First up is Dino Merlin. His vocals are sounding great, as are those of the backing singers. There are five backing singers, some standing on a podium. At points during the performance, a man does a weird dance, which to me doesn't fit the song at all, and seems out of context. The stage is red once again for the Bosnian entry.
The ballad from Austria is performed well by Nadine. She is on a small podium, wearing a small black dress with long sleeves. She has five backing singers all wearing long black dresses. The set is a dark blue and has small diamonds on the screen behind the stage. Charming little number but will this be enough to qualify, after not seeing Austria in a ESC final since 2004.
3. The Netherlands
3JS are joined on stage by three backing singers. The stage is lit in green, yellow and purple, and the vocals are sounding ok. Not sure whether this will be good enough to qualify against some of the other big songs in this semi-final, but I wish them luck!
4. Belgium
Witloof bay sounded as if they had a few sound problems with their rehearsal today, but hopefully they can be fixed before the next rehearsal. The performance is pretty simple, with a blue back drop behind them, and just them on stage. After a few good vocal performanes I think Belgium will struggle this year.
5. Slovakia
Pleasent rehearsal from TWiiNS, with them sounding nice singing the verses, but they have some distance to go before it sounds as good as what it could. On stage with them is a grand piano, a drum kit and two backing singers. The screen behind them shows white and yellow patterns, so the focus of the performance is definitely the twins.
Later we will look at the first rehearsals of Ukraine, Moldova, Sweden and Cyprus.
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