The rehearsals have been in full swing today at the Friends Arena in Solna near Stockholm today ahead of the Melodifestivalen final on Saturday.

The artists taking part had a press conference earlier today as well and esctoday.com had a chance to have short chat with some of them.

Here below you can watch the interview with Louise Hoffsten. She says she would rather people at home voted for her because they like the song rather than because she is the only woman in the competition.

She also says she relaxes by playing the harmonica off the stage.

The second interview comes from young Anton Ewald. He tells about how he controls his nerves before going on stage. He tells he only started singing 7 months ago when he was asked by the record company.