ESC United - Rehearsal and Live Show discussion megathread

[Sean]

It's time for the rehearsals to finally get underway for Eurovision 2024 at Malmö Arena! 37 countries will begin their preparations for this year's contest today, with over two weeks of coverage to come from the ESC United team on the ground!

The schedule for rehearsals is below (thank you Eurovisionworld! All times in CEST);

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You can check out Matt's pre-rehearsal live stream below in case you missed it;

DAY ONE

Eurovision 2024 Rehearsals - Day 1 Round-Up Live Stream

Join Matt and his team as they discuss the rehearsals of the day and answer your questions. The first dress rehearsal is closed to the press so we'll be here...

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Please also use this thread for any rehearsal coverage and discussion, including for jury shows, dress rehearsals and the live shows!​

 

[soulm8]

Yeah Slimane's vocals were bad, could even hear in arena

Just like Gjon in 2021 jury rehearsal. Slimane sure sang too much lately, still believe in jury top 3 result. I heard the video with the moment his voice cracked, wasn’t the best scenario for sure, it sounded raw and emotional at least, he will still get those jury votes as much as the haters are hoping otherwise.

 

[esc87fan]

ROW vote start has been delayed until 02:00 CET

 

[AlekS]

Greece gave Cyprus 12 pts even in the fake voting

Did people boo Österdahl at the beginning of the voting?

 

[ekzuu]

Greece gave Cyprus 12 pts even in the fake voting

Did people boo Österdahl at the beginning of the voting?

Yes when he was asked about validity of results

 

[AlekS]

Italy gave 12 to Israel

 

[NeoTen]

Greece gave Cyprus 12 pts even in the fake voting

Did people boo Österdahl at the beginning of the voting?

Yep. The guy's been in crisis talks for like 14 hours straight. Poor man.

 

[AlekS]

@ekzuu Thanks to Estonia for blue and yellow. Unless they meant Swedish flag

 

[AlekS]

spokesperson refused to say that they gave 12 pts to Israel and said Ireland instead.
Österdahl announced correct points in the end.

 

[Preuss]

How did Italy and Ukraine do tonight?? Vocally that is

 

[AlekS]

How did Italy and Ukraine do tonight?? Vocally that is

Ukraine - their best performance out of all days. Jerry didn't sing lower in the beginning, she went with her usual voice. Vocalizing was a little bit different (higher) and cleaner. More confident. Alyona also performed her best try.

Italy was ok, but she screwed up a little bit in the end. Shaky & screamy. France & Italy performed worse than in the semi, if you talk about vocals. But France obviously worse. Italy will do ok.

 

[SirPeterGriffin]

Iolanda about to be a surprising jury winner with the way things are going. She's gunning for that Proud moment. *insert Olivia Wilde nodding gif*

 

[NeoTen]

How did Italy and Ukraine do tonight?? Vocally that is

I thought Italy way better than others here. She has a very clear voice from holding the mic quite close. Pin me on this: top 5 in juries tomorrow.

 

[NemesisNick]

My review of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 Second Semi-Final is now available on my blog, 24 hours later than expected or wanted. Sorry for the delay again. When reading the main part, read it as if you had seen it during the voting window. This includes my desired qualifiers, predicted qualifiers and the actual qualifiers, and my points of view on the qualifiers.

]Eurovision Song Contest 2024 Second Semi-Final

 

[Preuss]

I hope both Italy and Ukraine in the top 5 tomorrow please

 

[AlekS]

Jokes aside, Portugal was good, actually. I won't be surprised if the jury puts her 6th.

 

[NeoTen]

Georgia won the jury show! Tbilisi doest border Russia right? Oh it does? Oh. Only one thing left for today: are they gonna include JK in the delayed ROW voting when it opens in an hour? when we have that, we can go to sleep.

 

[AlekS]

They are playing Ireland as the winning song

 

[NeoTen]

They are playing Ireland as the winning song

You know what's humour: they still gave the UK last place in the jury show.

 

[Himan]

I've been to a chess tournament today van someone tell me what happened today. Short please.

 

[Mango_]

Hi guys, I'm new here and not so great how Eurovision works. I saw that they gave false votes, why are they doing this?
And then I wanted to ask you what you think the situation is like in Italy