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Thoughts on Semi Final 2

As most of you will have watched semi 2 last night on TV, or you were actually in the hall with us, we don't propose to analyse every detail of each song and as with our review of semi 1 we will simply summarise our impressions of the high and low points and compare our predictions from yesterday. Remember that these predictions are not necessarily our personal preferences.

Starting with our predictions .... Drew scored 7 out of 10, ... he predicted Cyprus, Latvia and Israel to qualify (they didn't) and he failed to predict Ukraine, Slovenia and Estonia (they did). Tam got 8 out of 10 .... he predicted Cyprus and Israel would go through (they didn't) and failed to predict Ukraine and Slovenia would qualify (they did).

Before we share our thoughts on last night's show and results, we want to show you pictorially the pre-show atmosphere and the buzz that seemed to be more than that for semi 1.

So we both did better with our predictions.......

Daniel did very well with 8 out of 10 and Mike not so well with 7 out of 10.

On another level this was probably the happiest we have both ever been with a semi final qualification list.....the bad songs went home, the great songs went through....

The one big disappointment for us was Bulgaria failing to make it.....

Press conference now.....

And 10 qualifiers from 2nd semi are...

Andy on Thu, 05/12/2011 - 21:54

Estonia
Romania
Moldova
Ireland
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Denmark
Austria
Ukraine
Slovenia
Sweden

9/10 - pretty easy to guess, though sad of course to see Slovenia instead of Macedonia

It's still between France and UK for Saturday with Azerbaijan, Georgia and may be Ireland completing top 5. Best wishes from me and Dusseldorf trip was really good. I'm leaving tomorrow morning and the rest of the team will update you on final happenings.

The OGAE UK & OGAE Ireland Parties and a surprise for Drew!!

Last night was the annual OGAE UK and OGAE Ireland Eurovision Fan parties which took place in O'Reilly's Irish Bar in Marktplatz, Dusseldorf.

From OGAE UK_OGAE IRELAND Party 11th may 2011

For those not in the know, OGAE stands for 'Organisation Generale des Amateurs de l'eurovision' and is one of the biggest world fan clubs of the Eurovision Song Contest.

We arrived at O'Reilly's Bar in good time and it was already heaving with excited Brit and Irish eurovision fans, drinks in hand and all singing along to past eurovision songs which were being played on a video screen. It was fantastic, everyone knows every word to each song and everyone knows all the actions and it was surely a spectacle to behold! The whole place was entirely bedecked with union jack flags and Irish tricolours.

From OGAE UK_OGAE IRELAND Party 11th may 2011
From OGAE UK_OGAE IRELAND Party 11th may 2011
From OGAE UK_OGAE IRELAND Party 11th may 2011

Everyone was partying, dancing and singing along and having fun, meeting old friends and making new ones... there was a rumour in the air that there was a huge surprise tonight and everyone was hoping that it might involve Blue but as Tam and others feared, .. would Blue come to a small very crowded pub to stand on a very small stage after having spent their lunchtime at the exclusive Big 5 party on a large boat on the Rhine with national TV networks. The rumour mill went into overdrive ...

Then suddenly, one of the hosts announced that Blue would indeed be making a brief appearance to thank their UK fans and would be arriving within the half hour. The fan crowd reaction exploded into squeals of frenzied Blue delight and many hearts started fluttering in anticipation. Drew actually lost the power of speech at the thought of being close to Duncan James and had to be calmed down by Tam.

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