Switzerland is kind of neutralised
I’m now wishing I’d been a fly on the wall in the presentation at the Heads of Delegation meeting back in March. I guess...
S*itzerland… Back to usual form
Well Melanie comes on stage in one dress, then uses the back of her dress as a batfink style cape… her wings are, quite...
A Måns explanation and what I think….
… Well they stopped the clock on the rehearsal to get the projection screen correct and then had another lengthy pause in order to...
Sweden – really more a technical rehearsal than anything else
I suspect there’s not going to be too much useful to say here. Måns and his tiny chums are more or less replicating what...
Iceland – Unfrozen
I’ve been sitting here thinking, great set, gorgeous set. Mountains. A rocky floor with glimpses of lava through the cracks below. Northern lights floating...
Iceland – It’s the Minipops (well one of them)
Dear RUV, can you get your styling och consulting people to stop making Maria look like a 10 year old Emillie De Forest on...
Azerbaijan….. Hungry like the Wolf
Elnur is channeling Ingmar Bergman with this performance and, as Ewan from ESC Insight has just explained to me, it’s very very symbolic staging...
Azerbaijan and expectations
I’m sitting here very surprised, and I know we’ve only had one runthrough, just how disappointed I am with the Azeri staging. The stage...
Latvia – Pasta Aminata sounds lovely but …
... the real thing is being dressed in a very long red dress and is totally static and doesn’t move sans some whirring arm...
Israel and Latvia together at last …
I was actually in the press centre before rehearsals started, but a technical issue with my internets took a few minutes to resolve (turn...