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  • June 8, 2025

Richard West-Soley

Richard’s ESC history began way back in 1992, when he discovered the contest could fuel his passion for music and languages. Since then, it’s been there at every corner for him in some way or another. He joined the esctoday.com team back in 2006, and quickly developed a love for writing about the contest. In his other life, he heads the development team at the learning resources company Linguascope, and writes about all aspects of language learning on the site Polyglossic.com.

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17. Lusitanian dance fest : English, French, Spanish and Portuguese

Portugal surprised many today by performing partly in English and French as well as Portuguese. Sabrina took to the stage

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16. Five angry men: first Czech rehearsal

The contrast could not be greater; big ballad Serbia leaves the stage, and hard rockers Kabat come on to perform

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15. Marija raises the roof

Serbia's Marija Serifovic has kicked off the day's semifinal rehearsals in Hartwall, greeted by a clutch of fans from both

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Anonymous reach Spanish No. 3

Andorra's Anonymous boys, who are due to rehearse for the first time in Hartwall today, have good cause to walk

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Second semifinalist rehearsals today

With the Eurovision Song Contest preparations now well in swing in Hartwall, the second day of rehearsals begins this morning

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13. Experience and Youth : Croatia's rehearsal

Dado Topic and Dragonfly both represent different things in the music industry; on one hand experience, and on the other

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11. Pain and pathos: Albania rehearses

The Albanian delegation presented itself on stage this afternoon with the song intended to take the country through the final

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09. Fighting and fire: Moldova rehearses

Natalia Barbu became the ninth act to rehearse today, as she took to the stage together with her dancers and

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07. Balkan Gothic : Montenegro rehearses

The second of today's debut countries to rehearse, Montenegro's Stephen Faddy took to the stage with his rocking crew today,

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05. Gerli rock hits Hartwall UPD

Estonia, having swapped its rehearsal schedule with Iceland due to Gerli Padar's previous commitments, was fifth up on the Hartwell

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Dana and Sir Terry in UK Euro chat show

UK TV chat show host Paul O'Grady featured former Irish competitor Dana and UK commentator Sir Terry Wogan on his

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Turkey's Ten Days of Success

Turkey's Eurovision Song Contest hopeful Kenan Doğulu departed for Helsinki yesterday, brimming with confience and with very high hopes for

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Rehearsals: Day 1

Today marks the beginning of the final countdown to the Eurovision Song Contest 2007, as the first contingent of semifinalists

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Edsilia says 'Hello Finland!'

Wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the Finnish for 'Hello Finland' in gold letters, Edsilia Rombley and the rest of the