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Eurovision Insight Podcast: A Rehearsal To Bake Written by on April 28, 2014 | 3 Comments

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Rehearsals are under way, so Ewan and Sam preview the ten acts ready to take to the stage today. Does the staging matter, which songs need to cover up some of the gaps, and which need to be careful to not over-do it?

Joining the Insight team are Danny Lynch (ESC Chat), Liam Clark (EscXtra), and Garrett Mulhall (Eurovision Ireland).

Eurovision Insight Podcast: A Rehearsal To Bake
Hosted by Ewan Spence, with…

Samantha Ross (ESC Insight)
Liam Clark (EscXtra)
Danny Lynch (ESC Chat)
Garrett Mulhall (Eurovision Ireland)

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About The Author: Ewan Spence

British Academy (BAFTA) nominated broadcaster and writer Ewan Spence is the voice behind The Unofficial Eurovision Song Contest Podcast and one of the driving forces behind ESC Insight. Having had an online presence since 1994, he is a noted commentator around the intersection of the media, internet, technology, mobility and how it affects us all. Based in Edinburgh, Scotland, his work has appeared on the BBC, The Stage, STV, and The Times. You can follow Ewan on Twitter (@ewan) and Facebook (facebook.com/ewanspence).

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3 responses to “Eurovision Insight Podcast: A Rehearsal To Bake”

  1. Kevin says:
    April 28, 2014 at 20:17

    I find the remark about Start a Fire that if it was Sweden we would go to Stockholm really weird. To me it feels that if it wasn’t Azerbaijan I wasn’t sure it would qualify. Azerbaijan pretty much always gets more points than it deserves in my opinion.

  2. togravus says:
    April 28, 2014 at 23:17

    Azerbaijan has the best song this year … by a mile.

    I hope that people will vote for songs not flags next week!

  3. Harriet Krohn says:
    April 29, 2014 at 01:50

    I think you have a point about Azerbaijan being the least easily accessible of their entries so far. It’s also the best one, but I’m not sure it has enough instant appeal. But it’s the first time I’m actually rooting for Azerbaijan.

    I also very much agree with Sweden being clinical and formualic. It’s not that I hate it, but it doesn’t get me, it leaves me cold. I hope it won’t win, not only because I think it’s so ESC by numbers, but also because I think it’d be good for the whole contest if we could get far away from that bridge and not just cross it again.

    And I haven’t played Belgium to my mother yet, but I can’t imagine her liking it. I know she likes Elaiza, and that’s very different. Being a mother is not something that generates a common taste in music. I don’t think your sense of aesthetics gets turned around the moment you give birth. 😉 And I don’t know about others, but mother’s day is not a big deal here. It’s just a commercial thing to sell flowers and candies, but it’s really nothing important. Maybe it’s different elsewhere, I don’t know. But I don’t hink it will play a role.