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Baku Live: Semifinal 2 Jury Rehearsal
Welcome along to the Baku Press Centre for the second dress rehearsal of the second semifinal in the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest. However tonight is no ordinary rehearsal, as it's also the show that the juries will vote on. Follow our live blog below. Remember that you can hear the rehearsal ...
Baku Live: Semi-final 2: First dress rehearsal
Welcome back to the Crystal Hall here in Baku, for the first full dress-rehearsal of the second semi-final. After the highs and lows of yesterday's results, attention now turns to the entries from a further eighteen countries, all hoping to secure a coveted spot in Saturday's Grand Final. This re...
Baku Live: Sabina Meets Engelbert Humperdinck
Azerbaijan's 2012 Eurovision Song Contest hopeful Sabina Babayeva held a reception today to meet the United Kingdom entrant, Engelbert Humperdinck. In an intimate reception on the 24th floor of the Baku Hilton Hotel. Media from across Azerbaijan, Russia, and the UK were all there to get photo an...
Baku Live: EBU Press Conference
Today the European Broadcasting Union will give its annual press conference on the Eurovision Song Contest, where we're expecting to hear the provisional dates for next year's competition. Follow our live blog below: [liveblog]
Baku 2012: Running order for the qualifiers of semifinal one
The draw for the running of semifinal one is as follows. Automatic finalists are mentioned in Italic: United Kingdom: 1 Hungary: 2 Albania: 3 Russia: 6 Iceland: 7 Cyprus: 8 France: 9 Italy: 10 Azerbaijan: 13 Romania: 14 Denmark: 15 Greece: 16 Spain: 19 Germany: 20 ...
Baku Live: Semi Final #1 Qualifiers Press Conference
Welcome back to the Crystal Hall in Baku, where earlier tonight we found out which ten countries from semi final 1 have qualified to the final this Saturday. We will see quick interviews with all ten of the qualifiers, along with the very important draw of their performance number in the final....
Baku 2012: Ten countries qualified from semifinal one
Tonight saw the first semifinal of the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. Ten countries qualified for the final, which meant eight countries missed out. The ten qualifiers in random order: Romania Moldova Iceland Hungary Albania Cyprus Denmark Greece Russia Ireland The eigh...
Baku Live: Semifinal One
Tonight will be the first of three live shows of the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. Eighteen countries will battle for ten spots in the final. The eighteen battling countries with their songs are: 01: Montenegro (Rambo Amadeus - Euro Neuro) 02: Iceland (Gréta Salóme & Jónsi - Never F...
Update: Poll 2012 - Semi Final 1 Results
Since April, in conjunction with our partner site escChat.com, we have been asking our readers to vote on who they think will qualify from each semi final as well as take part in a "Wishlist" poll, voting for the songs that they would like to qualify and not who they predict. We can now offi...
Special: Editor Predictions for Semi Final 1
With just one hour to go until the show begins, escXtra bring you our own predictions ahead of tonight's show Here are the results of the escXtra team vote: Iceland (10) Romania (10) Russia (10) Ireland (10) Denmark (9) Moldova (9) Greece (8) Hungary (7) Albania (6) ---------- Finla...
Baku Live: Semi Final #1 Third Dress Rehearsal
Good afternoon and welcome to our live blog of the first of three dress rehearsals for Semi Final #1. Liam will be blogging and Rodrigo will be chatting on our live stream here for the show. The third rehearsal is scheduled to begin at 18.00 (15.00 CET). [liveblog]
Baku Live: Semi Final #1 Second Dress Rehearsal
Welcome back to the Baku Press Centre for the second dress rehearsal of this year's first semifinal. However tonight is more than just a rehearsal, as this is the tape that the juries will watch tomorrow before submitting their votes in to the European Broadcasting Union. Follow our blow below!...
Baku Live: Semi Final #1 First Dress Rehearsal
Good afternoon and welcome to our live blog of the first of three dress rehearsals for Semi Final #1. Michael and Ryan will be blogging and chatting on our live stream here for the show. The first rehearsal is scheduled to begin at 18.00 (15.00 CET). [liveblog]
Slovakia: Max Jason Mai [Interview]
After the second rehearsal of Max Jason Mai from Slovakia, escXtra met with him and had a rather interesting chat, where we asked each other questions. You can see our conversation with Max here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxgYU1V7W68 You can see Max's second rehearsal here: http://www.y...
