Eurovision 2024: Rehearsal Week (1 Viewer)

[Soldi]

Starting TOMORROW. Here’s the schedule for this weekend.



There’s an official live blog on REDDIT of all places. Are they still ploughing on with TikTok for another year?

 

[Lucille]

 

[Kratz]

Are the auto-qualifiers rehearsing at the same time?

 

[Inner Smile]

Kratz what you doing on at this time? Get to bed

 

[Penelope]

Oh thank HEAVENS

 

[Penelope]

Kratz what you doing on at this time? Get to bed

He's been THERE SINCE 7!

 

[Inner Smile]

He's been THERE SINCE 7!

I've been THERE SINCE 6!

 

[Dark Carnival]

What? Already? I’m so behind

 

[Dark Carnival]

I haven’t even done my Eurovision Sorter yet!

 

[Lucille]

Kratz what you doing on at this time? Get to bed

He’s CAN’T SLEEP because he’s TOO EXCITED bless him.

 

[Kratz]

He’s CAN’T SLEEP because he’s TOO EXCITED bless him.

It’s TRUE!

I’m also jet-lagged. Poor me.

And will somebody PLEASE answer my question. Y’all don’t want me going to Wiwi for answers.

 

[Penelope]

It’s TRUE!

I’m also jet-lagged. Poor me.

And will somebody PLEASE answer my question. Y’all don’t want me going to Wiwi for answers.

By the looks of things NO they are not

 

[Soldi]

Live blog here

Cyprus
Silia is only 17, but she’s owning this stage like performing in a huge arena is a walk in the park. The gold lamé costume from the official video has been replaced with trousers and a crop top in sparkly white, with four male backing dancers in cargo pants and baggy white t-shirts. No stage props, but lots of swirly green and red graphics on the LED backdrop and floor.

Fans of Silia's dancing will be happy to hear that this performance has a high energy routine and a huge dance break before the bridge into the final chorus - just the kind of upbeat number we need to get the party started on May 7th.

Also should mention that the dancers pull their shirts off in the final chorus. Sorry not to mention that sooner, we were looking the other way

 

[Lucille]

Love that we’re opening the semi-final with a SLUTTY STAGE SHOW from a 17 year old!

 

[VoR]

 

[Madison]

They’ve gone to a lot of effort to mic up those backs.

 

[Kratz]

They’ve gone to a lot of effort to mic up those backs.

It’s the lowest of hanging fruit. May as well grab it.

Hi MAE

 

[VoR]

Serbia apparently much like the national finals performance, but with lots of smoke machine/dry ice effects.

 

[Marina Salty]

Silia with four Victor Vernicoses

 

[Penelope]

Love that we’re opening the semi-final with a SLUTTY STAGE SHOW from a 17 year old!

It's how JOAN OF ARC won the HUNDRED YEARS WAR

 

[Kratz]

Love that we’re opening the semi-final with a SLUTTY STAGE SHOW from a 17 year old!

Feeling like you’re back in Sixth Form?

 

[Penelope]

Serbia apparently much like the national finals performance, but with lots of smoke machine/dry ice effects.

KILL IT!

 

[VoR]

 

[Kratz]

The polystyrene rock formations are a nice touch

 

[VoR]

I don't dislike it, but of the very strong opening seven from Semi Final One, Serbia is the one I'd miss least if it got knocked out.

 

[Dark Carnival]

What a whole lotta

 

[Lucille]

The polystyrene rock formations are a nice touch

Omg I was going to say what a fake looking rock but thought I was being overly critical.

 

[VoR]

Lithuania also sticking to the national final theme, with lots of strobe lights and dancing.

 

[Kratz]

I’m perched for whenever we get Malta

 

[Lucille]

Get a real rock, they are literally just LYING AROUND THERE FOR THE TAKING.

 

[Lucille]

I’m perched for whenever we get Malta

YA’LL AIN’T READY FOR THIS!

 

[Dark Carnival]

Lithuania also sticking to the national final theme, with lots of strobe lights and dancing.

Oh. I was hoping for a little upgrade.

 

[Lucille]

Lithuania’s stage show is kind of perfect already but!

 

[Kratz]

YA’LL AIN’T READY FOR THIS!

She was in LONDON?! Why didn’t she tell me?

 

[Lucille]

She was in LONDON?! Why didn’t she tell me?

Imagine you’re just walking down the Regent’s canal and you encounter a wild Sarah Bonnici.

 

[VoR]

 

[VoR]

Bambie is inside a circle of candles, wearing a black dress with a tutu skirt and shoulder horns. Their usual dramatic white face makeup is topped with hair styled into antlers. There’s also a bare-chested dancer giving centaur vibes, who accompanies Bambie in some balletic choreography.

In the final section the candle circle raises up, and the big screamo finish concludes with a graphic backdrop of CROWN THE WITCH. Pure Eurovision theatre, and testament to the diversity of musical styles we're going to see at Eurovision this year.

OMG at CROWN THE WITCH

 

[Soldi]

DUBLIN 2025

 

[dUb]

Love a SCREAMO FINISH

I am a lamb after all

 

[VoR]

PYRO UPDATE: In the final run-through there is both low-level ground smoke throughout, AND our first flame jets of the day, right at the end. We are twenty metres from the stage and can feel the heat.