for the Icelandic anti-capitalist, BDSM-leather-strapping electro-punks, Hatari. We desperately want you to see their performance somehow, so here’s hoping they get a chance to reprise their growly little masterwork for Reykjavik 2020.
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