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Second rehearsals
Day 6: Armenia, Netherlands, Finland
Song 14: Armenia - Sirusho - Qele, qele
Another energetic performance from Sirusho for the first technical rehearsal of the day. Her powerful voice in well suited to this ethnic pop song. She is joined by three male dancer who show their athletic prowess on stage. Both dancers and singers interrelate well on the stage.
Song 15: Netherlands - Hind - Your heart belongs to me
Hind looks very elegant dressed in an sparkling black dressed and knee length boots. Again she deliver a note perfect performance of Your heart belongs to me. She relates well with her two male backing dancers: this provides a perfect platform for her to show her outstanding vocals.
Song 16 - Finland - Teräsbetoni - Missal Meet Ratsastaa
Flashing lights announce the arrival to the Eurovision Song Contest stage of Teräsbetoni, the heavy rockers from Finland. We see heavy guitar playing and hard drum pounding from the leather clad 5 piece band. An abundance of piros and flames on the stage complement the heavy groove of this rock song. Lordi would be very proud of their fellow countrymen.
After lunch Romania, Russia and Greece will take the stage for a second rehearsal.
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Sirusho sounded great, but I would have wished for a better stage show. As for her costume, I know it's not what she'll wear in the actual show, so I won't say anything 
I have to say I'm ashamed of being Finnish. I mean... Good grace that was terrible!
live stage on the day will surprise a lot of us,critising Sirusho or all other singers is sooo easy,you go and do it if you can, this is Europe's and i can Worlds biggest musical festival, I still believe Armenia-Sirusho can surprise everyone in Europe,favourites never win in the end except Greece in 2005,Ukraine 2006 and Serbia 2007,before these years,always been a last minute or very tight race for top 2 spots...I still believe Iceland has a chance,Russia but it is slow song,may be Ukraine and Greece and Sweden/Armenia all these for top spots,but Europe will decide,not you and me.Kisses from Melbourne/Australia
Wow! hind for holland was fantastc! she just keeps getting better.. imo she has the best live vocals and is moving up my faves now 
finland hahahaha theyre soo endearing but i doubt they will threaten to qualify..
after seeing the live performances of sirusho, armenia has dropped as one of my faves 
i still luv the music but damn does she need a stylist 
also whilst she is almost flawless in the armenian part, the rest is still a bit scratchy
There are some effects and her choregraphy was fixed too! Just watch again the 2nd rehearsal tape from 12points.tv and you'll see some of the effects. And I think that's perfectly enough! She doesn't need to dance like Kalomira. Sirusho's song is different; and she a good movements matchig the whole song.
Wait and see! 
#Rita
Yeah I hope so 2 and I hope they`ve got more under their sleeve than just that mic exploding thing that`s not gonna happen after all... they need some kind of wow effect or something... but otherwise yes I agree that it`s better 2 keep it clean (but not 2 clean) unlike russia and greece (though I love greece 2 this yeah, her dancing is gr8)
Allan,
Wait and see! She'll do an excellent show on May 20
Choregraphy is fine, don't judge by those low quality rehearsal tapes. By the way, Mihran is touring, I guess this is the reason why he coudn't be with Sirusho.
Her performance is fine and unlike Greece, Ukraine and Russia she doesn't have heavy props. It's rather an advantage seeing from a quarel Russia and Greece had over this whole props installations stuff.
Go Sirusho, we believe in you!!!
A new short video message from Sirusho is now on Eurovision.tv`s Youtube site;
http://youtube.com/watch?v=IcF_XsZir2I
She looks, talks and acts so lovable there
Best of luck 2 u Sirusho
Ok, I`m trying 2 be supportive and trying 2 c some logic in why they chose that choreography
The music has very strong eastern tones in it so typical Armenian dancing would`ve highlighted it even more and drums (like in the video) would`ve been 2 predictable, so maybe they did this modern/neutral choreography 2 tone the eastern tones a bit down so they`ll get votes from both East and West and there`s also some homo erotic touch in the choreography so they`ll get votes from gays 2... so yeah I can try 2 find some logic in it, but I`m still missing that wow effect that I was hoping 4... so 2 be honest 4 the 1st time Armenia had a chance 2 win the contest but now I can c it slipping out of their fingers
So bad choice Sirusho... DerHova did a good job and provided Armenia with a winning song but then they went 2 mother Russai 2 f--ck their show over...
I mean why would Russia give u their best 2 win (specially when the song is already so good) when they themselfs r doing everything 2 win (they r really desperate this year 2 win, look at Dima`s show, ice sk8ing, violinist, OL champion ect basically a big mess) ... So I still think Armenia/Sirusho made a mistake by not going with Mihran and the Madonna`s dancers
nl and finland are very impressive and fun
on the countrary armenia is very dull
Verry good performance from The Netherlands!!!
So good singing from Hind.
This has to be going to the final.
Armenia is nice but to much repeat.
The lady is nice but she is not always singing verry well.
GO NETHERLANDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!
I think these lands going to the final
Romenia,Norway,Russia,Armenia, Netherlands,Ireland,Israel,Gre ece,Azerbeidzjan and Poland or Slovenia
@Allan,
I loved Sirusho's show! It's excellent. Of my god she is gorgeous!
And she has improved her vocals. I just hope the director will present her show as it is ... with all small details and effects!
And I beleive that Serbia crew will do an great job. Go Armenia!
Let's meet in Yerevan 2009!
Armenia will do it welll.
funny moment in this video of Armenia when one of the dansers loses the shuo.....
I think from those three the best is Armenia. But i don't like the dance of the dancers, they spend too much on the floor
i m so dissapointed with sirusho!!! qele qele is my favourite song but her appearance on stage is so simple and with no actual dance or show!!! i think this will cost her a win for armenia!! but good luck!!
andorra the best
@ Stockholm calling
Damn! But thanx for informing me anyway. Finland is a bit out of luck it seems to me this year...(not because of one vote, but all in all.)
New video from Sirusho`s 2nd rehearsal here but still the camera work is terrible and the stage it 2 dark
http://youtube.com/watch?v=gGm0Q0R31WA
Annika A:
The UK will vote in the 2nd semi.
VÂNIA on the press conference.
http://www.youtube.c(...)/watch?v=wEn8ZQA1Qck
AMAZING!
Thanks for the link Allan
The quality of the video sucks and you're right on top of it the cameras are just travelling without any orchestration! I hope it will be different on May 20.
I hope the Netherlands qualify, she really comes off as an proffessional in the rehearsals. Such a shame I can´t vote...
IMO Armenia is pretty overrated. The stage show doen´t not impress me although the song itself is catchy. However, I can only judge 100% after the semifinal performance.
I think Teräsbetoni goes from strenght to strengt. Playing live and rehearsh is nothing strange for a rockband...
@ Melina
Since you live in the UK, can you vote for Teräsbetoni for my sake? UK can vote in the 1st semifinal, right?
Here is a very very bad quality video of Sirusho`s 2nd rehearsal:
http://ru.youtube.co(...)/watch?v=jU1jdwIJhQw
She sounds much better but the camera angles r so bad, it`s like they hitched random ppl from the streets 2 film it... terrible
i'm surprised too
probably they didn't want it to go online
strange!
Where the hell is Armenia`s 2nd rehearsal video? they were the 1st 2 rehears 2day and still there is no video anywhere online 2 find? what`s going on?
I'm certain both Armenia and the Netherlands will qualify... both are great songs...
It is not Armenia against the Netherlands. I hope both songs qualify.
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