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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.

Romania – Clearly never on a Saturday

The phrase "a nag set to music" was surely coined for this song. Ester seemed to make this feel like hard work and despite...

Moldova – Alyosha wants her staging back

So, after a hearty lunch (chicken in a pitta with hummus and salad, thanks for asking!), I came back and had to do some...

Reaching out … Touching me … Touching YOU!

Hello, OnEuropeans, Phil here. Now I know that people have been viewing - our page views are through the Eurovision roof (and I've not been...
Luca Hanni at Eurovision 2019 in Tel Aviv

Switzerland – Hit me with your Cuba Libre!

First off, apologies about missing Lativa, It's not deliberate. I had a mountain of work to do, but did take advice from people at...
Carousel at Eurovisioin 2019 in Tel Aviv

Latvia – Time gentlemen, please

Mr Phil, is busy elsewhere in Tel Aviv, so we've had a shout around and asked for opinions on the Latvian song - up...
Sarah McTernan

lreland – See Srbuk – Strip it back a bit

There were so many elements to the staging of Sarah McTernan's performance that it came across as overwhelming. Thankfully, and perhaps surprisingly, the vocal wasn't...

Armenia – it’s all a bit … edgy

Srbuk was left alone on the stage in this performance, and the stripped-back look on screen suited the vocal to a point, but there...
Tel Aviv

Today at the Games – Day 1 and 2’s Local news...

So, as Daz Sampson so elequently put it, what *did* we learn in school today ... well over the last two days? The answer...

San Marino – What nightmares are made of

In a land far away from this one live the Eurovisionistas. Their fantasies fuel contests filled with Carola (or anyone else Swedish). One cold night,...

Greece – They’ve got it going on

And by it, I mean everything. Because that's what the Greeks had on stage today. Literally everything. It was like fire sale at the...