It's time: we have followed the building of the stage a little and the stand in rehearsals went by without leaks and now the real rehearsals start in Basel this morning. But as its been already awhile the first technical rehearsals of 30 minutes are with closed doors and apparently Ebu will not even publish footage from them but only three official photos, the day after. And I don't mind at all even if the fandom seems to be in outrage. If I was an artist I wouldn't want today's social media to massacre my performance and the rest beforehand. After all the only thing that really matters is those three minutes on stage live on broadcast, all the rest is meaningless in the end. A fact the fandom tends to forget. I also kinda miss those days you knew nothing about beforehand - then again they all had the same stage and just stood by the microphone, lol - and I remember even in Helsinki 2007 you saw the stage concept only when the rehearsals started and we were allowed to ...