The 4th day of the Eurovision 2023 rehearsals in Liverpool has just started. 15 countries will hold their second rehearsals this year on the big stage in Liverpool.
The full schedule for today is:
| Country | Rehearsal Time (CET) | TikTok Live With Timur (CET) |
| Norway | 11:30 – 11:50 | 11:55 – 12:20 |
| Malta | 11:55 – 12:15 | 12:20 – 12:45 |
| Serbia | 12:20 – 12:40 | 12:45 – 13:10 |
| Latvia | 12:45 – 13:05 | 13:10 – 13:35 |
| Portugal | 13:10 – 13:30 | 13:35 – 14:00 |
| Ireland | 13:35 – 13:55 | 14:00 – 14:25 |
| Croatia | 15:00– 15:20 | 15:25 – 15:50 |
| Switzerland | 15:25 – 15:45 | 15:50 – 16:15 |
| Israel | 15:50 – 16:10 | 16:15 – 16:40 |
| Moldova | 16:15–16:35 | 16:40 – 17:05 |
| Sweden | 16:40–17:00 | 17:05 – 17:30 |
| Azerbaijan | 17:05 – 17:25 | 17:30 – 17:55 |
| Czechia | 17:30 – 17:50 | 17:55 – 18:20 |
| The Netherlands | 17:55 – 18:15 | 18:20 – 18:45 |
| Finland | 18:20 – 18:40 | 18:45 – 19:10 |
You can find the full rehearsal schedule here
The rehearsal round-up will be released this evening on the official YouTube channel.
In the meantime, we will span the first impressions from each performance.
Once we gather additional details, we will update accordingly.
This post will be gradually updated, so keep on visiting us and refreshing the page.
Recap:
🇳🇴 Norway: Alessandra – Queen of Kings
- Alessandra wears an outfit that is very similar to the one presented in the national selection. However, the base of this outfit is dark green velvet top. She also wore a black tight pants.
- Alessandra wore a gold necklace and gold bracelet, while her nails were painted in a dark green – black color.
- “Melodi Grand Prix 2023″. The colors of the outfit are velvety green, gold, and black. Her outfit also features a black cape
- Alessandra won’t be alone on stage; she will be accompanied by 4 backing dancers holding stick lights.
- The LED screen will support the northern lights and northern seas, as it will showcase icy blue lightning.
- Norwegian delegation hasn’t made any changes, compared to the first rehearsals.
🇲🇹 Malta: The Busker – Dance (Our Own Party)
- The Busker have kind of retrieved their national final performance, featuring a lot colorful object and props.
- The three of them looks confident on stage, as the two players are equipped with drums and saxophone. The drummer has a pair of shiny sunglasses.
- Their set features 4 different parts, each of them with a different visuals.
- Destiny (Malta Eurovision 2020-2021) cardboard cutout is here to stay, may she bring them some luck! She is not the only Maltese Eurovision start to appear as a cardboard, Chiara (Eurovision 1998, 2005, 2009) and Ira Losco (Eurovision 2002, 2016) join as well.
- We will also be able to see a red car. a tiny room with a sofa, a lamppost and a yellow park bench
- Their performance also features outfits changing: from the warm sweaters to a silver shiny sequins
- The led screen shows colorful text that calls us to dance
🇷🇸 Serbia: Luke Black – Samo mi se spava
- Luke Black starts the performance while he is lying on the icy shell bad prop (the same one was used in the Serbian selection).
- He is accompanied by 4 backing dancers (2 males and 2 females) with trailing long hoses. A smoke wilk get out of them towards the end of the song
- The performance features a dark theme, with some convincing visuals and mystery
- Serbian delegation has also used some pyro towards the end.
- He wears an elegant outfit, consisting of white shirt, black pants and black shoes.
- The backdrop is blue, white, gray and red.
- The second performance includes some changes in the graphics presented on the LED, we can see more video-games related visuals.
