XTRA REHEARSALS — 🇪🇪 No surprises (yet?) from Tommy Cash

Eurovision is here! Delegations have been arriving in Basel in the last few days and rehearsals started on May 3. After closing the first rehearsals to the press in 2022, the EBU has now done away with TikTok videoclips. They will instead release sets of three photographs a day after each rehearsal, as well as description of the proceedings on their official channels. As such, today, we cover yesterday’s rehearsals, and continue with Estonia, fourth rehearsal of the day, with “Espresso Macchiato”.

🇪🇪 Estonia – Tommy Cash – First rehearsal

The following pictures have been published by the official Eurovision accounts. (Source: Alma Bengtsson, Corinne Cumming / EBU)

What happened on stage?

This description is sourced from indications given by the official Eurovision Reddit account.

• Tommy will wear the same blue-suit he wore at Eesti Laul, with the long red tie and the “I love Eurovision” post-it
• He will be accompanied by four dancers (two of them from the beginning, with two others joining them later during the song), who will also be dressed as security guards
• The back-wall LED screens will showcase both “an alpine landscape” matching the mountains build around the stage, and the same kind of images and animations showed in Eesti Laul (probably paper cups, Euro notes, pictures of coffee cups, etc.).
  • Other animations include a Tommy Cash plane and a “Tommywood” parody of the Hollywood sign, which was revealed in an official Youtube short in which Klemen, from Slovenia, was shown above the stage (likely during the Estonian rehearsal, which was after Slovenia’s)

All in all, the description seems very much similar to what Tommy had done in Estonia, despite teasers from him about big changes. Either these teasers were misleading, or the Eurovision accounts are not disclosing everything, or he has changes planned for later rehearsals or actual performances (which may not be very rule-abiding…).

Stay tuned for further coverage of today’s photos as they are released, and for our live coverage on the ground starting on May 10, which will include (among other things) the full dress rehearsals and the live shows, live from Basel!