Estonia: Ott Lepland [Interview]
Estonian singer Ott Lepland spoke to us here in the press centre shortly after his second rehearsal of his song Kuula. See what he had to say below: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf3iCDf86zI Watch his second rehearsal here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ClAio1OICM
Baku Live: Dress Rehearsal and Live Stream Schedule
So you can keep up to date with what's going on in Baku, we've published below the Dress Rehearsal and Live Stream schedules over the coming week. Note that Live Stream times are a guide only and may start earlier or later than scheduled, and may be interrupted at times between shows due to staff...
Cyprus: Ivi Adamou on the escXtra Live Stream
Shortly after a morning of interviews with television stations, the Cypriot entrant to this year's Eurovision Song Contest, Ivi Adamou dropped by to our webcam for a live chat with viewers of our live stream. Watch the chat with Ivi below! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4c-ezaQsds
Norway: Tooji Interview on the escXtra Live Stream
Continuing our ever popular live interviews with the entrants of this year's contest via our live stream, today we asked questions to Tooji who is representing Norway this year with Stay. You can watch the interview below http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xybyWMDukb4
Malta: Kurt Calleja on the Live Stream
After being interviewed in the press centre for a TV station this morning, we managed to grab 5 minutes with Kurt Calleja, the Maltese entrant to this years contest for a short chat with viewers of our live stream. As always, if you didn't manage to tune in this morning to see Kurt we have the...
Editorial: We’ve seen our winner!
Europe, that’s it! We’ve seen 84 rehearsals over the last eight days, starting with Montenegro over a week ago, and finishing with Germany this evening. During that time we’ve seen Bulgaria turn up in leopard-skin, a Trojan donkey for Montenegro, and more recently the fans from Spain starti...
Baku Live: Day 8 of Rehearsals
Welcome back to the Crystal Hall Arena in Baku for the last of the rehearsals before the semi rehearsals start tomorrow! We'll have the latter part of semi-final two contestants doing their second run-throughs, as well as the Big 5 + 1 doing theirs. From Estonia to Germany, we will be here pro...
Turkey: Can Bonomo interview on the escXtra Live Stream
After his second rehearsal this morning we managed to carry out a live interview with Can Bonomo, the Turkish entrant to this year's Eurovision Song Contest. In another interactive web chat by our team, viewers of our live stream were able to submit questions to Can live. If you didn't mana...
Slovenia: Eva Boto on the escXtra Live Stream
Earlier today through our live webstream we managed to catch up with the Slovenian entrant to this year's contest, Eva Boto. If you didn't manage to catch it live, you can watch Eva's chat with our viewers below. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro_Qc7dOYGU You can also watch her 2nd rehe...
Baku Live: Day 7 of Rehearsals
Hello again from the Crystal Arena Hall in Baku, on the seventh day of rehearsals for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. We are now officially a week away to the big night, and we'll be seeing the first rehearsal of the Big 5 + Azerbaijan today, as well as finishing the second rehearsals of the ...
Baku Live: Photos from Week One
Have a look at some photos from the first week here at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 from Baku, Azerbaijan. [gallery link="file" columns="2"]
Norway: Tooji [Interview]
Tooji from Norway caught up with us after his first rehearsal, hear what he had to say below: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA6_ptKBf3g Have a look at his first rehearsal here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UssuXpE9w04
Finland: Pernilla Karlsson [Interview]
Finnish singer Pernilla Karlsson caught up with us after her second rehearsal, hear what he had to say below: http://youtu.be/9gdqEDFJxQU Have a look at her second rehearsal here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqGdyWV-MUo
Moldova: Pasha Parfeny [Interview]
Moldovan singer Pasha Parfeny spoke to us today just after his second rehearsal. See what he had to say below: http://youtu.be/vHrGS-cGY-E You can see his rehearsal here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaNeJnFW5Dw
FYR Macedonia: Kaliopi Interview on the escXtra Live Stream
We had the pleasure today of conducting a live interview with Kaliopi, this year's entrant from FYR Macedonia - live and direct via our webstream. If you missed the interview you can watch it back below! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJLIjM-20cM-
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