Germany
13 - 15 May 2011
Eurovision 2011 - We visit Germany to sample the annual trash fest final - up close and personal!
An estimated audience of 120 million people worldwide and 36,000 spectators live at the arena in Düsseldorf joined together on May 14 to party the night away! Ell and Nikki were triumphant with their duet, 'running scared', a slushy sing-along track that was actually quite good! They take the award back home to Azerbaijan - we look forward to the 2012 contest!
The production of this huge show was awesome! The central staging element was a huge 1,250 square meter LED screen, built with 1,330 LED modules Spider 30 with a resolution of 30 mm and a total weight of 30 tons! Set designer Florian Wieder and lighting designer Jerry Appelt created a magical environment for the live performances. Huge indoor pyrotechnics and stunning motion graphics just added to the visual bombardment. A wonderful way to spend an evening in the Esprit Arena - (watch the vid above to see how they did it - brilliant!) Thank you to Mark and Chris for a fab weekend!
Blue - I can - our best result for ages!
Just one of the amazing light showsMy favorite performances from past contests are shown below.
2006 - Lordi from Finland perform 'Hard Rock Hallelujah'
We stayed in Cologne during our visit to Eurovision - An exciting City and well worth a weekend of any ones time! On a damp Sunday morning after the contest we enjoyed a few hours exploring before our flights home. Here's what we did:
We took a cable car ride over the Rhein and enjoyed beautiful views of the City. We found a wonderful local market and explored the many independent stalls. We walked over the Hohenzollern Bridge and marvelled at the millions of padlocks that have been attached to the fence. More to come...
We took a cable car ride over the Rhein and enjoyed beautiful views of the City. We found a wonderful local market and explored the many independent stalls. We walked over the Hohenzollern Bridge and marvelled at the millions of padlocks that have been attached to the fence. More to come...
10 out of 10
