Nevertheless, if you’d like to give the impression you care how anyone else does in this year’s never-knowingly-understated extravagaanza, you can watch proceedings from Basel, Switzerland, live on LTV1 from 22:00 Rīga time (19:00 GMT) and here on LSM.

The first semi-final does include our northern neighbours, Estonia, in the form of the much-hyped Tommy Cash with the song ‘Espresso Macchiato’, so you might like to adopt him for the night. Not that Eurovision is about voting for which countries you like regardless of the songs, oh no.

Latvia’s Tautumeitas will compete in the second semi-final on Thursday.  

37 countries are competing in total, with the majority of them (26 to be precise) making it to the grand final on Saturday, May 17.

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