🇱🇻 Latvia: Sudden Lights – Aijā
- Unfortunately, the airline lost the band members luggage and that’s why they appeared with other customs.
- In the second rehearsals, they switched their outfits into sharp suits.
- In general, the stage is quite dark. The backdrop suggests light blue lights, while we have some lampposts that show an orange vivid lightץ
- The light beams create a kind of lighting wall that surrounds the stage
- The concept of the performance is intimate, but at the same time utilizes the stage as a live concert
- The melancholic line of the song is well produced in the performance itself.
- Towards the end, the song becomes more calm, as the electronic production is replaced by sweet lullaby.
🇵🇹 Portugal: Mimicat – Ai Coração
- Mimicat wears a red dress, made of feathers.
- Mimicat also wears pink sleeves. She and her 2 female dancers wore red heeled sandals.
- She is accompanied by 4 dancers, just like in the national selection. They lift up the performance with their catchy and contagious dance movements.
- However, the sofa from the national final won’t be part of the Eurovision performance.
- The lightning changes in the range of blue, orange and red. The use of lightning utilizes the shape of the stage.
- The cabaret theme is well showcased.
🇮🇪 Ireland: Wild Youth – We Are One
- The lead singer Conor wears a glam rock gold outfit
- The staging features stairs, featuring different LED lights.
- Towards the end, we can expect some pyro
- The other band members (keyboards player, drummer, guitarist) wear black elegant outfits with gold decorations.
- The lighting is mostly gold and yellow, indicating the main color of this performance
🇭🇷 Croatia: LET 3 – Mama ŠČ!
- “Let 3” band try to stay memorable with visuals similar to the ones we’ve seen in “Dora 2023“.
- The band members are wearing colorful dresses with hats. They also wear platform heels.
- The colors of their outfits are red, pink, dark blue and black.
- The scene itself is quite dark, in order to create a contrast with the themed video and colorful outfits.
- Towards the end, they go in a more provocative direction, as they show off their underwear and hold giant missiles.
- The LED screens show colorful and psychedelic graphics. We can see yellow, red and black colors there for example. The themed video on the LED screen presents the band members walking and stepping.
- Towards the end, we get a pyro while they are standing in circle.
🇨🇭 Switzerland: Remo Forrer – Watergun
- Switzerland’s staging was created by the Swedish Sacha Jean-Baptiste (for the 3rd time in a row).
- Remo is accompanied by 4 contemporary dancers (2 females and 2 males). From time to time, we can see him dancing as well.
- Remo wore an elegant half-transparent black jacket and shiny black pants.
- He is tied to his 4 dancers at the beginning of the performance
- The lightning is yellow, blue, red and white.
- Towards the end, we have some pyro effects, essentially we talk about a rain of red fireworks at the most powerful part of the song. Smoke will all be part of the package.
🇮🇱 Israel: Noa Kirel – Unicorn
- At the beginning of the performance, Noa is standing on a huge box lit with LEDs. The tunnel box has a nested shape. Noa has done some impressive movements on top of it.
- The staging concept includes some rotating camera angles, where Noa uses diverse facial experiments.
- Regarding the lighting, there is a use of bright lights in a similar way to on-camera flash. The light comes in soft colors like white, light-blue and pink.
- Noa is not alone on stage, she is accompanied by 5 backing dancers (3 males and 2 females). Her dancers wear pink and black outfits.
- One of the impressive parts would probably be the dance break that comes towards the end, after “Do you wanna see me dance?”. During the final dance part, Noa appears in a more minimalistic outfit.
- The upper part of Noa’s outfit is half-transparent, featuring black and white colors with gold decorations. She wears boots.
- We can also expect some pyro, as the rain of fireworks takes control.
- The LED screen show 2 beautiful white-gray unicorns on a black background.
- At a specific part of the performance, we can see the dancers on their knees, around Noa, while they showcase the “unicorn” hand movement.
