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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.

Why Your Favourite Song Isn’t Going To Win Eurovision This Year

It’s about this time of year that we start to assess the relative chances of each of the songs competing at this year’s Eurovision...

Does winning Eurovision matter?

Back in the day, for those taking part in the Eurovision Song Contest, there was one goal: victory. Runners-up sank without trace. But has...

Have you been accredited yet Mr Phil??

Well it's that time of year when the so-called fan press panics about how many of them are going to be accredited. A time...

Live blog: Semi-final 2 – Jury Rehearsal

2101 – We’ve started!!! 2104 – Ready for a musical number to explain the Eurovision ... It’s ace 2108 – Excellent – SVT know how to...

Sweden – no longer looking like the winner

Frans barely needs to rehearse this anymore from the performance perspective at least, and even from a technical perspective this already seems completely polished. It...

Australia – What on earth are SBS thinking?

Now remember something here, SBS sent in their ideas for this staging months ago, and never said: "Oh, she’ll need to be on a...

Lithuania – looking a bit silly

Lithuania’s Donny appears to have had a semi perm in his hair and, with leather jacket and ripped jeans, there seems to be a...

Macedonia – Strong show

In my opinion this tramples all over Ireland's Nicky. This song is stronger and presented better in many ways. Vocally stronger, visually more in keeping with...

Ireland… Dear EdExcel

… It appears one of your students has written the Eurovision Entry for Ireland this year and deserves to be marked down accordingly. When you...

Serbia – still excellent

There is a little bit of a break at the moment so it’s time for me to let you know that Serbia is really...