Eurovision – Semifinal2 – Liveblog

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Liveblog Below
Opening ceremoney

20.02
Opening Ceremoney – Waterloo on accordians. of course it makes sense!

20.03
Diva. but with cone heads. and yes. accordian

20.04
Dancing dima bilan polar bears… and accordians.

20.06
Welcome to the 2009 eurovision semi final number 2. 19 acts perform tonight, the top ten get through to the final on saturday.

Competitors

20.07
Croatia. black cloaks to start with….

20.10
DE-CLOAK!!white dress ahoy!

21.11
Black DAISY!!! wooooooooooo! pop GRRRL!

21.12
Woah, they’ve rock chicked Sinead up a treat

21.13
Boggle!

20.18
LATVIA –
I’ve been looking for a jacket like that for ages. got a red tie like that already. looks like a hairy Dr. Who.
Bloke from the gadget show in the background i see.
dresses amde of A4. 110gsm.
cheeesey! projection gimmick!!!

20.19
SERBIA
ACCORDIAN!! money IN A SUITCASE! LEGS!
20.20
Will need to enforce more than a no fly zone if this keeps up. Barry white LIVES!!!!

20.21
Blue man group on holiday beating up the blonde in the background..

20.22
“put your knee in nutella!!” lalalala!

20.23
Poland. Look the use of wizards sleeves is getting ridiculous now.

20.24
Sounds like something the uk would enter. ROPES!

20.27
nORWAY. commence violin prancing.

20.27
David coulthards’ and sophie ellis bextor and jeff traceys teethy offspring.

20.29
Why is this the favorite????????

20.30
HEP!!! HEP!! HEP!! HEP!!!

20.33
Cyprus. Ballerina theme, hey this is better then last time. wha? slightly country. no shoes.

20.37
Slovakia – where are the picture frames? there is the piano…

20.38
Did he just come back from the pub?

20.38
translation “dinner is in the dog, oh my god, you even forgot to shave…..”

20.40
DENMARK! RONAN!! WESTLIFE!

20.40
They just cloned him and gave him a haircut.

20.42
Mr leather trousers looks slightly out of place but cowboy man looks like he is having a night of it.

20.45
Slovenia – crossover, there are about 6 words in this one. Where is bond when you need them? advertising peugoet 308 CC’s if you must know..

20.47
Portable tanning booths, bad for your health?

20.49
Hungary, ripping off everyones clothes. imagine Kylie singing this in 1992?

20.50
Do sores have a place in eurovision. foil t-shirts look to be in.. next. Warts.

20.52
watch out for the GIANT STAPLER!!!!

20.53.
IRAN!!!

20.54
seriously ARASH is iranian-swedish. Tights made of bacofoil! for the drum majorettes!

20.55
he’s not even really playing that bazooki…

20.56
GIANT GREEK STAPLER!!!!

20.56
CONVEYOR BELT!!! FIST!!!!

20.57
FIST!!! skiboots! FIST!!!! TENNIS!!!!

20.58
moonwalk, FIST!!!!

20.59
FIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

21.oo
Lithuania – where is his hair? trilby, watch out for the harmonics.

21.02
its the piano from tom hanks hit movie BIG, and he just set his hannd on fire..

21.03
Moldova – Possible Translation: “i like moldova, come to moldova, moldova is cool, we have 5% income tax, average monthly wave of 400 Euro’s Moldova, Moldova! MOLDOVA!”

21.05
Moldovan riverdance! nice corset too!

21.07
Albania- check out the twins. and a bloke, erm,. wearing a carrier bag on his head?
and a ballerina.

21.09
This is the revised intro sequence to sex in the city, SJB looookin’ goooood. chair! made of people!

21.11
UKRAINE – HAMSTER! ANTI CRISIS! MENTAL!!!

21.13
Greasy Roman centurions? wasn’t expecting that. me is sexy bum. anti crisis bum no less.

21.14
DRUM SOLO!!!!!!

21.16
Estonia – urban symphony with the worlds best fringe EVER! roooted to the spot. possibly because the dress is made of stainless steel.

21.18
Only the three dutch geezers and the grannies left.

21.21
Strap a lightbulb to my hand and join in!!!!

21.35
recap – still dont get norway, ukraine brilliant, hungary veery funny, giant stapler for the win!

21.39
interval act?

Results

21.52
IRAN!slashSwweden are through! oddly croatia have got through.

21.54
Ukraine, in, hurrah!

21.55
Lithuania? huh? Albania. not bad!

21.56
MOLDOVA??? … ?

21.56
RONAN IS IN!!!!!!

21.57
Estonia.

21.58
Norway? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

21.59
Phew. Giant Stapler gets through.

22.00
Goodnight Europe! see you on Saturday!