Today Aliona Moon takes to the stage for her first rehearsal in the Malmo Arena for Eurovision 2013. Song writer and last year’s Moldovan performer, Pasha Parfeny plays the piano accompaniment to this haunting ballad. She also has 3 backing dancers who start out on the piano chair […]
Belarus come to the stage with their Summery hope for Eurovision. Alyona starts her Eurovision adventure inside of a giant glitter ball – think Christmas Decoration big enough for the Ukrainian Giant that we saw yesterday. Joined on stage by 2 male dancers a 3 backing dancers. They […]
Roberto Bellarosa of Belgium has come out in place of Lithuania who were due on stage next. So what of “Love Kills” from Roberto. First off he is looking and sounding great. Who can resist a tall dark handsome man in a well cut suit? Roberto’s vocals were […]
Montenegro’s Eurovision Entrants “Who See and Nina” have just taken to the stage for their first Eurovision rehearsal performing their song “Igranka”. I have made no secret of the fact that this is one of my favourite songs in the contest this year and I can tell […]
Several OGAE votes have come out over the past few days and their points have had the effect OGAE Votes OGAE Germany (Second German Votes) 1 point – Ukraine 2 points – United Kingdom 3 points – Sweden 4 points – Hungary 5 points – Italy 6 […]
So we have had the first 8 performances today at the Eurovision 2013 Rehearsals. We have reviewed all of the songs in our earlier articles and now we have videos of the songs to accompany our comments Austria Estonia Slovenia Croatia Russia Ukraine We are still awaiting […]
Anouk took to the stage for The Netherlands, in her first Eurovision rehearsal for 2013. Thankfully no “Angry Birds” here as she was commanding in her performance. Well done Anouk for selecting a Green stage background that looks very impressive. Dressed in a black t-shirt and jeans she looked […]
Ukraine – Eurovision 2013. Photograph courtesy of Facebook Ukraine’s first dress rehearsal at The Malmo Arena for Eurovision 2013. Well there have been a few comedy moments during this first day of rehearsals but nothing registered as highly on the “guffawing with laughter” scale as Zlata being carried […]
Russia’s Dina Garipova has just taken to the stage for her first Eurovision rehearsal and she was – like a Eurovision presenter would say “amazing”. Dina was in a white dress which is laced on the top and chiffon on the bottom. On the stage they have brought […]
The Eurovision 2013 favourite with the book makers – Denmark have just taken to the stage for their first rehearsal. It is exactly the same as they did in the national final. A similar cream dress that is slightly shorter, Emmille is again shoeless and her band members […]
Croatia and the group “Klapa S Mora” take to the stage and the stage is – yes BLUE with a hint of red. Some country needs to look at a rainbow for inspiration. Croatia use that Eurovision Classic Tradition of standing 2 foot away from each other and […]
Hannah takes to the stage with her song “Straight into love” and expectation was high as this semi final needs a boost of adrenaline. Hannah is joined by 3 strapping male dancers – they are strapping as their costumes has that pseudo bondage feel to it. 2 female […]
Estonia take to the stage for their first dress rehearsal and my jaw has just dropped. What are they thinking of?? Birgit is dressed in a white flowing ball gown with some metallic trimming. She looks very pretty when they engage the most important piece of Eurovision technology […]
The stage is dark blue and there are giant lit crystals – that look like they came from Superman’s home of Krypton that stand tall on the stage among Natalia and her backing singers. Half way through the song they defy gravity and rise to the […]
Turkey may not be participating in the Eurovision Song Contest this year but their OGAE Club have cast their votes for Eurovision 2013. Will they be awarding Azerbaijan their 12 points? Let’s take a closer look. OGAE Turkey 1 point – the Netherlands 2 points – Russia 3 […]