Hello again peeps! Another day dawns in Baku and the Eurofun begins again. Friday was esc-chat.com’s first proper day in Baku and we were up early to get to the press centre to catch some of the rehearsals! We managed to see the run throughs of quite a few songs, and the stage is looking really impressive! The Green Room which is located in the arena itself, similar to the setup at this year’s Melodifestivalen. Some of the songs have gone up in our estimation, especially Macedonia – Kailiopi was simply outstanding vocally – her scream gets us every time. Others, particularly Ireland were not so great, Jedward were wearing terrible white jackets with flags on them and they were all sweaty – not a good look. Their water fountain gimmick also looks a bit naff if we’re honest.

The rehearsals were running an hour late, which I’m told is a regular occurence, so we had to leave as Malta were on to get ready for the joint Sanmarinese/Swiss party at EuroClub, where we were promised free food and drink, so it would have been rude to say no! A little while after we got there, there was a flurry of activity towards the stage and Sinplus came on stage and performed a mini-concert of a few songs, which was really good.

Halfway through, we spotted Eleftheria Eleftheriou dancing at the front, wearing fabulous neon green high heels!

Most of the fans seemed to be more interested in getting a photo with Eleftheria than listening to poor Sinplus! She was lapping up all the attention and looked rather fabulous!

After Sinplus came off stage, there was a little break before massive pictures of Valentina were shown on the screens! A few people came on stage to say a few words, including Ralph Siegel before we were treated to a dance remix of The Social Network song, then we saw 3 diffrerent fan made videos of the song, by the end of which I was losing the will to live!

We saw Valentina standing at the side of the stage preparing to sing, and we managed to grab a few words with her to wish her the best of luck on Tuesday, then she went on stage and sang a lovely jazz number, showing she really does have an excellent voice!

After that, we partied into the early hours with some Eurofriends before crashing back at the apartment around 3am!