Welcome to Moscow (Day 4)

Each day Esctime will give you a morning summary of what the current day’s events will bring. We are at day two of rehearsals and press conferences so stay tuned for our coverage of 2009!!!

Yesterday we ran a new competition to win a Gipsy.cz promotional CD before semifinal 1 goes live! Do not forget we are still running the competition to win a Sakis Rouvas promo pack before semifinal 2 goes live! For the final and afterwards we are of course planning more competitions! Stay tuned!

But first, before today, lets go back to yesterday. Tuesday was the beginning of rehearsals of the second semifinal (read our review here). However, today is the rehearsal, arguably, everyone is waiting for. We have the first rehearsals with expected big stage shows from Greece, Azerbaijan and Ukraine, countries that all made the top ten last year and are expected to this year via betting and fan polls. Also there are some other fan favourites on stage today.

We have decided to break each day down to three blocks: B1, B2 and B3. There will be 3 articles per day for rehearsals and press conferences so you can just open an article and read whats occurring at the present time. (Key B: block, R: rehearsal & PC: press conference)

Here is todays full schedule (local time - move 2 hours back for CET)

B1:
10. Slovenia (R: 09:30-10:10 - PC: 10:45-11.15)
11. Hungary (R: 10:10-10:50 - PC: 11:25-11.55)
12. Azerbaijan (R: 10:50-11:30 - PC: 12:05-12.35)
13. Greece (R: 11:30-12:10 - PC: 12:45-13.15)

B2:
14. Lithuania (R: 13:10-13:50 - PC: 14:25-14.55)
15. Moldova (R: 13:50-14:30 - PC: 15:05-15.35)
16. Albania (R: 14:30-15:10 - PC: 15:45-16.15)

B3:
17. Ukraine (R: 15:30-16:10 - PC: 16:45-17:15)
18. Estonia (R: 16:10-16:50 - PC: 17:25-17:55)
19. The Netherlands (R: 16:50-17:30 - PC: 18:05-18:35)

Readers… it is time… it is EUROVISION TIME 2009!!!