ESC 2015

So...time for some predictions!Here it goes!

Armenia
Belgium
Greece
Estonia
Serbia
Hungary
Russia
Denmark
Romania
Georgia

i do hope i am wrong about a couple of them though :P

Have fun tonight!

It's high time to post my predictions for the first semi-final. I will list the countries randomly, just 10 of them, not necessarily #1 is the best. So, here you go!

- Belgium
- Serbia
- Russia
- Estonia
- Greece
- Belarus
- Albania
- Georgia
- Moldova
- Macedonia

What do you think? Any thoughts?

Israel through up a magnificent party at Euroclub tonight. I heard about it a lot and was expecting a lot as well. Many rumours say that it's one of the most interesting parties held in Euroclub, so I decided to join it with Samira. It all started at about 10 pm. So, we arrived and we were offered fresh orange juice at the entrance. That was a good start! The disappointing thing was that a lot of non-accredited people were let in as well, so there was not enough air to breeze. Because of that I literary wanted to die.

Participants from Israel (of cause), Malta, Azerbaijan, Montenegro, Switzerland and Iceland were entertaining public which was very happy to see the contestants. Many nice foods were served - couscous, veggies, fruits, pastry and sweets up to everyone's taste. And again - there were loads of people queuing up for food so it was impossible to try anything. And that was the only and the biggest minus of the party.

In general, I have very positive emotions and impressions but I wouldn't have liked to repeat it again. Soon after 2 am Samira and I left home to relax at long last as tomorrow we have some spare time and no need to get up early.

We had a chance today to see the opening ceremony of the Eurovision Village at the City Hall Square with a unique show idea FASHION FOR EUROPE. The idea is about designers and brands from many different participating countries building bridges through fashion.

In total it took 1.5 hours to present 14 brand: Agnesa Vuyhaj (Albania), Sinoian (Armenia), Lena Hoschek (Austria), Fakhriya Khalafova (Azerbaijan), Bernard Depoorrter (Belgium), Ivana Helsinki (Finland), Atelier Michalsky (Germany), Galia Lahav (Israel), Calzedonia (Italy), Daili (Lithuania), Sanja Matijevic (Montenegro), Blessus by Michael Hekmat (Poland), Adelina Ivan (Romania), Julian Zigerli (Switzerland).

Welcome to the live English blog at the semi 1 jury final. Refresh page for updates and I will be ready to answer your questions here or on Twitter

There is some messy camera work at Conchita Wurst performance in the very beginning.

"Contestants, the stage is yours" and contestants are being introduced in green room.

Conchita Wurst is finishing her song after all contestants are introduced. She introduces hosts who on their turn introduce her as green room host. A joke about obligatory French language follows.

Moldova postcard features Eduard Romanyuta being winner of the tractor race. First victory for Moldova in Austria.

Very confident vocals for Eduard during his performance, he really delivers the energy flow, this actually is impressive and memorable.

Armenia is next on the stage with Genealogy. There is something wrong in what Vahe is sounding. Otherwise they are nailing it. I am still not convinced it's a qualifier, but it is close.

Belgium - Loic is doing street music and dancing in his postcard. He is a bit of trying hard at the rehearsal and it just doesn't look natural. I'm not convinced it's a qualifier. He gets though the first big apploads of the press-center.

The Netherlands - Trijntje is doing balloon flying at the postcard. A new outfit for The Netherlands looks a bit of baggy. I can't see this as qualifier, despite good vocal delivery.

Finnish postcard is Wiener Linien tram promotion. Camera work is very rough, but somewhat suits the song. It's on the verge of being mixed up with the interval act as it's so different.

Australia is being welcomed to the contest by hosts. Green-mom Conchita chats to Loic from Belgium. Hey gorgeous... Conchita moves to Trijntje Oosterhuis asking her about pronunciation of her name and revealing outfits. Good to talk to you darling.

Maria Elena from Greece got hammer in her postcard as present from Austria. Stunning performance that screams top 3 in the semi. 2nd big applause in the press-center.

Skateboarding in postcard for Estonia. This is good enough to do top 5 in semi, but not too strong to break top 5 in the final.

Macedonia is trying too hard too, and again that looks unnatural. No matter how I'd love it too, this isn't really staying in.

Serbia is on the verge of being out too, this is a mess, but organized and scheduled mess. This staging will either work or won't, and I'm more close to 2nd choice.

Despite having some Balkan countries and France to support, Hungary is completing the run of countries that either fail to leave impression at all, or do it wrong.

I've been trying - is the key word in Belarus performance. It's on the level of 2nd rehearsal, so much better than 1st, but still could have been so much better. Uzari gives his best performance of the week and it can barely make it.

Polina Gagarina looks very nervous on stage for some reason and it isn't her best performance. It won't trouble Russia's qualification but it may loose out of top 3 in semi. Yet another big applause in press-center for Russia and moving straight to Conchita talking to Elina & Stig.

