In just a few more hours the first semi-final of the 57th Eurovision Song Contest kicks off from the Crystal Hall in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Eighteen acts will fight it out for the 10 golden tickets to the grand final on Saturday. The outcome will be decided by jury vote and televote at a 50/50 split. The local juries have already had the chance to send in their votes by watching what is known as the Jury semi-final yesterday.
The show starts at 21:00 CET and will be hosted by Nargiz and Leyla, TV presenters and Eldar who won the trophy for Azerbaijan last year. In this show, the host country, Azerbaijan as well as Spain and Italy from the Big 5 will be voting as well.
This is tonight’s running order:
- Montenegro: Rambo Amadeus – Euro Neuro
- Iceland: Greta Salóme & Jónsi – Never forget
- Greece: Eleftheria Eleftheriou – Aphrodisiac
- Latvia: Anmary – Beautiful song
- Albania: Rona Nishliu – Suus
- Romania: Mandinga – Zaleilah
- Switzerland: Sinplus – Unbreakable
- Belgium: Iris – Would you
- Finland: Pernilla – När jag blundar
- Israel: Izabo – Time
- San Marino: Valentina Monetta – The Social Network song (Oh Oh – Uh – Oh Oh)
- Cyprus: Ivi Adamou – La La Love
- Denmark: Soluna Samay – Should’ve known better
- Russia: Buranovskiye Babushki – Party for everybody
- Hungary: Compact Disco – Sound of our hearts
- Austria: Trackshittaz – Woki mit deim popo
- Moldova: Pasha Parfeny – Lăutar
- Ireland: Jedward – Waterline
You can watch online here via the ESCTV Player
