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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.

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...
Michael Rice

United Kingdom – Ain’t no big deal

Things didn't start well; the first run-through lasted seconds before the music stopped after a series of strangely planned camera shots. After one false...

Norway – this is entertainment!

Now this is all sorts of genius. Possibly not in the way the Contest Gods intended 66 years ago, but genius none the less. Subwoolfer's...

Slovenia – A load of old balls?

I’ve always said that this song is as ill-fitting in this contest as the bad suit that Filip is wearing and the first run...

LIVE BLOG of Semi Final One Evening show from 2100 CET

So here we are again - as happy as can be! - The Eurovision starts in earnest with the first Semi Final Evening rehearsal. ...

Monteneg-NO!

Whist it is commendable for Montenegro to be experimental yet again, I don’t think there will be too many people in Europe that will...

Poland – Eeerk!!

First rehearsal, he was all in Silver and it looks like he’d borrowed the bacofoil again and then for the second rehearsal Michel got...

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...

Finland – Sing little birdie

After Slavko, we're getting a cold compress in the shape of Norma John and their ode to self harm. I'm assured they're fun people...

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...