Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Kati Wolf had a casual coffee at home Andras walked his dog Compact Disco cooked something Cascada met Jane Eric met Kikki Amir had tongue in cheek fun on stage Douwe - the city cowboy Michal undressing Vaclav in shower Valentina and Monica aka Harem B as Kesslers Zoe - the girl with a guitar Lucia at a Hawaii themed birthday party Jamala, the horse girl JOWST are up to something Senhit celebrates Gucci's decision to stop using furs Imri's last night before back to school Gabbani is feeling Foglie al gelo . Winter is coming .. . and beware: CAROLA IS BACK!

Francesco did Milan..... Vaclav did a video shoot.... Maraaya did Warsaw... Dami did Nashville.... Donny did Dundalk (that's Ireland btw)...  Mørland did beach... Poli did Prag... Sin+ did JazzAscona... Cascada did Budapest (shopping)... Vaidas did India... Gigliola will do Tokyo... Michal did... errr.... Helena and Tamta did a duet... Francesco did get good news... (one day she will share with us hopefully) Musiqq did celebrate 8 years together... Gigliola did Toto's make up for a photo shoot... Demy did a video.... Eric did have standars... Loic did a video shoot, too... Senhit did wear fake fur and sat on a fake leather.  Just to be clear!

The Big5+1 are having their second round of rehearsals this morning before the Second semifinal dress 1+2 will be run through. They will also perform later today in the Eurovision Village in a joint concert. SPAIN - ESDM - Contigo Hasta El Final (With You Until The End) The performance is pretty much the same as we saw already, except Rosario has changed her yellow short dress to a longer white one and the guys are in their usual casual chic. She uses the catwalk as well and sends of one of those lanterns that will Malmö Arenas ceiling. Will propably look very nice on telly....  Stay tuned for our interview with the band! FRANCE - Amandine Bourgeois - L'enfer Et Moi   Amandine looks sassy and sexy in her dress made of leather straps. She's got a bit of Tina Turner going on there, a hint of Bonnie Tyler and a lot of French charm. She won't certainly go unnoticed and it's a big relief France hasn't brought a circus on stage this year. She fills the stag...

Time for the host country... GERMANY - Cascada - Glorious Cascada has kept the main idea of their national final performance with the stairs but now everything's juts a little bit more polished and glamourous and glorious. And yes, there's again the cascada of fire and the use of the catwalk. I had my doubts and this never was really one of my favorites but seeingit like this, yes, it's very strong and dangerous. The audience in the arena will go wild for this. But is she going to be barefoot? I thought all the participants must wear their footwear to every rehearsals even if not in stage cloathes. Not very glamorous is it? But this rehearsal proves this year wide open, anything can happen. Even Germany is a possible winner. SWEDEN - Robin Stjernberg - You New staging, new colors, new wardrobe for Robin and his team.The stage act itself hasn't really changed so much as believed, they have only put Robin on a little artifical mountain, or rather a hill. I ...

Slovenia - Hannah Mancini - Straight into love American born Hannah does the honors for her adoptive Slovenia and I wasn't so into this one until they released the improved version along with the video (the previous simil live performance was lacking some oopmh, me thinks) Club anthems haven't really done so well in Eurovision and this may be way too hardcore for general European televoter - Euphoria was and is a schlager-like affair. The live performance will be crucial; her vocals, the staging. If they play the gay card like in the video it may easily turn against them, on the other hand if she's alone on stage.... I'm glad I'm not in charge of that as I wouldn't really know what to do with it! I like the song but I'm afraid Slovenia will miss the final once again even if it does stand out very well in the first semifinal between Estonia and Croatia. Ukraine - Zlata Ognevich - Gravity I loved Zlata with The Kukutshka but have had some trouble g...