Yesterday we saw day six of rehearsals of the Big 5 and the host of Eurovision Song Contest 2025. Now we bring you a wrap up from the rehearsals.
The first and second rehearsals for Eurovision Song Contest 2025 are being held behind closed doors without the presence of the media. The Eurovision Song Contest’s official Reddit account is running a live blog daily from the rehearsals with the latest developments.
In this article we bring you the ‘I’ve Arrived’ videos and excerpts from Eurovision’s official Reddit account’s live blog:
Germany
Abor & Tynna – Baller
Eurovision’s official reddit account reports:
So, let’s talk staging. This is another performance that’s had a huge glow-up since the national final – it opens with Abor playing a classical intro of Baller on cello in front of a floor to ceiling curtain, but it’s a very cool white electric cello that’s lit up with white LEDs. Then the curtain drops along with the bass, to reveal Tynna on top of a huge prop – an 80s-style boombox stereo, maybe 3 metres high, with a central platform where Tynna performs the first verse and chorus before descending to join her four dancers, who light her up with handheld spotlights while they freestyle around her.
Tynna is wearing an outfit that’s giving Lara Croft at a Berlin rave – black military-style hotpants and knee-high military boots, a black crop top and elbow-length ruched leather gloves. The lighting and graphics add to the gritty, industrial vibe – lots of pulsing white and blue strobes, BALLER in huge white letters on the black flashing LED wall, and a huge echo on Tynna’s vocal in the chorus that makes it feel like this party is in the biggest warehouse ever.
For the final verse and chorus Tynna dances on the walkway while Abor plays his cello on top of the boombox for the second half – worth noting that his are currently the biggest shoulder pads at Eurovision 2025, but we haven’t seen Italy yet. The cello-smashing at the end? Gone, but never forgotten.
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France
Louane – Maman
Eurovision’s official reddit account reports:
And to help us all understand the vision, we’ve had some staging notes! Merci beaucoup to the French delegation. They describe the performance as follows:
“On stage, the sand falls—grain by grain, like time slipping through an hourglass. It’s more than a performance. It’s a reminder: time moves fast, and every moment counts.
Maman is about love, loss, and the strength to move forward. The hourglass becomes a symbol of life itself—the cycle, the urgency, the beauty of now. Through the pain, Louane delivers one clear message: no matter what we face, we can always rise. And while the sand keeps falling, we must live—fully.”
So, a few specifics. There’s a circle in the middle of the stage that’s covered with sand. Louane performs the entire song spotlit inside the circle, barefoot in a long, black lace dress, as sand rains down in a continuous stream from the roof above her, falling on one side of the circle.
At one point she kneels and clears a space in the sand to reveal a mirror – every movement is precision-choreographed to meet every drum beat and camera angle, and there’s some stunning camerawork of Louane through the spotlit grains of falling sand. The lighting builds with the orchestral strings, and the drum starts to pound through the floor like a heartbeat until the camera pulls back for a final backlit wide shot. Another one of those performances where we forgot to breathe for a while.
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United Kingdom
Remember Monday – What The Hell Just Happened?
Eurovision’s official reddit account reports:
And we’ve had some more staging notes! Here’s how the UK delegation describe the performance:
“It’s the morning after the night before. We reveal Remember Monday in a Regency style boudoir reflecting on the events of the previous evening.
As the first chorus hits we pull out and with a burst of movement the girls progress down the catwalk taking us back to the chaos of the previous evening.
On the main stage is a giant chandelier that has crashed down to earth. The chandelier is a striking reminder of the chaotic antics of the night before. The energy then builds before the stage plunges into darkness – leaving the chaos in its wake, the lights return and the girls re-emerge in the safety of the boudoir for a final sweet moment.
So, to answer the questions we know you’re going to ask – the chandelier is maybe 2.5 or 3 metres high, with candles around the outside. It’s in the centre of the stage, slumped on one side, and it flashes and lights up in various colours through the performance. The boudoir is one one side of the stage – a vintage-style padded screen with a central heart cut-out.
In terms of costumes, it’s very much the Bridgerton-meets-Moulin Rouge corseted dress vibe we saw in the official video – Lauren in pale blue, Holly-Anne in pink and Charlotte in yellow, with lots of flounces and sparkles. There’s some really clever camerawork that adds to the chaos party energy – a swooping shot over the chandelier, and some nice overheads of the LED floor. There’s also a very cute final shot where they sing the closing notes through the heart in the boudoir screen.
The three-part harmonies take the roof off St Jakobshalle, but there’s also a really powerful connection between these three singers – at one point they all start to laugh as they sing, and it feels really warm and natural. Their West End stage experience really shows, but they’re also best mates and that shows too. The whole thing is just a huge amount of fun, in the best possible way.
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