Sweden

The swedish selection Melodifestivalen continued with the second chance heat that took place in the town of Örebro, about 200 km west of Stockholm. 2 out of 8 songs were selected by swedish televote to take the remaining two places in the final in Globen next Saturday.

The fourth heat in Sweden just ended. After the performance of the remaining 8 songs in the selection the last two direct qualified positions for the final in Globen were filled. As two more acts went to the second chance round the line-up for the next heat is known.

After two weeks of disappointments the expectations was high on today’s Swedish semi final. There had been a lot of rumors going around that this line up was the strongest so far. And it was without a doubt, an exciting evening. EuroVisionary attended the press conference to take the pulse on the contestants.

After two days with rehearsals in the arena with only a few reporters in the audience it was finally time for a real dress rehearsal on Friday night. This is also the first time we get a preview if the viewer’s will like the acts or not. EuroVisionary attended the dress rehearsal and was a little bit surprised about the audience response.

A new day has arrived in Gothenburg and once again the reporters are gathered in the arena to watch the rehearsals. As oppose to yesterday the artists will rehears with their actual clothes today. EuroVisionary was there to cover the rehearsals.

During the first day of rehearsals there was a big press conference with all of this weeks participating artists. First we had an opportunity to take pictures of each of the contestants and afterwards we were able to speak with three of them: Alcazar, Darin and Elin Lanto.