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Want to see what happens off camera at Eurovision?
We went to the final rehearsal for Eurovision 2025's First Semi Final
It was awesome, and although this year I couldn't take my camcorder, I filmed with my phone - not as good quality, but I captured all the excitement and atmosphere, and as usual I concentrate on all the stuff you don't see on the TV broadcast.
The scene changes are super quick - all done on 1 stage, they have less than a minute to take off 1 set and replace it with another and get the performers ready for their song.
There are the best bits of each song and some comments from me along the way.
On our Easyjet flight out from Manchester was Richie Anderson, one of the 3 main Presenters for the BBC's Eurovision coverage, so the BBC don't seem to be wasting money on posh flights!
I wonder why they have a no camcorder rule this year - I mean everyone has phones which can record, some of them really really good, so why should the humble camcorder be banned?

Filmed on DJI Pocket 3 and Motorola G55
Tuesday 13th May 2025

00:00 Arrival and Pre-show
02:57 1. Iceland
03:05 2. Poland
03:15 3. Slovenia
03:35 4. Estonia
04:19 Spain
04:46 5. Ukraine
05:21 6. Sweden
05:50 7. Portugal
06:20 8. Norway
06:34 9. Belgium
06:55 Italy
07:24 10. Azerbaijan
07:58 11. San Marino
08:22 12. Albania
08:49 13. Netherlands
09:11 14. Croatia
09:32 Switzerland
09:48 15. Cyprus
10:34 Made in Switzerland
11:16 Celine Dion tribute
11:35 'Results'
12:11 Final act Jørgen Olsen
12:31 Leaving