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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

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todays rehearsals are round up of second rehearsals of second half semi 2


Georgia: good vocals again, some changes to staging, more lavalamp effect with visual lyrics of ''my love'' in english and georgian

Albania: huge staging changes, they elevated the staging more compared to 1st rehearsal, she held back on vocals this time around

Portugal: stunning stunning vocal performance, staging feels like a ''michael schulte germany 2018'' moment, is definitely the surprise of this year, very lovely charming ballad with soulful, jazzy vocals

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Bulgaria: going to be a visual magic moment this one, song wise if you like taylor swift's current albums folklore, evermore you'll enjoy this too loads, others compare to billie eilish but i compare this more to that from taylor


also usage of real sand pouring down from ceiling, and a huge rock where she is standing on

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also Victoria goes through lots of emotions currently as well


her dad whom she is really close with, always been a hard working guy, he had been diagnosed with ALS


so performing this song ''growing up is getting old'' gives that even more of an emotional impact

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Finland: great solid rock song, good simplistic rock concert vibe staging

Latvia: beautiful backdrop in gold, very nice quirky green outfits, Samanta is a true slayage queen, downpart her vocals aren't as clean at all times

Switzerland: quite a disaster staging wise and cringey dancing/hand movements lol a favourite?


now only denmark left whose second rehearsal clip needs to be uploaded

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we're getting a announcement coming up this evening on eurovision.tv

the way they teased it so mysteriously, some news



i think of Ilse DeLange being confirmed for a role of some sort in the show, since i've followed the news regarding her last few days now

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Originally Posted by Nicky91

we're getting a announcement coming up this evening on eurovision.tv

the way they teased it so mysteriously, some news



i think of Ilse DeLange being confirmed for a role of some sort in the show, since i've followed the news regarding her last few days now

Was it the American Song Contest announcement? I made a new thread about it

https://www.thisisbigbrother.com/for...d.php?t=375531