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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.

Poland can’t cool me down

It’s not Margaret. Do I have to write anything more? Ok then. Almost all of the viewers won’t even now that Margaret ever existed,...

Starting with the Finnish

I’ve started with a Mister Naef moment as my computer failed to connect to the network in the press centre. Having spent some tense...

Montenegro – From the sublime to the gloriously gay

Rarely has there been such an abrupt mood change at the contest, and this may well play to Slavko Kalezić's chances. It's like he took...

Monty’s Semi 2 Summary

Despite my knowing better I’m still given to folly, so once more, dear reader, I shall attempt a review of the semi from my...

Romania gives us guns, Ukraine gives us head

“I can’t hear my ears!” yells Ilinca from Romania as she starts to yodel at the start of Romania’s rehearsal. There will be those...

Ukraine – too pretty to be gnarly?

Ukraine started on time - which is always good. They have only had a couple of runs, but not a lot has changed. The lead...
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Live Blog – Second semi-final – dress rehearsal

We're back live this evenings after a day out and about - Chernobyl, since you ask. And it's our first chance to watch all...

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...
Katerine enjoys a great second rehearsal at Eurovision 2019

Greece – Love profusion

You're in my sweaty palms today until Mr Phil reaches the hall after a hard-earned morning off. I've been granted access to a handful...

Semi-final 1 – how we ranked and rated the songs

Long term readers will be aware that in days of yore, OnEuropean hacks chose to gather in brightly-lit all-you-can-eat buffet bars and ponder what...