Greece's entry had a problem at immigration in Azerbaijan thanks to the insane amount of shoes she packed.
With the first semi final coming closer and closer, five of this year's Eurovision artists met at Baku Jazz Center for a special jazz cocktail. A special party.
Sabina Babayeva from Azerbaijan, Anri Jokhadze from Georgia, Željko Joksimović from Serbia, Can Bonomo from Turkey and Maltese Kurt Calleja all gave some special performances that night. Both the Maltese and Georgian representatives took the stage to sing some jazzy songs. Can Bonomo surprised everybody with a jazz version for his entry song Love Me Back while Željko Joksimović performed a part of his own Nije Ljubav Stvar in Azerbaijani!
"Going out" as in leaving the competition after tonight's semi-final - who is flying home tomorrow?
Albania? If you happen to have some Eurovision minded friends in Facebook, or follow the fan sites, you might have an idea what the fans think....
But those are not the only ones voting in the end. This is why we asked a panel of five non Eurovision related people to have a listen to this year's songs and judge them for us. Having people listen to 42 songs in a genre they generally do not like or are at least not as fanatic about as most of us, is quite a task. We're happy they participated however!
Albania scores a definite win with their powerful song - now you can listen to singer Rona talking more about it.
12points.tv chatted to Greta and Jonsi outside in the heat - did they melt from the heat of Roy's questions?
OA | It's You and Me!
++ Engelbert furious ++ the interval act revealed ++ Torino 2013?! ++..
Yesterday and today orange has been the color. After the rather disastrous official opening party on Saturday, the Dutch stood out with the best party in baku so far, yesterday evening. The Dutch delegation had invited several other delegations at a club on the boulevard in central Baku. A lovely open air atmosphere, with nice drinks and finger food and a very good set of Eurovision perfromances by several of the invited 2012 artists. Ofcourse Joan Franka presented her song too, which was not only met by enthousiasme by the guests to the party but also the Azeri crowd that was following the mini concert from the boulevard. Watch a clip from her performance here.
Today Joan visisted the Maiden Tower in the beautiful old town, together with the Dutch press before we all wet for a traditional cup of Azerbaijani tea in an even more traditional Azeri restaurant. Joan being the princess in a 1001 night fairytale.
