18.37 – Final Run Through – and they have introduced a countdown clock on the final reprise, which is a good move!! , some dodgy choices of clips. and some dodgy presenting!!
18.24 – Petra Mede is an angry woman in so many way – She looked well pissed off when she did her last bit to camera – She has no make up on, and looks very……. disheveled indeed and somewhat perturbed!!
18.21 – Romania – Cezar doesn’t get it does he. He’s high on Ego and not cocaine, oh dear me no!! – This may get the comedy vote, but this is still a mess of the highest order.
18.17 – Switzerland – Does nothing out of the ordinary – but after one chorus it plods along like a fucker and doesn’t do anything – I think its SatNav is broken, cos instead of winner they have programmed it to the airport. Its a nothing song, probably not qualifying…
18.13 – Georgia – Another of those formulaic songs – It could be Eurovision by Numbers the Eastern European way – but when she leans into him its clunky and they have no on screen and on stage chemistry – It could be on the cusp of not qualifying, but should go through.
18.08 – Albania – This too could qualify – It has fireworks and Rock and all sorts of good stuff – It’ll tick jury boxes, worried a bit about the Televote though – its not televoter friendly enough is it?? – Roy thinks it might be.
18.06 – Linda Woodruff Business here – in Malmo – Bonnie Tyler plug Ahoy!
18.01 – Norway – Margaret Burger King is doing her business here – this is also qualifying and could well run anything else close. I’d much prefer this to beat Denmark in a fight to the Eurovision Death because this feels more fresh compared to Denmarks formulaic and staid performance. This is qualifying from this bit though with ease.
18.00 – Hungary. Simple staging and has something about it – I’m not sure if its qualifying or not though. To me it seems a little bit flat and missing something but I don’t know what its missing – I know the whole “cool kid” thing is what he does but yet…..
17.55 – Armenia. hmmmmm. Next..
17.50 – Israel – Forget the Styling och Consulting – It’s the vocal that’s the trouble with this one – She’s all over the shop and it and after the previous 5 – It’s going to get lost.
17.47 – Greece – If this doesn’t go through I’m changing my name etc…… – I turned to Mr Hack Saw and said “This is in trouble?” – I was completely wrong. It’s the next one that’s in trouble… and I’ll explain why presently.
17.41 – Iceland – If this doesn’t go through I’m going to change my name to Paddy McShitsville. This makes me cry like most Icelandic songs of years but Eyesore hasn’t half got a pair of lungs on him and my eyes have gone all teary. Fucking vote for this tomorrow. The kids are unmoved but they know nothing. DANGER DANGER!!!
17.38 – Bulgaria, however, are in deep trouble. This has nothing new or exciting to offer and jst bores me – Its almost 3 minutes of drumming and I don’t know where its going to get votes from.
17.35 – I get the feeling that Malta may well do very well here – It’s simple enough and homely enough for the people back home to like it and genuine enough for the juries to tick their boxes. Going through!!
17.29 – Finland They are clearly socially forwards over here as the kiss was unedited for the kiddies!! – It’s still sailing through as Krista doesn’t do anything other than you wouldn’t expect. Top 5
17.24 – Azerbaijan – Farid is gripping his microphone like his life depends on it and its also as though he has just seen a crowd for the first time in his life and completely and utterly panicked. There was fear that I could smell on him from here – He has to get over that otherwise he could be sunk.
17.20 – Esma’s mate has taken the glasses off and now looks a hundred percent better, however when Esma comes on there is something very engaging in quite the wrong kind of good ways! – However if this gets through be careful for it, as who else are the Balkans going to vote for???
17.16 – San Marino – She learned how to count the time changes, it looks great but, to me, she’s trying a little bit too hard to get through – it’s almost me, me, me, me, me… It might be her though.
17.12 – PeR would have just woken Europe up, as opposed to Last Night’s business – 8000 kids going mental to this – this should now be qualifying if the audience reaction is anything to go by.
17.09 – Petra Mede looks like Pete Burns – bloody hell its awful – still, we’re off now.
17.02 – and we’re off with an interpretive dance of lots of cultures to embrace the We Are One theme….
Afternoon Europe – This is where the site’s rolling blog will be for this afternoon’s shenanigans!!