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See crowds of fans line up for Paradise Oskar's meet & greet in Eurocafé, get to know which flags sell best and watch out for all the fans cheering for their countries before and after yesterday's semifinal! "The Day in 3 minutes" is a collage of impressions from...
Since Felix has so ably covered the happenings of recent days elsewhere on here, I'm going to keep this quick and to the point with my predictions for tonight's second semi-final qualifiers. Having been distracted by "voting history" last time, I'm going to go with my...
Before I'm talking about flags and predictions, a few words have to be said about yesterday's Euroclub. It was packed, and the DJ from Malta was a disgrace for the place, as he kept playing the same songs over and over again. Even more, he talked constantly...
Due to personal reasons there was no video yesterday morning, but today we're back with full speed, showing your Eurostars performing at the Russian Party at Euroclub yesterday evening. Watch Paradise Oskar, Eli & Nikki, Sjonni's Friends and Glen Vella performing...
Afternoon all! Well, wasn't that a night last night? So many paradigm shifts, so many things we learned and re-learned anew. Armenia and Turkey don't have a guaranteed place in the final and will be punished for uncharismatic performances of average songs. Switzerland...
As promised, a quick post with my predictions for the ten qualifiers tonight. After watching the final dress rehearsal this afternoon, I'm going for: Norway, Albania, Armenia, Turkey, Russia, Georgia, Finland, Lithuania, Azerbaijan and Greece. Whatever happens and...
"The Day in 3 minutes" is still a bit too short, but hey - we got a message from Getter for you! The other highlight of today's video is Nadine Beiler performing "The Secret Is Love" on the dutch ship at the banks of the Rhine river. Enjoy the mediterranean atmosphere...
This year, everything is extraordinarily bizarre. It's my 1st complete day in Düsseldorf, and it's the Semi 1 already tomorrow. Now, how did that happen? Don't ask me. It's summer, it's partytime, it's old friends having a chat and new friends in the making, so that's...
Hello and welcome to the press centre for the first dress rehearsal of the first semi-final for the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest! This is the one dress rehearsal where the arena is open to the press, but since there's no wi-fi over there, I'll be blogging it from in...
Düsseldorf impressions on a daily basis are now served to you by #esccam, our video project. Every morning there will be a new video online. We actually wanted to start this tomorrow, but I had the unique chance to get Lena on my camera today, so this is an exception....
I arrived in town to stay! However, already yesterday, I spent my first hour being lost at the central station without a clue of how to get where I wanted to get. So I just went to Euroclub instead, which was quite well visited. The Henkel Saal was opened, so...
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