Conchita also talks to Bojana calling her darling two times at least.

Denmark is next and just passing bye. May be enough to get teenage girls vote.

Albania nailed the vocals which have been questionable all through the week and now can hope for jury vote.

There aren't many changes for Romania, all goes well as planned, with the song being quite different from the field and closer to the end of the order it should make it.

At this position Georgia is really dangerous, and with Russia being a bit of shaky tonight, the winners of the show are Georgia and Greece to me.

Europe and Australia start voting now. Vienna highlights as the advertising break video. One more big feature about Australia in the another video.

Good morning Australia and Good Night Europe ends the show tonight.

Fake qualifiers tonight are: Denmark, Belarus, Albania, Macedonia, Georgia, Finland, Serbia, Romania, Hungary and Estonia. Moldova, Armenia, Belgium, Netherlands, Greece, Russia didn't make it.

Recap of 10 qualifiers to finish the show.

Before arriving to Vienna I booked a tour to a Schloss Hof castle and afterwords to wine tasting to a local winery. So, our trip started today at 9.30 am not far from our flat in Vienna. We were also joined by delegations from Latvia and Czech Republic (Marta only). It took us approximately 40 min to get to the palace as it is situated out of the city.

The total area of the property is about 50 hectares and it's absolutely amazing! It is green, quiet and very beautiful. We were welcomed by the management to nice ladies dressed is medieval dresses. And they actually were our guides throughout the whole journey in the palace. We visited the most of the rooms (dining room, playroom and the owner's bedrooms). We've been to the chapel and inner gardens. The views, landscapes are very relaxing and you can even see Bratislava clearly. A lovely tree course lunch was served, both for vegetarians and non-vegetarians.

Later on were drove to the winery where we met welcoming hosts - a Netzl family. We were offered a small tour around all the cellars and after that an 8 wine type tasting. We started with the whites and rose and continued with the reds. Each of the wines were supported by explanations of how it is produced and properly served. At the end we could buy a wine up to our tastes.

It is an unforgettable experience and I'm thankful to the Free Trips for such a joy.

At the Moscow Eurovision party organizers have produced 3D copies of all participants of the party, which have been handled to them yesterday at the red carpet. For example you can see that in our report with Macedonian entant Daniel Kajmakoski.

Ukrainian Eduard Romanyuta was arrested right on the red carpet

Representative of Moldova was arrested right on the red carpet of "Eurovision 2015"

Ukrainian singer Eduard Romanyuta, who is representing Moldova at Eurovision Song Contest 2015, appeared on the red carpet In Vienna accompanied by police and handcuffed. The audience was shocked.

"Watch the first act on the first half-final and you will get answers to all your questions"- Eduard Romanyuta's comments on his appearances added to already high level of curiosity of the audience. After completion of European-wide promo-tour, Eduard Romanyuta arrived to Vienna to challenge his competition at the final fight and show a worthy performance thus cementing his chances for a victory. The Moldavian representative will be opening 60th Eurovision Song Contest with song "I Want Your Love".

During the last three years Eduard Rmanyuta was hoing his talent and skills at national Eurovision contests in Ukraine. In 2015 absolutely everything was rip and ready - the act, as well as the song. Unfortunately the well-known tragic events at the motherland of the artist left their mark also on art life of the country - Ukraine decided not to partake in the contest this year. Nevertheless, Eduard decided, that Ukrainian voice must be heard in Vienna and instead of despairing, entered Moldovan national Eurovision 2015 contest.

In intense and fair competition between representatives of several countries Eduard Romanyuta emerged victorious and won the right to perform on the stage of the biggest European song contest. And now Eduard is representing not just one, but two nations at Eurovision.

Hello there! We've just came back from the Red Carpet Opening Ceremony in the Euirovision. It was my first experience and I'm full of emotions. It all started at 7 pm but we arrived there in advance - at 5.50 pm to book a vacant place for press to shoot better pictures and to take small interviews while all the contestants are walking along the red carpet.

I always thought that it's a matter of 20-30 min max but it all took about 2.5 hours. We were tired, hungry and thirsty. And we couldn't move or leave our places otherwise somebody else could occupy them. It all was about the outfits and accessories so Mike was mostly asking fashion questions. Conchita Wurst was the first on the Carpet; it's my first time that I saw her in person. I didn't expect her to be that graceful and airy in her spotted grey dress.

All the participants were designer dressed with an evening make up and all of them were very beautiful. Most of all I like the outfits from Poland, Australia, Spain, Russia, Greece, Iceland, Belgium, Norway and Latvia.
It’s this sort of event that neither the contestants nor I will ever forget, so we took a lot of photos and videos so you can imagine you were there with us. Enjoy!