#TBT #8

For Throwback Thursday every week we're going to shine our poplight on a stone cold classic.

So, this week is Eurovision week on 'Pop is Not the Enemy'! I'm jetting off to Vienna tomorrow to watch the final live for the first time ever - excited doesn't really cover it!

For this week's 'Throwback Thursday' we're featuring a massive moment for the UK in Eurovision history, come on I'm allowed to show a little bit of patriotic bias! I am of course talking about the last time the United Kingdom won the competition in 1997 with 'Love Shine a Light' by Katrina and The Waves!

Katrina and The Waves finally managed to break the Irish stronghold on Eurovision (they'd won 4 times in the past 5 years at that point) and brought the competition over the Irish sea to Birmingham in 1998.

The song was a marked departure from the Katrina and The Waves people knew, case in point being 'Walking on Sunshine', and it paid off big time! Anthemic is definitely the word, showcasing Katrina's towering vocal it was the epitome of 1990's Eurovision with the focus being on how love can unite everyone regardless of the borders and barriers that sometimes stand in our way (this concept felt much fresher in the heady days of 1997!).

"And we're all gonna shine a light together,

All shine a light to light the way.

Brothers and sisters in every little part,

Let our love shine a light in every corner of our hearts."

The staging was simple, what more do you need when you have the perfect combination of song and voice? So, take a step back in time for 'Throwback Thursday' and soak up the epicness of 'Love Shine a Light'!

We'll just have to wait and see if Electro Velvet are more of a Katrina than a Bonnie!