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!​

 

[aef]

The thing is y’all can’t just take song/ performance into consideration. You need to think a lot about the countries biggest voting supporters. That’s a fact that plays an even bigger role in the SF than in the final. for example still has good chances because they’ll get high points from countries like anyway. That’s like a guaranteed ~25 points they’ll get anyway. Do counties like or have that? No. So the battle they are fighting is way harder.

 

[ollibox]

GOOOD EVENING EVERYONE!!!!

 

[AlekS]

There were major technical sound issues on the 2nd dress rehearsal (especially for Spain, Albania, Denmark, Belgium), so I'm wondering how everyone will sound tonight.
Spain had like 2 botched rehearsals, so I wish them all the best specifically. Nobody deserves to go through that (comes from our 2021 experience).

 

[JChan]

nothing gets me more hyped than the Te Deum theme

 

[Irish Cameltoe]

I've seen al TV versions. Malta - maybe. San Marino - not sure.

San Marino could have... in 2007.

 

[HarryUK]

Won't it stop you when you try to input British bank details?

Damn it I should have got my colleagues based in North America to vote for Austria

 

[JChan]

well credit to SVT for making a skit that made me laugh at something Malin did

 

[Stargazer]

Love it! This is the kind of humorous opening I was missing in Semi 1! Much better.

 

[HarryUK]

The France skit just made me spit my wine out

 

[ollibox]

I know there's a separate thread for predictions but - "No Rules", remember?
So, my prediction of the NQs of this semi:

SAN MARINO (Sad, but true...)
ALBANIA (Sad, but also true...)
DENMARK (Very possible)
LATVIA (Quite possible, but I hope they qualify)
MALTA (Unfortunately, possible)
GEORGIA (It's good, but I'd prefer Czechia more to qualify)

Let's see! Have a good show, everyone!

 

[AliceEsc]

Nice opener.

 

[Citelis]

Malta great performance but song remains bad.

 

[Jay25]

Sus!

 

[lasse braun]

malta no song BUTT...

 

[Etanna]

that was one hell of an opening! great job maltaa! It would be a very deserved qualifier (despite the song being rather average)

 

[JChan]

wow what a way to open the show. i gasped when they did that flip... her head was disturbingly close to the floor

 

[Zorjan]

I didn't think Malta had any chance of qualifying... Now I'm not so sure... Very impressive performance!

 

[Iker]

Malta didn't do anything for me, the stage performance was similar to what was presented in her NF. My grandma with which I watch this SF described it with a word "tragedia/tragedy"

 

[cassio]

Albania

 

[jatojo]

Albania going for the pop sound - unfortunately, success in Eurovision in the 2020's doesn't go through mid-tempo pop.