Semi finals

After a little faffing around, the FIRST dress rehearsal of the FIRST semi-final has actually started.  Our three hosts are on stage telling us...

With thanks to our chums at Eurovision Ireland whilst I go to Belem to recreate the Conquistador Video you get to enjoy their excellent live...

Hull! Oh! You! Roppp!!! It turns out that even a virtual press centre starts to get a bit claustrophobic when you've watched 937 rehearsal...

While the main focus at each Eurovision Song Contest is on the competing songs, viewers also get to see performances from other acts at...

We're back live this evenings after a day out and about - Chernobyl, since you ask. And it's our first chance to watch all...

I could, and probably will, get this horrendously wrong tomorrow night.  I've picked 10 songs, but 4 or 5 more of them have narrowly,...

So there we just had the first semi final dress rehearsal and the sea references are laid on thick and fast from the outset,...

I'm posting this little prediction based on one rough and ready tech run-through where SVT and EBU servers fell over, throwing each and every...

Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom also voted in this semi-final. Draw Country Language Artist Song Place Points 01 Malta English Firelight "Coming Home" 9 63 02 Israel English, Hebrew Mei Finegold "Same Heart" 14 19 03 Norway English Carl Espen "Silent Storm" 6 77 04 Georgia English The Shin and Mariko "Three Minutes to Earth" 15 15 05 Poland Polish, English Donatan...

Sorry we’re late peeps – Garrett for Eurovision Ireland held us up on getting to the arena… Seriously man! Ireland – Yeah that actually was...