Eurovision Semi Final 1 - Tuesday 13th May 8pm

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Semi One features violins, saunas, timetravel back to the 70s, dragons, and there's even time for a coffee break.

1 ICELAND Roa Væb
2 POLAND Gaja Justyna Steczkowska
3 SLOVENIA How Much Time Do We Have Left Klemen
4 ESTONIA Espresso macchiato Tommy Cash
> SPAIN Esa diva Melody
5 UKRAINE Bird of Pray Ziferblat
6 SWEDEN Bara bada bastu KAJ
7 PORTUGAL Deslocado Napa
8 NORWAY Lighter Kyle Alessandro
9 BELGIUM Strobe Lights Red Sebastian
> ITALY Volevo essere un duro Lucio Corsi
10 AZERBAIJAN Run With U Mamagama
11 SAN MARINO Tutta l'Italia Gabry Ponte
12 ALBANIA Zjerm Shkodra Elektronike
13 NETHERLANDS C'est La Vie Claude
14 CROATIA Poison Cake Marko Bošnjak
> SWITZERLAND Voyage Zoë Më
15 CYPRUS Shh Theo Evan

Top Ten to qualify for the final (Spain, Italy and Switzerland have already automatic qualified)

Please keep this thread for the Show itself (if you want to add comments/spoilers before it starts theres already a thread in progress here https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/telly_addicts/5270858-eurovision-2025?page=1 )

This is just dirge ! Taxi for Portugal

weird, not shite yet... I must be a sucker for a ballad

This is dull as fuck.

No. Just no.

They spend weeks choosing their entry. It's a big deal in Sweden. I have Swedish colleagues and they love this year's song.

This has a very 70’s vibe

Gear change from Portugal. This is dull.

Feels like a song which plays unobtrusively in the background, in a shop

I still skip it every time it crops up on my Eurovision playlist. It’s the one winner I just don’t get at all.

Oh good lord this is dull as fuck. They did a big guitar bit for three seconds then and I held my breath… but no. Still dull as fuck.

Have they tried adding a sauna?

Its was weird. We were surprised as it seemed like the locals were REALLY indifferent to Eurovision being in their city.

This feels like the band from your local pub accidentally ended up at Eurovision.

Portugal is like a shit late era Beatles song

Bits of this are a rip off of bits of a Beatles' classic. But it's dull as.

Portugal: NAPA – “Deslocado”. Well sung and quiet staging. I like this song but I don’t think it is qualifying

jesus that was utter shite

Or a hamster wheel?

Actually no - Ocean Colour Scene

Lovely from Portugal x

How was that inspired by RHCP and Arctic Monkeys 🤣🤦🏼‍♀️

No, Portugal. And I never got the hype about salvodar either.

Quite liked Portugal. Mixed the vibe up a bit

Someone was on a LOT of drugs?!

So glad other pp are saying Beatles vibes for Poland .
I got that as well ..

D's really likes it and rates it
🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️..
He is 20
?

It contained at least one guitar.