Azerbaijan-Ukraine-Netherlands: 2nd rehearsal (videos)

Safura does her Drip drop now in full stage costume. It is blue chiffon with blue flashing lights underneath the dress. She still seems slightly uncomfortable in her high heels, especially when negotiating the steps down from the podium. The water theme works with the greens and the blues and projections. Vocally the team clear the number close to perfectly.

Alyosha from Ukraine is spending a lot of time in Oslo promoting her Greenpeace-sponsored Ecovision campaign to highlight ecological problems around the world. She sings her song Sweet people in a peach dress, after undressing a purple cloak, just alone on the stage and wants the powerful message in the song to do the work. Her voice is certainly one of the most powerful ones in the contest.

Sieneke for the Netherlands missed her first press conference owing to illness but seems to have fully recovered for this second rehearsal. Her hair is now up and she is wearing a beige top and white trousers. There are rainbow colours on the stage and the street organ which also spells out the song title. This joyful number will be noticed by the audiences at home at put a smile on many a face. Netherlands should not be discounted for a qualification either now.