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A lazy Sunday morning here in Copenhagen, with just six acts taking to the stage. We’ll cover them tomorrow on the podcast (but naturally a bit of Molly is going to sneak in at the end of the podcast). Today is time to look back at the last tech rehearsals of the second semi-final.
A familiar sight on the Maltese Eurovision site, Richard Edwards and his sister Michelle Mifsud are part of Firelight. Representing Malta at this year’s Song Contest I caught up with them to find out about their musical past, Firelight, and the song ‘Coming Home’ in another ‘In-Depth Insight’.
In the pre-Eurovision burst of media activity, one artist gets the biggest attention in the Press Conference and gets the attention of those involved in the international newspapers as well. Her name is Conchita Wurst, and the character played by Tom Neuwirth is the act everybody is writing about. Ben Robertson investigates what is being said, and what the impact is likely to be in the contest for Conchita next week.
Sometimes the skill of an interviewer is to work through a translator. And normally ESC Insight’s Senior Interviewer can cope with that. But has Terry Vision met his match with Teo and his protective translator, Olga.
Recapping the final technical rehearsals of Semi-Final one on the ESC Insight podcast with Ewan Spence, Samantha Ross, and Ben Robertson (ESC Insight), and Keith Mills (EscKaz).
