Moldova rehearsal and press conference

Geta starts her song by sitting on a couch whilst a man with a trumpet in hand is seated next to her on the floor. No other performers are on the stage for this song.
The musical structure of the song has been changed to include some additional jazz elements.

Geta Burlacu - A century of love -rehearsal



Press conference

Geta Burlacu asked by journalists about the staging of her entry, revealed that she chose to perform with just the trumpet player with her on stage, because he is the man she loves and she aims at an intimate performance, which would be ruined were there also other people on stage.
The arrangement of A Century Of Love was changed to fit a television performance, she admitted, however she is still proud to present her entry in an unusual way, considering Eurovision standards.


sources:esctoday.com;oikotimes.com;12points.tv

Estonia rehearsal and press conference

The blondy female dancers are waving the Estonian, Serbian, German & Finnish flags on stage.
The band jump and prance around the stage shouting the song rather than singing and the grand finale features a cheerleading style finish with a pyramid of blondes above our slightly oversized gentlemen.
The performance is similar to that in Eurolaul (Estonian national selection). The song is a mixture of languages.

Estonia rehearsal: Leto Svet



Press conference

The different languages used in Kreisiraadio's entry were brought up in the band's press conference. Peeter answered "Finnish is because they are our good neighbours, German as they share big historic traditions, and Serbo Croatian as they are the host country, we think that next year lets say Greece should sing in Serbo Croatian and other countries sing in different mixtures of languages!".

sources:esctoday.com;oikotimes.com;eurovision.tv

Israel rehearsal and press conference

Boaz Mauda had a very good rehearsal. Great stage performance along with his backing vocal. The song "Fire in your eyes" is performed in Hebrew throughout apart from one line in English.


Rehearsal and reactions of Boaz



Press conference

The delegation spoke of how pleased they were to have someone with Boaz's talents representing them this year. They also commented on the strength of the Swedish entry this year, saying that they were singing it in corridors! Needless to say they like that song, as well as the Swiss, Serbian and Romanian entries. Boaz revealed that in the next press conference he will be accompanied by Dana International (ESC 1998 winner), who is one of his song composers.


sources:esctoday.com;oikotimes.com;eurovision.tv

Montenegro: Rehearsal and press conference

Stepfan Filiovic was the first performer to take the stage on the stunning Eurovision stage this morning. Appearing with four female backing dancers gave a strong vocal performance for this song Zauvijek Voliim.

Montenegro: Rehearsal and reactions



Press conference

The delegation of Montenegro talked about how the country is the newest to enter Eurovision (in terms of how long it's actually been a country, not been entering Eurovision) country. They talked about Stefan and then took questions from the audience. They declared themselves very satisfied with the first rehearsal and Stefan spoke about his decision not to sing in English but in his native language. He claimed that boosting his career in the countries of South-Eastern Europe was more important to him than achieving a top ranking in the Contest.


sources:esctoday.com;oikotimes.com;eurovision.tv

Welcome Party at the White Palace 18th May

eurovision.tv reports:


The City of Belgrade will organize the Welcome Party for its Eurovision Song Contest guests at the White Palace on the 18th of May, starting at 21:00. The Royal Family will host the participants and delegation heads at a reception in the lead up to the Welcome Party.

Before the Welcome Party, between 18:30 and 20:30, Their Royal Highnesses Crown Prince Alexander II and Crown Princess Katherine will be hosts of the contestants of the Eurovision Song Contest and their Heads of Delegation.

The Welcome Party, initially scheduled to take place at the Kalemegdan park, will now take place at on of the royal palaces of Serbia.

At the White Palace of the Karađorđević Dynasty, the distinguished guests will have the opportunity to enjoy folk dances performed by the Academic Folk Ensemble Lola and thus be able to get to know dancing tradition of Serbia.

During the reception, a fashion show of Serbian national costumes will begiven as well.

Eurovision entry composer speaks against Serbia

oikotimes.com reports:

The late events in Spain are overpassing borders, and all drama is little compared to reality.As you have probably recently read we have witnessed how Spanish journalists and TV personas are attacking the festival in its most direct ways. First by choosing an entrant which is far from what music means, and lately by accusing Massiel of winning 1968 contest because of Franco's cheating.

The latest events are by no means much more aggressive; thus Spanish TV presenter, Andreu Buenafuente (creator of this year's entrant Rodolfo Chikilicuatre), in his late night show makes fun of the situation Serbia (no need to remind: this year's host) has had to undertake the past decade[....]

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Dima Bilan - Creer (Believe in Spanish)

"I want my song, which has such beautiful words and such a magical message to be comprehended by most people. That is why we decided to make it also in Spanish – one of the most widespread languages in the world" - Dima Bilan