Semi 1: Five bets to consider
With tonight's first semi-final fast approaching, it's time to take a look at some of the betting options available to you for tonight's show. Most of the betting sites are offering pretty similar odds for the various markets this year, meaning there's little in the...
Semi 1: The escgo! team’s predictions
Tonight sees the first semi-final of the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest, and it's time for the escgo! team to predict which ten of the 16 candidates they think will progress to Saturday's grand final! Felix is still in Vienna, taking in everything live, and Martin has...
First Dress Rehearsal of Semi-Final One
This post is now in chronological order. 14:40 The final week of Eurovision 2015 has arrived, and my escgo colleague MartinF has left into a well deserved holiday, after been on blogging duty throughout the first week. This means, you will now have to do with me...
Live Rehearsals Day 7 – Italy to Australia
So, with that terribly useful "anything could happen" verdict on Australia, that's the end of my live blogging from Vienna! But fear not - I'll be here throughout the next week with predictions, betting tips and suchlike, and more importantly, Felix will be...
Live Rehearsals Day 6 – Iceland to Poland
And that, dear friends, completes our journey through the second semi-final! Are you any closer to knowing who the ten qualifiers will be? I'm not entirely sure I am, but we're getting there, slowly but surely. And by early afternoon tomorrow we will definitely have...
Live Rehearsals Day 6 – Portugal to Azerbaijan
And that completes our second blog post of the day! Join us very shortly for the run through from Iceland all the way to Poland. We'll be here for you, here for you. AZERBAIJAN The opening shot is now a side-on view of Elnur and his werewolf-like high note, only...
Live Rehearsals Day 6 – Lithuania to Norway
And that completes the first part of today's rehearsals, and hence this particular blog post. We break for lunch for an hour now, and in that time I'm going to do something particularly radical and un-press-centre-like: I'm going to go and sit in the sunshine for a...
Live Rehearsals Day 5 – Russia to Georgia
So there we have it! The second rehearsals of the first semi-final are complete, and now all that remains is for us to tidy up our stuff and head out for the evening. The San Marino and Nordic parties await (apparently there are separate gatherings for Montenegro and...
Live Rehearsals Day 5 – Estonia to Belarus
And that completes the middle section of today's rehearsals - join us here for the second set of run-throughs from Russia through to Georgia! BELARUS After the first run-through, I asked our desk if they could answer a simple question: "What is time like? Clue: The...
Live Rehearsals Day 5 – Moldova to Greece
And that completes our live blog from the "morning session" in Vienna. Join us here as the afternoon continues with Estonia! GREECE I believe it's important to be scrupulously honest as a blogger, so here's the naked truth: I'm buggering off to film a little section...
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Flags conquering Düsseldorf / predictions for semi 2
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...
Video: Eurovision stars perform at Euroclub
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...
Dress Rehearsal, May 11th – LIVE!
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...
Prediction, May 10th – It’s Showtime!
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...
Video: A message from Getter Jaani
"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...
Sunshine, 27°C and Getter
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...
Dress Rehearsal, May 9th – LIVE!
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...
“The Day in 3 minutes” launched: impressions from Düsseldorf
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....
Taken by a Dorf: Shemales and ships
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...
FelixK’s review on the Big 5 rehearsals
Last morning in Cologne! I already attended the Euroclub yesterday, and I don't know how I will spend this day having slept only for 3 hours and moving to a new hotel etc., but you'll read more in my real Düsseldorf Blog from this afternoon on! And what do you do on a...
Rehearsals, May 8th – LIVE!
Welcome to the last day of open rehearsals for the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest! After today, we're into dress rehearsal territory, with the first full run-through of semi-final 1 starting at 15:00 CET tomorrow. In terms of our coverage over the next week,...
Feel Your Eurovision Beat… in Cologne!
In my little series of talking Eurovision life in other german cities, it's now Cologne's turn! I want to avoid talking in categories, but the fact that Cologne is Germany's gay capital isn't really contraproductive when it comes to ESC parties, is it? 😉 So let's see...
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SongHunt 2017 finalist presentation: “Wild Child” by Ace Wilder
Ace Wilder could be in Kyiv now, representing Sweden with her song “Wild Child”. But our SongHunt rules only allow songs that didn’t win their national finals, but got a lot of love in our Eurovision chat. This love took the song to the heats, the quarter-finals, the...
Ten countries qualify from semi-final 1
The first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 is over - and ten songs have qualified for the grand final on Saturday. These are: Moldova: Sunstroke Project - Hey Mamma "Epic Sax Guy" is back, and takes the country to the final after three...
ESC 2017: These are the escgo! predictions for tonight’s semi-final 1!
The first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 is just a few hours away, and so it’s time for us in the escgo! team to predict the ten qualifiers for the grand final on Saturday.
Semi 1: Three bets to consider
Martin turns his gambler’s eye to the first semi-final of ESC 2017 and picks out some interesting bets that might be worth a look.
The View from San Francisco – Second Semi Final, Second Rehearsals
From all the way in the USA, our Shi turns her attention to the second rehearsals of the second semi-finalists in her regular long read.
Download and print your voting sheet for the first semi-final
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SongHunt 2017 finalist presentation: “Make Your Way Back Home” by Rúnar Eff
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Stage verdict: Lithuania, Estonia and Israel
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