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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.

Apparently Slovenia has been on stage

Where’s my effing coffee!! sips Ahhhhhhh Is it wrong that if you mix blue and red together you get beige? – That is the best way to...

Austria – It’s a NO from me!

I need to declare an interest in this – I liked this song…. note the past tense there…. Zoe now stands on a backdrop...

The sensible view

And it all begins. Negotiated our way past the security - who for no specified reason want us to check out laptops in and...

Good job Claudia can inhale the wind because…..

It's the only thing that is keeping her from suffocating (being breathless and all). The first thing I did when I saw this performance...

Armenian amazeballs

My first rehearsal to blog this year: Armenia is AMAZEBALLS! First rehearsal of the day and Artsvik’s performance is stunning! It’s very simple, her...

It’s the 1979 Marshall Amplification Disco Dancing Champs …

So, it's comedy time at the Eurovision with Val and Jim! The fans like this because, well, Valentina (God and gays love a trier), but...
Eurovision mix tape

The OnEurope Eurovision 2019 mix tape

Let's face it, most of us are reaching our fill of the 41 songs vying for the 64th Eurovision crown. We know what we...
Carousel

Latvia – True blue

Carousel do a good job of a song that feels out of place in this semi-final. Or the contest in general. There was a little...

France – A message to your heart

I think I need to split this song and its staging into constituent parts. Firstly, as a song, I love 'Roi'. It's complex and deep...

France – That can only mean The Big 5

I love this song. I love everything about it – possibly because I have spent a few years holidaying in Brittany and loved the...