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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.

Bulgaria – Yup, Dad’s are seemingly back in fashion

Well this is certainly a thing. I thought I would absolutely hate this song when I got to see it on the stage and,...

LIVE BLOG of Semi Final Two Tuesday Afternoon – Live from...

Live from Oneurope Towers it's the afternoon rehearsal of the second Semi Final! - A chance for the nine viewers of this blog to...

Bulgaria – Just Fab

Poli is now on her third go at this and it just gets better and better as far as I am concerned. She starts...

Austria’s not quite found her charm yet

Plenty of good will for this abounding, and Zoë stole the show in London and Amsterdam. What this needs is charm, and buckets of...

Eurovision 2004 – Semi final one – first dress rehearsal

We were let in - much to our surprise - to the first dress rehearsal of the day!! As its nearly time for the 2nd...

Pony Tail or Pony Club? – You choose….

This song is a total oxymoron. On the one hand it should be somewhat "filthy" and suggestive. Lyrically it's all about being somewhat naughty...

Day Six begins with Armenia…. worryingly

It's a very good place to start. The start of the song has lots of camera cuts - indeed death by a thousand cuts, no...

Ireland: trying (and succeeding) to die

Ten years ago, I fulfilled a dream and went up in a hot air balloon over Australia. Once we got up there I realised I...
Departure time

Eurovision 2019 – The rehearsal schedule

The OnEuropeans are packing their bags and haggling with the Post Office over exchange rates to make sure they've enough set by for cake,...

Sweden – Too late for losing?

So, for reasons known only to the Eurovision firmament (and possibly Christer Bjorkman), the Swedes have once again secured almost the same staging used...