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Rehearsal Blog

Eurovision rehearsal time. Practice makes perfect, if ever there was a time to make a silk purse from a sow’s ear, this would be it. Our reports come live from the Eurovision Song Contest host city – and sometimes from the actual venue. Photo and video reports to keep you warm until the big night.

Hungary – dark, broody and shoeless

The screens came on near the end of the performance so we didn't see much of Joci's rehearsal, but luckily, he went through it...
Lake Malawi at Eurovision 2019 - Second rehearsal

Czech Republic – Running very late

So - Czechia (as no one calls them) should have been on stage at approximately five past the hour - it's now twenty five...

Our first look inside the big hall

With the start of today's second run throughs we've been allowed access into the big hall here at the Tel Aviv Expo, and it's...
Zala Kralj & Gašper Šantl

Slovenia … Sometimes you don’t need to

... shout very loudly. However, it's oh so quiet and oh so still. It was the same intimate staging as on Saturday, but I just think...
Tulia at Eurovision 2019

Poland – The new Morris (Marina) dancing?

Being from the UK of Stuff, this made me think of Maypole dancing ... but without the maypole or the movement. It's very hard to...
Darude at Eurovision

Finland – is it all in my head?

The last time I said something about Finland, I was picked up in by least three online newspapers it transpires. If they are watching,...
DMol at Eurovision 2019

Montenegro – Can they fall any further?

It seems as though the Montenegrins went away and thought about what they did at the first rehearsal ... before coming back with essentially...
Tamta at Eurovision 2019

Cyprus – That’s entertainment!

Tamta still whipped off her bodice to reveal her sparkly Spanx at about the two-minute mark and she looked even more like Madonna (who...

Azerbaijan – Chingiz CAN

Chingiz can certainly do no wrong as far as I’m concerned (and lots of people in the Press Centre … and even the non-gays!) This...
Tamara Todevska

North Macedonia – new name, new game

Tamara is either going to come on after Duncan's not looking at the camera and kill it (because by God, her delegation have it...