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 )

I like this from Switzerland.

My goodness that's fantastic. What a performance. Love it l. ❤️

Oh come on now. There are many, far more terrible songs

Oh that was a bit sudden 🤣

Is this supposed to be arty or summat.

It's quite nice, I suppose, but the camera thing didn't work.

Faire un voyage out of my ears

Not for me .. boring , 🥱
nice dress though

True! Some of the vocals in the earlier songs were atrocious. The quality of the singing has definitely been better in the second half of the show… but god this Swiss one is putting me to sleep

Quite liked that. In an inoffensive way.

Bookies don't think Croatia will qualify. They obviously haven't had my drugs.

I think the camera may have broke..

Just saw a sign saying to turn your phone lights on. Not very organic.

That was a huge brain fart - of course, I meant the Netherlands. D'oh!!!

The St John''s Ambulance had to commandeer it for that Italian guy.

Scaffolding Cyprus 😅

Da Vinci Man

Are they making a hamster wheel? (Hopeful).

Loving the scaffolding! The song , not so much

Finding the strobe lighting really distracting. It’s too much

This is like a pumped up rip off of a Taylor Swift song

Sounds like I'm the only one who actually liked the Swiss song - second only to the Netherlands for me so far.

Oooh Vitruvian Man.

Why is everyone obsessed with Italy this year?

Can usually count on Cyprus for a banger. Not this thanks.

Cyprus: Theo Evan – “Shh” - Not a great song but great staging. Shouldn’t qualify but in a poor night, it has too.

His vocals/talky bits are way too low in the mix, which doesn't bode well for doing this live at all.

Plus it's a bit boring.