Fancy a sneak peek at the Eurovision Song Contest grand final ahead of the show? Enjoy the elaborate staging devices, pop metal, power ballads and even a song about Edgar Allen Poe (yes, really).
It's a gruelling schedule as the floor manager cheerily announces:"Enjoy the show, we're exhausted, but you'll love it."
A Ukrainian lighting designer who would normally be working on Dancing With The Stars or The Voice in his home country has come over specially to work on the show.A quartet of presenters - Graham Norton, Hannah Waddingham, Ukrainian TV star Julia Sanina, and Alesha Dixon - introduce the show, and if the 26 acts are tired from their numerous test runs, you wouldn't know it.
We're treated to a setting sun on the big screen for Poland's catchy Solo, so while the weather here in Liverpool may be a little damp, the sun is shining in the arena. The act gets full pyrotechnics too, bookending singer Blanka's energetic dance interval. Spain's Blanca Paloma enters the stage through a maroon fringed structure, with the song's chanting anthem also serving as its title, Eaea.Paloma has said the song represents a"chant to her late grandmother", who had inspired much of her music, and it's fusion with a strong synth line gives it a Eurovision edge.
Long-haired immigration lawyer and Voyager frontman Danny Estrin rocks out on the bonnet of a full-size car on the stage for Australia's Duran Duran-inspired rock track Promise.Belgian act Gustaph present their 90s-inspired hit, Because Of You, while wearing a bizarre outfit of candy floss pink trousers and an oversized cream cowboy hat - and hitting impressive high notes.
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