Eurovision 2017

Presumably these are first rehearsals with the performers themselves?

In recent years there are rehearsals of every song that take place before this, with local stand-ins who mimic the staging and mime to track? (This is to allow the TV rehearsals to take place before the performers arrive from each country, and thus saving significant amounts of money in terms of hotel rooms and other expenses incurred when travelling, whilst allowing the creative teams more rehearsal time)

The presenters on that red carpet event were truly dreadful.... terrible grasp of the English language and were at times plain rude and unprofessional. Let's hope this 'B list' presenting team give no indication on the main presenters.

I take it there was still plenty of tickets available for tonight? Arena floor doesn't even look half full.