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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.

LIVE BLOG of Semi Final Two Tuesday Afternoon – Live from...

Live from Oneurope Towers it's the afternoon rehearsal of the second Semi Final! - A chance for the nine viewers of this blog to...

Germany in actually quite good shocker!

Levina revealed to Eurovision.tv moments before taking to the stage that her performance was going to feature a surprise. It turns out to be...

Denmark….. I believe that we’ve heard this…

….song 4 billion times before and in every Danish National Final evah! Lighthouse X, pronounced Ten, clearly, are “Doing a Kate Ryan” with their light...

Well the press centre catering has gone downhill

No it's not Edam but it is cheese - yes it's a jumbo sausage roll cos i'm fat and yes it's got a side...

Greek silence

Quite a delay for Greece as we have the sound turned off in the press centre. The band appeared on stage in white t-shorts,...

What a start from the Dutch

Day Seven (though it feels like longer) begins with Netherlands, The. My phone just rang... it's NSF 1989... they want all their songs back! OG3NE split...

Azerbaijan – My lovely horse

Dihaj is first up after a short break - and if you've been following the bookies, this song was fancied to turn in a...
Roko at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest for Croatia in Tel Aviv

Croatia – just when you thought you’d seen everything

For the last twenty years (yes, seriously, we are that old) OnEuropeans have crawled from their Eurovision beds and thought: "Surely, surely Croatia would...

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...

Quelle surprise la France!

France provide us with a beautifully staged song in complete contrast to some of the other ‘pre qualified’ countries (Spain and UK looking at...