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Happy Eurovision Week, everyone! Today, the first (and second) dress rehearsal will be held, which leads us to the first highlight of our on-site coverage: The rolling blog and live chat directly from Baku! So what's our plan? At 15:00 CET our editor Danny will report...
Can you believe we're here already? It hardly feels like a moment since Rambo Amadeus christened the Baku stage with a massive cardboard donkey last weekend, and now we've reached the end of the technical rehearsals for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest. At a personal...
Salam! We've arrived in the Press Centre a little later than we'd planed (blame the free alcohol at the Welcome Party last night) but we are in time to see the Big 5 plus Azerbaijan do their second dress rehearsal. We're particuarly looking forward to seeing France...
So we got to the end of the first week, and today saw a few highlights: The Big 5 + the host country were rehearsing for the first time, and thanks to our editor Danny, we had our first ever interview on esc-chat.com - in which the Slovenian entrant Eva Boto spoke...
We were lucky to interview the absolutely lovely Eva Boto from Slovenia earlier this afternoon after her second rehearsal today, for the first EVER interview esc-chat.com have ever done! She has become a bit of a favourite of ours so we were really pleased to sit down...
Hello again peeps! Another day dawns in Baku and the Eurofun begins again. Friday was esc-chat.com's first proper day in Baku and we were up early to get to the press centre to catch some of the rehearsals! We managed to see the run throughs of quite a few songs, and...
How is it day 6 already? Anyway, it's been the first day for esc-chat.com in Baku, meaning, our new editor Danny began his work in the press centre today. He also started his daily diary blog. He will have a new post for each day, which will get updated every now and...
17:26 So as you have seen, I've finally arrived in sunny Baku! I landed yesterday at 3.30pm from Dubai on a flight where apart from an Australian girl who was also here for Eurovision, I was the only non Azeri on the flight! but didn't get to my accommodation until...
Salam! (That's Azeri for hello, btw) esc-chat .com have arrived in a rather warm Baku! After a rather eventful journey from the airport which took 4 hours (more on that later) I finally got to my accomodation. I was up bright and breezy(ish) this morning in time for...
Day 5 in Baku, and today saw the start of what you might call the "hard work" phase of the rehearsal fortnight. If the first rehearsals are all about getting the initial camerawork and technicalities right, and the dress rehearsals are there for fine-tuning, then it's...
Hello again peeps! I’m heading off to Baku tomorrow morning, (yay!) but before I do, here’s my rundown of the first rehearsals from Semi Final 2, and my predictions for who will qualify. These are based on one watch only, and as before, are subject to drastic changes!...
Day 4 in Baku, and today's rehearsal schedule included easily the most hotly-awaited performance from the runaway favourite with fans and bookmakers alike. But more about Donny Montell later. First, we take a look at the nine songs that preceded his appearance on the...
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