At the meantime, you can see Noa in her soundcheck. behind the scenes:
🇲🇩 Moldova: Pasha Parfeni – Soarele si Luna
- As the ethno folk song of this semi-final, Moldova will try to bring us some epic visuals.
- The concept is similar to the one we saw in the national final.
- Pasha wears a traditional outfit, he is accompanied by 2 female backing singers and a flute player (even though he isn’t really playing the flute).
- Pasha and the backing singers wore outfits that were of a brown sand color. The flute player wore a mask and a black and gold outfit. The back part of Pasha’s outfit is made of white feathers
- As part of the performance he is almost shirtless, and a very big necklace covers his body.
- 2 backing singers are standing around him, wearing huge horned headdresses.
- The scene is quite dark, while the LED screens start with a metal brown and gold color.
🇸🇪 Sweden: Loreen – Tattoo
- Loreen will try to showcase similar visuals to the ones we have seen in “Melodiestivalen 2023”, but with some updates.
- The light box is part of the performance, but it is a smaller one. The lower light box can be carried easily on the stage, as it is elevated on the ground.
- The lower light box is higher and thicker.
- Her outfit is a catsuit, and she is equipped with long nails that help her deliver the massage with hand movements.
- The main visual is swirling smoke that comes in 2 dimensions: one from the LED screens. the other is real smoke.
- The lightning and smoke appear in several colors like orange, gray and blue.
- The majority of the performance is filmed in close-up, to increase the intensive message and raise the drama to another level. It will also enable to manipulate over the light box size.
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan: TuralTuranX – Tell Me More
- Tural and Turan will suggest a very simple line in their performance
- They wear elegant suits. one of them with a dark purple one, while the other is a lemonish green-yellow.
- Both of them hold guitars with tons of stickers
- During the performance, they are standing on a heart-shaped platform.
- The main beam lights are mostly blue and yellow. The circular upper light is purple and red
- The floor is full of white smoke in some parts of the performance.
- In order to elevate the nostalgic atmosphere of the song, we will be able to see a camera effect of colors fading, starting in black and white and moving to color.
🇨🇿 Czechia: Vesna – My Sister’s Crown
- Vensa members wore pink pantsuits.
- The performance also includes some synced dance movements.
- The backdrop LED showcases empowering phrases. We can also see the band members’ characters on the screen and hands.
- In part of the performance, the LED screen shows a red theme artwork with giant hands.
- The scene itself is quite dark, as the lighting is white, light-blue and red.
- Their appearance includes a kind of long braids which is apparently intended to symbolize the release from the shackles of society.
- The first verse includes captivating hair choreography. Another part of their choreography is composed of body swinging and marionette dancing.
🇳🇱 Netherlands: Mia and Dion – Burning Daylight
- Mia and Dion will convey an emotional atmosphere through their intimate performance.
- Both of them wear two-parts black suits with silver decorations.
- They are accompanied by backing singers, behind the scenes.
- Vocally, the song is built on the contract behind Dion’s low tone of voice, and Mia’s high tone of voice.
- The scene is quite dark, however the lighting creates captivating visuals.
- Both of them are walking and standing on a rotating black platform.
- The backdrop screens show pink, blue and purple lights.
- Towards the end, the lights create a kind of shiny stars around them with some white smoke.
- They end the performance by leaning one on each other.
🇫🇮 Finland: Käärijä – Cha Cha Cha
- Käärijä wore the well-known green bolero that is recognized with his character. He wore shiny black pants and black shoes.
- He is accompanied by 4 dancers (2 males and 2 females) in pink outfits. They wear a kind of special wig and fake teeth.
- He starts the performances while being inside the wooden box. We can also see some tiny surfaces on the stage.
- Käärijä climbs on the top of the box, where he gives us some dance moves, before going down.
- The famous train dance (that we’ve seen in “UMK 2023”) is part of the package as well.
- There’s a use in the circular lighting of the ceiling.
- The backdrop shows a giant shadow of him as he dances.
- The performance ends with impressive festive fireworks.
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