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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.

Sergey at Eurovision 2019

Russia – mmm, do you smell the saline?

The first thing to tell you is that there were a lot of mirrors and screens to get on stage. All  in the 32...

Czechia Please! – It’s time for Vesna

Yet more delay to the schedule. I should be used to it after 18 years, but it still frustrates me! The usual questions are being...

Today in Parliament – The Eurovision edition – Day 4

Hej hej! It's been another day of events in the Big Eurovision house, and I'm here once again to point out things that you...

Today in Parliament – The Eurovision edition – Day 2

Good evening! As a result of time zone shenanigans and/or me not getting it written in time, yesterday's Today In Parliament ended up being...

Ireland… Dear EdExcel

… It appears one of your students has written the Eurovision Entry for Ireland this year and deserves to be marked down accordingly. When you...

Romania – Clearly never on a Saturday

The phrase "a nag set to music" was surely coined for this song. Ester seemed to make this feel like hard work and despite...

IVAN in not naked at all shocker!

Yes, that’s right, He promised Wolves and nudity on stage and we have…. a hologram of a nude IVAN and holograms of Wolves. So, now...
Nevena

Et Finalement, Serbia

And to round off one of the hardest (and hottest) days I can ever remember at Eurovision, we came to Serbia ... and boy,...

OK… breath… calm down…

Fuck. Just… Fuck I’m British. I’m also objective with this contest and if the UK is rubbish I am the first one to write it...

Israel – If you are easily offended, look away now

If you’ve stayed and chosen to read this post then carry on. Don’t say you haven’t been warned. I despise this song. I don’t despise...