Austria wins Eurovision Song Contest: Malta places 17th

Austria won the Eurovision Song Contest with 436 points followed by Israel with 357 and Estonia with 356. Malta placed 17th with Miriana Conte’s Serving on 91 points.

Earlier

Voting has started in the Eurovision Song Contest. Malta currently places 12th after the country votes. Austria and Switzerland are in the lead.

Malta only garnered 8 points from televoting an extremely disappointing result.

The live blog

As expected everyone in Malta is rooting for Miriana Conte and her song Serving….

First singing is Norway’s Kyle Alessandro with a catchy performance. Not one of the favourites though.

Luxembourg is represented by Laura Thom with another catchy tune which also has a sexy twist.

Israel is next with the beautiful Yuva Raphani. An amazing voice…..

Tommy Cash from Estonia is serving Espresso Macchiato.

Lithuanias item is a shouting match.

Melody from Spain and her song is ESA Diva. Nice rhythm and as expected some hot moves..

Ukraine has a Bird of Prey but the song is rather disappointing

United kingdom are next with What the Hell Just Happened and the three girls from Remember Monday. A good song but nothing remarkable here either.

Austria and JJ with his incredible falsetto voice. A dark horse here is Wasted Love.

Iceland is represented by a boy band Vaev with a lot of shouting and glitzy outfits

Latvia go the other way and it’s all girls with Tautumeitas.

Netherlands’ Claude has a beautiful song Ce la Vie which is being touted as a favourite.

Photos by Clyde Meli

Erika and Miriana

Erika Vikman from Finland gets the crowd going. She is on fire!

Italy and Lucio Corsi give a nod to the ballad.

Poland and Gaia take us to the mountains and space. Germany with Abor and Tyme are quite forgettable. Klavdia from Greece is a typical song from that country.

Parg from Macedonia has a rock song with plenty of body on display. Zoe Me is the Swiss entry with Voyage sung eloquently.

Miriana Conte was predictably powerful and amazing at the same time. Serving….was top notch with the choreography probably the best.

After the energy of Malta, Napa from Portugal was a bit sleepy. Denmark with Sisall had us all Hallucinating.

Sweden with Bara Bada Bastu are supposedly one of the favourites but there’s nothing much in the song. France is represented by Lou Anne who has a belter of a voice. San Marino have Gabry Ponte with memories of 90’s dance. Albania were the last on stage with Zjerm a slightly unbalanced duo.