Semi finals

Gosh it's almost a full house this afternoon for this run through. Nearly had to rolling blog standing up dear reader! Straight into this semi...

I'm in the virtual press centre watching live and letting you know what (if anything) changes and how the acts are pulling their performances...

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

And we're back ... Eurovision Song Contest fans get to settle down for a second 2018 appetizer. Eighteen songs compete for the remaining ten...

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...

Germany, France and Spain voted in this semi-final. Draw Country Language Artist Song Place Points 01 Latvia English PeR "Here We Go" 17 13 02 San Marino Italian Valentina Monetta "Crisalide (Vola)" 11 47 03 Macedonia Macedonian, Romani Esma and Lozano "Pred da se razdeni" (Пред да се раздени) 16 28 04 Azerbaijan English Farid Mammadov "Hold...

Semi Two is much harder! Don’t think I’ll get 9/10 again but here goes.., I think there are three dead certs being Sweden, Azerbaijan and...

From the Macedonian closed rehearsal (um problema technicao) through to the Cypriot feugo, today brought us the second half of the first semi-final. Nobody...

In no particular order ( My arse!) Albania (!), Cyprus, Estonia, Belgium, Austria (poe!), Lithuania, Poland, Australia, Armenia and Slovenia. What do you think of that...

20.35 -  So we are ensconced in the press centre ready and waiting for the First Semi Final Jury Final.  It begins at 21.00...