Semi 2 business

Kenan Doglu at Eurovision

Now then, who were good and who were poor from yesterday’s first run through?

Well you would expect that Ukraine are a given. The act gets better and better with each new performance, and the gal’s got to be in there at the death for a pop at the winner’s gong.

Croatia too are looking good, as we’d expected, but Bulgaria are increasingly looking the form act in this heat. Like so many acts this year, they chuck the kitchen sink at it, but do it in an ordered and logical manner, leaving it look like a dead professional three minute stint. And after the huge intro, the unmassed crowds let out a collective sigh of ‘wow!’. One to watch for a top five I fancy.

Keep an eye out too on Lithuania – the song that nobody has given a hope to. He’s clearly the best singer in the whole dang contest, and his understated control could well trawl in the votes of those startled by all the bombast and boom-bang-a-bang. He’ll only sneak in at the bottom if he does get through, but don’t be surprised if you see him there.

Sweden though are looking strong but dated, and I fear this will all but sneak though – to be met with an ignominious fate in the final. Where next for the Swedes if this is the last days of schalger, I wonder? Iceland too is looking in danger. It’s not necessarily done anything wrong, but listening to all the crowd faves at Euro Cafe last night, I noted the low finishing position and qualifying rate of all the floor fillers – and this could be the next to suffer the ‘close but no Saturday night fun’ award.

Turkey’s borderline, it’s great and confidently staged, but we is wondering where the votes are coming from. Hopefully cool folks who are saving up to go out on Saturday! And Latvia, I hate to say, is looking more doom flavoured by the minute. It’s the curse of me having money on it, I suspect, but I’ll still be waving the pirate flag like a loon this evening.

More news from the next rehearsal as it happens from the boys, and from the hall’s eye view afterwards!

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