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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.

Eurovision 2002 – Jury Rehearsal

The first time that a “proper” crowd had been in to the hall.. This lifted several of the performances in the hall but, see...

Eurovision is not the same unless there is a cock!

Being a technical god is fraught with issues - I missed her last run through but thankfully she came back and had another go. Triana...

Love and Marriage, go together like a horse and …

... no, not another horse, more like the one-trick pony that this was always going to be - but one thing you can say...

Netherlands power vocals

Good morning OnEuropeans! Another day in the bubble. Netherlands first up for us today. I’m a little disappointed by this. It’s very plainly staged with...

Not quite live from the first dress rehearsal

Hello Oneuropeans! I'm just watching the first dress rehearsal of the final! I won't do a live or rolling blog, as That Phil will...

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...
Serhat rehearses

San Marino – Where’s the party?

Time for this year's guilty pleasure, Serhat (in his crop top) was back to dad dance his way through 'Say na na na'. Again, there...

Netherlands, The – Is this missing context?

The Dutch decided to put a light box on the front of the piano and darken the staging, bringing Duncan into sharper focus at...

Romania – what’s that smell?

As we have come to expect - things are running late. They don’t seem to shorten breaks to catch up though, must be a...

Phil’s Review of the day – Day..eerm..Three?

It lI feel I should start this round up with a "BONG!" sound effect but I don't know how to do that, so thankfully...