Love Shine a Light "Love Shine a Light" - Rew being the only instrumentalist onstage -on the 9 March 1997 broadcast of the "Great British Song Contest" final which program also featured a taped interview with Rew in which he described Eurovision as "one of those great institutions of life"; also Rew accompanied Leskanich onstage to be congratulated for "Love Shine a Light"'s being announced at the UK entrant for Eurovision 1997. However Rew was absent from the Katrina and the Waves performance of "Love Shine a Light" at the Eurovision 1997 final held on 3 May 1997. One of eight songs aired in
Eurovision Song Contest 1997 Dex Award, a humorous award given to the worst dressed artist each year in the contest. It is named after the Belgian artist, Barbara Dex, who came last in the 1993 contest, in which she wore her own self designed dress. House of Eurovision would continue to provide the Barbara Dex Award until 2016, when another Eurovision fansite, songfestival.be, took the reins of the award and will present it every year starting with the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest in Ukraine. Debbie Scerri of Malta was the 1997 Barbara Dex Award winner. The order in which each country announced their votes