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Health and Safety is top priority...
Rotterdam Ahoy has lots of Health and Safety wardens checking our every move, ensuring we're socially distanced, and handing out more masks than a Scooby Doo villains convention.

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we also got our first eurovision romance of the year


Norway's Tix seems to have a little crush at Azerbaijan's Efendi


apparently he posted a song on insta especially for her, i heard just now on wiwibloggs livestream

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Latvia is good food for the gays


Samanta ''Girlboss'' Tina is slaying it in her first rehearsal, and the visors are BACK from still breathing

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https://eurovision.tv/story/lets-get-technical-1

here's a nice article regarding the technical aspects which have made this eurovision song contest possible

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Switzerland now, he is contemporary dancing at same time of singing


prop he got is a big chair

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last up to rehearse

And finally for today’s rehearsal schedule, and wrapping up the second Semi-Final on Thursday, is Denmark’s Fyr Og Flamme singing Řve os pĺ hinanden. Apparently this means ‘Practice on each other’, and this has a very big ‘80s disco vibe.

We’d like to think that a band called ‘fire and flame’ would go all out on the pyro, but we'll just have to be patient and wait for the final run-through.

. ''source eurovision.tv live blog''

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second rehearsals of semi final 1 today


tomorrow first rehearsal of Big 5 + hosts netherlands

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from Lithuania to Ukraine second rehearsals of the day (australia one more sneak tease from their LOT)


Malta will rehearse tomorrow morning earliest instead of today afternoon (which is perfectly allowed since we got no one else tomorrow except big 5, host)

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tomorrow will be even busier


last of semi 1 Malta second rehearsal, the automatic finalists (big 5 & host) first rehearsal, and majority of semi 2 second rehearsal (rounding that up on friday)

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Lithuania: changed nothing compared to first rehearsal

Slovenia: few edits to the graphics, more visible connection for the ''planet earth and each light spot represents a person'' but Ana isn't bringing it enough, gospel songs like this require oomph, more divinity less grocery shopping, in wiwi's william his words

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Russia: again a very awesome rehearsal pro-women pro-lgbt bop remains such a wonderful surprise from russian, and the russian folk/hiphop combo is a wonderful delight to listen to and that staging amazing, winner vibes

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Spoiler:

everyone of press ignoring australia

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today last day of acts arriving in rotterdam, ahoy (big 5)


turqoise carpet ceremony on sunday, also livestream feed of that of course via youtube with chat

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Australia: not bad, shame she isn't in ahoy, thx to stupid SBS and whoever dumb enough advised them not to travel, since we do everything and more for health and safety, we got stewards walking around all day long, we got computerized advice too every half hour telling people to be aware of social distance from crew and audience


Sweden: mediocre at best lol

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Youtube video

sneak preview of australia's live on tape

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Ukraine is rehearsing today with a stand in singer, their lead vocalist is feeling unwell this morning

so more out of precaution being tested for covid-19

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also remaining Go_A members will attend their press conference as normal either


so i'm thinking it is more a precaution

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ah, Kateryna has posted on social media

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press poll of today


minus Malta (so they won't receive press points feedback tomorrow)

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update on Ukraine: as far as i know what i read on escunited ukraine thread, some posted some of Kateryna's insta stories of today there

apparently what she had was something to do with her mouth, some pains which she got medication for she is feeling a lot better now (was also singing the entry while brushing her teeth this morning again)


the PCR covid test more out of precautionary measure of course since everyone immediately thinks of covid if someone is not feeling well

septefril-darnitsa is what the medication is called

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so they are now more waiting for the PCR test result to come, nervous times

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https://eurovision.tv/live-blog-thursday-13-may

good news for Ukraine, Kateryna's PCR test came back negative, she is covid free

also pcr tests are way more accurate than rapid antigen tests



wishing her a speedy recovery with whatever she had then, already happy for her she is feeling much better than yesterday

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Youtube video

Poland revamp


bit more smoother, more polished, even better than it already was


serving us the weeknd vibes all over

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UK first rehearsal yesterday, i must say i quite like the look of its staging


red backdrop, James is on a higher platform with two huge trumpets on left and right side from him, the dancers are in front of him with normal trumpets playbacking to the chorus instrumentals

he sounded quite good either

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on Sunday we got turqoise carpet ceremony, hosted by Koos van Plateringen and ZAPP presenter Fenna Ramos (she is a children's tv host, singer)

also rotterdam mayor Aboutaleb will be there

no fans allowed to come, press cannot interview the acts, but they can film and take photos


at the erasmus bridge


all to be followed live on eurovision channel 18:00 CEST (17:00 UK time)

Youtube video

https://eurovision.tv/story/sunday-t...se-carpet-live