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Eurovision Rehearsals

Stay in touch with everything happening in Rotterdam in the run up to the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest. The OnEurope crew will be in the virtual press centre and telling you what’s going on.

Italy: Someone needs shut-eye

I got to see one of the three rehearsals this morning - and heard plenty of reports of the shambolic first run-through - which...

Today in Parliament Day Eight – The line is in sight.

So, another very short day in rehearsal land, or Sweden as we call it, With just the Big 5 and Sweden doing their second...

Well … some things are traditional

It seems as though nothing has changed in the 24 months since we were all here, people in the online press centre are wittering...

Ukraine – Efendi, love, I’d shield your chips if I were...

Why? Because they've just been pissed on by Ukraine. Any impact that Efendi's mincing about the stage would have had has just been drowned...

Albania – oooh this has tickled my fancy.

Well, this is clearly the proper start to the day because I’m more awake now I’ve seen Albania and realised Anxhela looks like a...

Croatia – Is she in love with……?

For reasons that I want to keep to myself,  everytime I see Albina I want to play this https://youtu.be/jxfB0b9Ix9o There - so you don't have to! Vocally...

Italy – Well now that, my children, is more like it.

There comes a time when you have to stand and applaud an entry for being authentic and just plain brilliant. Step forward Måneskin who, despite...

Germany – who decided this was a good idea??

I think my five readers have worked out that I might not like this song at all, but I genuinely tried to come up...

Serbia: The standout moment of 2022

From the first time I saw Konstrakta perform 'In Corpore Sano', I was hooked. And yet, I keep telling myself it's going to belly...
THAT photo of Ronela in Turin

What the internet thinks about Eurovision 2022 – Day Three

Depending on who you follow/care about/ignore, the 'broken sun' remains a life and death catastrophe or just one of those things. With TikTok coverage...