Austrian viewing figures, Ameerican Cliches, British Myths and a look round the press room in a quick round up of web news in the world of the Eurovision Song Contest tonight.

So, what do we make of the Thursday show? To be honest it was a bit bland. The songs that we expected to go through did go through and the failures decided it would be a good night to fail. The main “shock” or at least the headlines will be the loss of Dana International, […]

ISDN lines, fan meets, surprise Blue appearances, how gay is Eurovision, and the Swiss selection process for 2012 in tonight's link-up of the Song Contest web sites.

ESC Insight photographer Steven Newby headed out to meet Blue yesterday for a short interview - which then proceeded to become a lunch that's going to be a treasured memory for Steven for a long time. Here's why, in his own words...

Well, that's going to rip up the form book for the Eurovision experts. The ten countries to go through from the first semi-final to Saturday's Grand Final quite simply qualified because they were good songs.