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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.

Tel Aviv

Today at the Games – Day 1 and 2’s Local news...

So, as Daz Sampson so elequently put it, what *did* we learn in school today ... well over the last two days? The answer...

San Marino: Jimmie is a welcome distraction from the song

I missed most of San Marino as I was lusting over Juicy Papi in his press conference, but what I did catch is, well,...

Well the press centre catering has gone downhill

No it's not Edam but it is cheese - yes it's a jumbo sausage roll cos i'm fat and yes it's got a side...

Romania gives us guns, Ukraine gives us head

“I can’t hear my ears!” yells Ilinca from Romania as she starts to yodel at the start of Romania’s rehearsal. There will be those...

Iceland – knock on wood?

Iceland started with a false dawn here in the satellite press centre. They showed about 12 seconds of the girls singing and then moving...

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...

Armenia – I may have been doing something else.

The first time I heard this today I said "Who is this?" - Maybe I wasn't paying attention, maybe they didn't engage me, maybe...

Lithuania do absolutely nothing different …

The best thing that one can say about this song is that there is a stage effect in the last 30 seconds that looks...

Ireland … trying to try?

So, Brendan, what attracted you to the multi-billionaire Louis Walsh? Cos it certainly wasn't the promise of a solo career and a place in the...

Bosnia and Bacofoil….

Now then, the cookbook says 20 minutes per pound and then another 20 minutes resting…well, Europe, Your in luck with this turkey you don’t...