25 hours left to the ESC. More and more technical errors and complaints take place during rehearsals. Moreover, ETV are not interested in correcting them. Is it Estonian biasm or indifference?
More and more unfortunate incidents have occured, which signal that ETV are not totally on top of organizing the contest after all.
Already this Tuesday, Danish entrant Malene W. Mortensen was troubled by dubious technical conditions at the rehearsals. Not all cameras were in use, meaning that the Danish delegation ended up seeing the roof of Saku Suurhall most of the time rather than the Danish artist. However, ETV had all cameras up and running on Friday's rehearsal.
The very same Friday, another country feels overlooked; Slovenia. Sestre – the Slovene entrants – have asked to receive more lighting when on stage as their facial expressions are not seen clearly. ETV engineers do not seem to care, let alone be changing the lighting.
Sestre want their act – containing flight safety instructions – to be seen by the European audience exactly the way they had planned. According to an inofficial press release from Sestre's inoffical fanclub, »it looks like ETV wants to prevent them from that.«
Denmark has also had problems. At the first dress rehearsal yesterday, ETV once again appeared to be disorganised. Malene's ear monitor a sort of hearing aid, which is inserted into the ear and allows its wearer to hear himself/herself live with no delay, author's comment was missing. Somehow, it had ended up with co-host Annely Peebo.
To Malene, this meant that she heard herself sing with a 1/25 second audio delay in the half-empty hall.
»I was this close to stopping and shouting 'hey, stop!'. But today, all cameras were pointing at me. Now that's always something”«, says Malene W. Mortensen. She seems to be taking all technical whoopsies with amazing calmness. As does the head of the Danish delegation Morten Carlsson. At least he says he does.
Last dress rehearsal will take place on Saturday afternoon. The very last chance to fix any bloopers.
