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Today the first set of rehearsals for the Andra Chansen has taken place in Helsingborg.

In each of the four heats two artists went direct to the Final of Melodifestivalen and two went to the Second Chance show.

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Duel 1: Andreas Weise v Linus Senning

Today the first to take to the stage was Andreas Weise and his song Bring out the fire. The question of costumes was to the fore. The dancers changed to gold colours but the thoughts are that they will go back to the original black numbers. Andreas told svt.se/melodifestivalen that he is very happy with the song but thinks that the duel will be hard fought.

Linus Senning is his opponent. For his song Forever starts today the public will see almost the same as they did previously. There are a few minor camera changes and some of the movements around the stage have been altered a little. As he has previously been part of the second chance show the experience should be easier, he told the broadcaster.


I attended my first Eurovision Song Contest in 1995, and from 1996 presented daily live reports for radio stations from the event. Since then I have been providing material from everywhere the contest has been held. I also enjoy compiling most of the video materials for three UK ESC events each year. In 2010 I first provided material for esctoday.com.