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Wednesday, May 20, 2015

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NRC editor Wilfred tributaries in Vienna for the 60th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. Every day we call him to hear what the highlights of the past 24 hours. Today: the great exodus of Dutch journalists and the press center is a casino …

Wilfred?. How are you, the day after ?

Good! I worked until late yesterday, so this afternoon sleep.

How is it with the Dutch journalists? Is anyone back home? I read that True last night picked up all the flags?

It is the day of the Great Exodus. Most Dutch journalists have gone home, have rebooked their flight or have relied thereon. There were forty Dutch journalists have no idea how many there are now. The diehards – like me -. Have been

What have you done today and seen

Today was the dress rehearsal for the second semifinal, which is tomorrow, on the program. It fits ten thousand here in the Wiener Stadthalle, where the final will also be held. They were today invited students, so there were ten thousand screaming teenagers in the audience. Among the participants of tomorrow is under everyone’s slain dyed winner here: Sweden. That boy, Måns Zelmerlöw, doing some kind of game with an animated figure that is projected onto him. Well done, because it is precision for the camera because you must do everything on the second. You can see it especially live. But that comes on TV and then it seems as normal. I was not impressed with the song, but everyone here calls that Sweden will win. You know what it is? The three great disappointments of my childhood that Santa Claus does not exist, God did not exist and that the contest does not let out the best songs of Europe

See the dress rehearsal of Sweden.:

I was also at the press conference today in Australia, which normally never participate in the contest, but this year it because of the anniversary and because they are great fans there. Australia has just sent a real soul singer Guy Sebastian. He has in his homeland six # 1 hits to his name, sold 3.7 million singles: he is the biggest star of Australia. And has a fantastic song. He sang it a cappella afternoon with four background singers. I finally heard a beautiful song. If they win, they love an Australian festival in Europe, they said

View the number of Australia, ‘Tonight Again’ .

I have also seen a lot of craziness, like Poland. They send a singer in a wheelchair. She had a car accident viz. During her performance you see projected archival recordings without wheelchair, which she as a frisky deer runs across the stage. A very good effect, you need a story. The last semi-final we had the mentally handicapped punk rockers from Finland, now this lady

See the dress rehearsal of Poland:.

A little over Trijntje: her performance was visually not appealing enough, according to some the reason we are out now. What are this year’s visual trends?

Everyone now relies on the video projections, it setting off fireworks on stage is a bit over. Stars and trees, they are crazy here. That project them continuously. Daniël Dekker of AVRO-TROS, said: “You have the idea that it is releasing a concert. It’s a TV show so you have to focus on the camera. “This choice is not made by any country clearly. There was one group of great dancers at the issue of Israel, who made a cross between folk and hip hop. But did you see anything of it, because in image only came closeups and totals. In the room it looks great, but the people must of course vote at home.

Where are you now anyway?

I’m in the press center …

The press room of the Contest in Vienna, Austria. Photos NRC / Wilfred Leaves

… and see a woman with a French flag on her head. [Against bystander:] Excuse me miss, can I take a picture of you Oh, it’s not a woman at all?. It’s a man. Smile to the camera! Merci beaucoup!

The French representative at the Eurovision Song Contest 2015. Photos NRC / Wilfred Leaves

There is also a casino table sponsor, Casino Austria. [Wilfred asks a lady who mans the booth:] Is this just for show or can you really play here? I can not win back my flight? Ok. Can I take a picture

The casino table in the press room of the Contest in Vienna. Photos NRC / Wilfred Leaves

Trijntje may again be home, let’s not forget that there are quite some Dutch touches sit at this Contest. The company Unbranded built the scenery, and wrote the Hague-Hungarian song for Hungary.

That’s right. The funny thing is that the Hilversum production Unbranded first called Dutch hands, but because of the international battle that they have created, the name is apparently adapted. The floor on which everyone dances indeed come from the Netherlands, a company in Amersfoort. She dances on a gigantic flattened TV. Normally you have to project video, but then you dance through it. It is a LED TV but over 40 meters. The tour that I got today behind the scenes of how things work here was done by a Dutchman Sietse Bakker. He works for the organizers, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). There, you got all superlatives, “we have so many man technique and security needs” and so on. We have been in the room, looked at the lights and sound. They have two satellites, because they have everything twice. Also in personnel, so if one utivalt is one of them ready. They’re very obsessive about the ‘back up’, he said.

Talk about a new submission, this morning you mentioned Caro Emerald al. Last night there is a Facebook page (with nearly 6,000 likes) with which calls for the Youth of Today to send to Eurovision next year. Do you have some of inherited?

No, this is new to me. But it seems to me a very good idea. They still speak a homemade Esperanto? Nobody can then understand. I wonder how they translate the Negro Salvation (producer Bas Bron, JL.). That may be, you can do crazy things. It must be a form of humor that comes across, but it can be done.

More updates from the Eurovision Song Contest? Look through Saturday daily www.nrc.nl/muziek. Read the previous installment of this section