Time to round up the stories that have caught our eye in the last twenty four hours of The Eurovision Song Contest. From power and odds, to charts, from on the ground in the press centre and arena rehearsals, to out in the parties and the streets, we are looking for the news – this is your snack sized view of Baku.
If you’ve a story for The List, then get in touch and we’ll take a look.
Sweden comes 2nd
This year, Australian broadcaster SBS is allowing local fans to give the ‘thumbs up’ or ‘thumbs down’ to each of the entries throughout the Eurovision period. As it stands, the winners with 86% ‘like’ is not in fact Sweden, but one of their Nordic neighbours – click here to see which one the Aussies are currently tipping for the win.
Looking back at the second semi rehearsals
The not-so-entirely-Irish team at Allkindsofeverything.ie over the rehearsal period regularly update us with their own tips for qualifications. On this report, they look back at the second semi final and give their opinions on potential winners for the 2012 contest.
Eurovision fans rejoice! The party season has begun!
This is the day that we’ve all been waiting for. No, its not Saturday 26th May, but it is one of the first and also one of the most anticipated parties of the Eurovision season –Georgia, taking place at Euroclub this evening. When asked in the press conferences about their infamous parties, the delegation acknowledged the importance of the event, not only in promoting their entry, but in promoting their own country. Trend.az reports that the party will feature some local delicasies, and of course, their wonderful wine.
Jedward & Trackshittaz are jumping in the deep end
Whilst the press and technical crew are hard at work in the Crystal Hall surrounds, some are even more lucky and are escaping the heat with a little pool party. Increasingly firm friends Jedward from Ireland, and the Trackshittaz from Austria got together yesterday for some watersports, a little bit of singing and some shaking of their asses.
Eurovision attacked by hackers
A number of Eurovision websites across the internet were locally attacked by an unknown group, including our friends at allkindsofeverything.ie, and the official Azeri website eurovision.az. The group responsible are claiming that this is in protest to the influx of gay attendees to Eurovision in Azerbaijan, and it was reported by news.az, that the issues experienced is eminating from Iran. We are aware that for many websites that this just local denial of service, including escinsight.com, however, Esctoday.com shamefully was taken out completely, with their server being wiped and thus losing 12 years of archival footage from our favourite contest.
What has happened today with the attacks on websites is horrendous. We were incredibly sadly when we heard about the total wipeout of esctoday and the attacks on other websites. Eurovision is an event that is supposed to bring people together not tear them apart.
Fully agree with Anthony there. What has happened is an appalling attack on an ordinary website. I am terribly sorry for what happened to Esctoday. I never believed that I would ever read the words “we will not be stopped” in the context of Eurovision.
I am utterly disgusted at what has happened to my regular ESC haunt. This is the first of many bad things likely to happen between now and the end of the contest. I hope ESC is never in Azerbaijan again.
Damien,
I disagree. The whole point of the attack is to keep Eurovision away from Azerbaijan. If ECS never came back to Azerbaijan because of this, then the terrorists win!