Eurovision 2006

[forre]

Originally Posted by fanoff

Now its Russia's turn and dima bilan is preparing a surprise for us!

Like what? Jumping on the white grand piano without any piano player but a girl attached to the side of it without any legs?
The pic

[fanoff]

no.dima jumps out of the piano and a girl comes out of the piano and kisses dima(dunno if its from the cheek or lips)

[forre]

Originally Posted by fanoff

no.dima jumps out of the piano and a girl comes out of the piano and kisses dima(dunno if its from the cheek or lips)

This trick won't do anything for the act to my opinion. Well, people say Russian will probably qualify too. I think so too, so no worries here.

[fanoff]

russia will easily qualify with balkan and baltic votes.Some certain coutries also have a place in the final but there are still unknown qualifiers and i hope one of them is Turkey.At the moment its Turkey's turn to rehearse."We are going on surprisng us till the semi-final gala."says the participant Sibel Tüzün.Stay tuned to our performance!

[forre]

Originally Posted by fanoff

i hope one of them is Turkey

Yeh, yeh, Turkey will qualify, don't worry.

[fanoff]

Originally Posted by forre

don't worry

now the air in here quite unexpected about qualifying but i think it will qualify too.

edit:some comments about Russia and Turkey

Russia
Dima is the first to have a rehearsal today: modern outfit (jeans and white tshirt); 5 people on the stage (sentimental choreography, 2 ballet - dressed girls dancing behind him, 2 backing vocalists, and the last girl apearing in the end, coming from inside, a white piano on the stage). The lights are colored in white. Reahearsal of Dima went very well today. There were many people with huge Russian flags believing that Dima's experience and great voice will take him to the final.

Turkey
Everything seems to be fine in Turkish rehearsal. Sibel is singing half Turkish and half English. In some moments we'll update more news about it.
p.s:update:Turkey--The performance was very energetic, powerful voice and modern choreography. Sibel wears a star in the side of her head and the performance goes smoothly well. update: Sibel Tuzun told to oikotimes.com that she used the half-half language just for reharsing. Management of Sibel told us that there will be one more surprise on the night of the semifinal. Let's wait and see.

[fanoff]

second rehearsal of Turkey,Sibel Tüzün

http://static.flickr.com/45/14603044...ac602c.jpg?v=0
http://static.flickr.com/51/14603044...c8b05f.jpg?v=0
http://static.flickr.com/52/14603044...04745a.jpg?v=0
http://static.flickr.com/54/14603104...9.jpg?v=0(star sign;=perfect)

[forre]

As I thought, the stage act of the Russians is not so good. Here's one review:

The most obvious thing to comment on about is the ballet dancers used for backing dancers. I know they are supposed to be serious ballet dancers to a serious romantic love ballad, but boy they are extremely stiff and I am not convinced they go with the songs tempo. The American Beauty style ballet dancer sitting in the piano looks stiff and awkward and has a Dawn of the Dead feeling to her. It looks like she wants to push the Russian of the piano when he jumps up and does his show-stopping moment.

As for Turkey. Pictures don't show it all. Here's another opinion:

Turkey was up next this morning. This was a good rehearsal but there were a few problems and , in my opinion, it was not as good as their first one. The main problem for me is her lifts. She had problems here at the first rehearsal too. They seem to have sorted the one where she is lifted to the back of the stage. That is fine but when they lift her back to the front of the stage just before the key change, they rarely time it correctly so she is either not on the ground or just barely on the ground when she has to start singing again. She should have had a head mic to make things easier!!! Varying opinions on Turkey as well this year. Personally, I have to say that after the first rehearsal I thought that it might qualify. After today, I'm not so sure.

They say Sweden is an automatic qualifier. I bet Carola is. With her experience and a sure stage act, she'd do it well

[fanoff]

the star of today's rehearsals might bte the ukranian particpant Tina Karol.they say the performance is almost perfect and we can think about Kyiv 2007.lets wait and see.

[11Russia]

This year almost all the songs are boring...
Last year was more intresting...

[fanoff]

this is what everybody thinks about this year but i think opinions will change after the shows.

[freddie]

Most of the acts I've been able to catch so far were rather bland imo. There're just two that caught my eye. Iceland and Finnland. Finnland needs to win it. And Iceland... Iceland needs to die.

[spyretto]

I thought you said Finland reminds you of early Alice Cooper blah blah...unoriginal.
So you dig it now?

This year almost all the songs are boring...
Last year was more intresting...

yeah, too mediocre...no favourites for me this year and no voting..will watch the show just because it's on tv.

[11Russia]

Originally Posted by spyretto

yeah, too mediocre...no favourites for me this year and no voting..will watch the show just because it's on tv.

I don't have a favorite either... I can't vote, but If I was able to vote I wouldn't vote for anyone lol

[coolasfcuk]

azis IS going to be on stage for bulgaria http://www.doteurovision.com/phpnews...llnews&id=1063

for those of you who are watching/have news, will someone please update me on the bulgarians? thanks

[coolasfcuk]

so type in 'severina craotia' in google to look up that performer... and what do you know, this: http://gcruse.typepad.com/the_owners...na_vuckov.html came up

[fanoff]

Originally Posted by coolasfcuk

so type in 'severina craotia' in google to look up that performer... and what do you know, this: http://gcruse.typepad.com/the_owners...na_vuckov.html

everyone knew that..anyway today we will get to see the finalist rehearse for the first time on the stage.So today all the participants will have been on stage.semi-final on thursday,final on saturday.

[fanoff]

the finalists rehearsals ended at 20.45 cet.since its the first rehearsals they were not so good but todays star must be the host paticipant anna vissi.her vocal performance wasnot that good but she stole the day with her charisma.

edit:you can watch Vissi's performance from this link

[fanoff]

i wonder if anyone in here will vote for another country.which one will you vote?ithink i will vote for romania even though i dont like the song that much just because i promised to myself to vote for it if it wins the national final.it did so...

[Rachel]

Originally Posted by fanoff

ithink i will vote for romania even though i dont like the song that much just because i promised to myself to vote for it if it wins the national final.it did so...

The logic in there is beyond me.