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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.

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...

Finland – Potential Camel Toe alert!

She’s singing away alright…. away into non-qualifying hell. It was going so well as well before she started singing and that’s not a slight...

And then there were (still!) 27

Well well well. We have our final line up. All this and we’ve still only lost 13 songs! What a great semi final yesterday:...

Directo de Lisboa! Choose wisely Europe!

Semi Two is much harder! Don’t think I’ll get 9/10 again but here goes.., I think there are three dead certs being Sweden, Azerbaijan and...

Live Blog – Eurovision 2015 Jury Semi Final

Hello OnEuropeans! Monty here and I’m doing a rolling blog of the jury semi final for you, refresh for updates. Just to warn you...

Eurovision 2015 – Another day of rehearsals

The morning after the night before at Eurovision is always a little bit sad, with dejected fans, disappointed delegations, and some oddments of promotional...

Liveblog – Eurovision Semi Final One Jury Rehearsal

This afternoon’s rehearsal as seen from the press centre!!! A sublime opening with the graphic of the Building Bridges logo being formed from lighted shots...

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...

Rosé’s having a moment…

When a song you’ve loved for months is finally shown in full at the rehearsal you do get a little choked. I’m a little...

Riigi’s blogging frenzy – the Grand Final Dress Rehearsal

23.52 - That's it from me for now.  Enjoy the show tomorrow night, and may the best song song with the highest score win....