JESC

The performance of Fabian has changed a lot compared to the national preselection. Now, he has extra dancers, who give a magic act, which leads to appearance of a small cute female guitarist. Fabian interacts pretty well with all his stage partners. At the end they even use a catwalk. It may seem that this is a bit overdone, but I think it will look very good on screens. I´m afraid though the performance is better than the, still unfortunately dull, song itself.

The stage act here is very nice. They have a girl as a DJ (as we informed - original idea was to have a young boy, Rufat, on this position, but he was rejected as he isn't 10 yet, so he is here just as a guest). The vocal performance is much better than at the opening party, seemingly due to the double track. The backing vocals still are partly live, which is a very surprising come JESC. The show is very nice, and if they fix vocal part, they should do really well.

Well, the dancers turned out to be sort of backing singers that do just some hand moves as part of their act. The only move Lova makes is 1 step in front in the 2nd part of the song. It is very static and today also not vocal perfect, but overall impression is pretty good. It is the only ballad in the line up.

Confident performance for Yegor, who has no costumes yet on so far. It however is really outdated, and looks like typical Soviet schlager. In particular singer is hardly involved in any action that is taking place behind him. Work of dancers is great, but it doesn't really feel like a joint team work so far.

Our next guest is Lova from Sweden and her two dancers.

Tomorrow,
delegations will have shooting of postcards, as well as recording of KidsRights song "We can be heroes" with lead singers of all countries. At 20.00 it is closed for press rehearsal of the same song in some dance studio.
We will be trying to bring some full interviews tomorrow, but considering it is probably the busiest day for delegations, we will probably delay some of them till next days.

On Wednesday all delegations will have Boat Trip with dinner (again closed for press, first time ever delegation tours are closed for press).
This will be the full day of rehearsals as you can check in schedules on our side.

On Thursday, it's quick run through of all rehearsals as well as dance rehearsal of a group song and opening show. These rehearsals may be closed for press as well.

After party on Saturday is also closed for press as well. I think it is the first time ever in JESC. Actually, there even is no press transportation from official hotel to Arena.
Update: There will be buses for press!

Femke from The Netherlands has already arrived a bit shortly before on a bus from her home town, we will talk with her shortly.

Delegation from Moldova is the last one to arrive. Part of them with lead singer, his father and producer came right now, while the rest of the team are having long bus trip to Amsterdam and will arrive at about 1am this night. Denis is very happy to come to Amsterdam, he wants to see the city and make new friends. He wants to win, but thinks one need to work very hard to achieve this. After the interview Denis mentioned he is looking forward meeting Ralf... and moments later Ralf with his mother entered the hotel and greeted Denis!

Check photogallery at the
http://www.junioreurovision.tv/page/photos?gal=68203

on a two hours bus trip from Belgium, followed by a team of Belgian reporters who were interviewing him right near the bus. He hopes it will be a very nice week, he hopes to meet a lot of friends and have fun.

Smallest and cutest contestant from Ukraine has arrived. Nastya was a bit tired after her journey, but is confident that she will bring the victory home.