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
Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1997 Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1997 Iceland was represented by Paul Oscar, with the song "Minn hinsti dans", at the 1997 Eurovision Song Contest final, which took place on 3 May in Dublin. For the third consecutive year Icelandic broadcaster RÚV chose their Eurovision entry by internal means and no Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins was held. Although "Minn hinsti dans" did not do well at Eurovision, the risqué nature of Oscar's stage presentation caused raised eyebrows across Europe and remains one of the contest's most controversial and widely remembered performances. On the night of the final Oscar performed last in the