Another whirl around the Eurovision web-scape to find out what’s catching the eye of the press here in Malmo in our Eurovision List.
We Don’t Need No Access
An interesting idea from Eurovision Lemurs, around the restricted access the press have had this year to the first round of ‘tech’ rehearsals in the malmo Arena. As it stands the press received a video feed, but no access to the stadium to let the artists work on the show, but the Lemurs think they should go further and stop all access to the first tech, and perhaps even the second tech as well.
Their arguments are online, what do you think?
Where are we going on May 17th?
EscXtra covered the joint EBU/SVT press conference this year, with notable announcements including the provision dates for ESC 2014 (May 13/15/17); a look at the postcards and intermission videos; changes to the running order; and the draw procedure for the Big Five’s slot in the Grand FInal.
Who’s Got Balls?
Wonk, who are putting on a number of Eurovision based performances this week including Alcazar and Carola have taken delivery of 54 glitter balls. So that’s 52 cards and two jokers. Place your bets now who the unlucky two will be…
The best San Marino song… in the world
On Europe have another viewpoint on the Ralph Siegel’s combination song for San Marino… “It’s the Aural equivalent of a Land Rover without a syncromesh gear box, or imagine a woman trying to shift up and Jeremy Clarkson saying ‘It’s in there somewhere, love’.”
The Lemurs do have a little bit of a point about how quick fans (and some fan sites) pick up and amplify every single mistake. But this shouldn’t mean that access to rehearsals should be completely blocked.
Yes, there maybe technical hiccups and things wrong with lighting or camera angles or other bits of staging. But as far as the singing goes, they only have 6 or 7 tries left on the stage. Ignoring the tiny little vocal mistakes we’ll usually get, if they can’t sing the song well by now, they never will.
So I would argue that what we had with escxtra on day 1 was correct by hiding the visuals while they work the kinks out but giving us full audio. And as long as the delegations know this will happen in advance, then they do their job properly and make sure the performance is spot-on before getting to the arena. Or, and here’s a revolutionary idea, they could choose someone who can sing instead of someone who needs to hide their lack of talent behind flashy visuals. Either way, we win. 😀