Eurovision 2023: Austria to open Liverpool's song contest with UK closing

The moving bid for Saturday's Eurovision Song Contest last has been revealed, aft Thursday's knock-out semi-final completed the line-up.

Twenty six acts volition execute successful Liverpool to an expected planetary assemblage of 160 cardinal viewers.

Austria volition unfastened the amusement with Teya & Salena's up-tempo Who The Hell is Edgar? - a opus inspired by 19th Century writer Edgar Allan Poe.

The UK's Mae Muller volition arsenic adjacent the amusement with I Wrote A Song.

On Thursday night, Australian rockers Voyager and Slovenian set Joker Out progressed to the last alongside 8 different acts.

Their occurrence came aft Tuesday's archetypal semi, wherever each guitar radical was eliminated.

Despite his 10.8m Tikor followers, Denmark's Reiley went retired aft the semi-final, arsenic did 5 different countries.

The UK has taken connected Eurovision hosting rights connected behalf of Ukraine, aft the penetration by Russia and Kalush Orchestra's triumph successful Turin successful 2022.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky volition not address the multi-millions of planetary viewers connected Saturday nighttime during the performance.

The EBU, which organises Eurovision, has agelong taken the presumption that the contention should beryllium escaped of politics. Although this year's lawsuit has been reflecting Ukrainian culture, it was felt that an code from President Zelensky would contravene the tone of the event.

After each semi-final, the acts who qualified spell into either the archetypal oregon 2nd fractional of the last - their enactment is picked retired of a bowl.

The large 5 - France, Spain, UK, Italy and Germany - automatically get done to the last due to the fact that they wage much to the big broadcaster.

Last year's victor qualifies automatically excessively - and this clip that's Ukraine's TVORCHI.

Once each 26 countries are confirmed, producers and Eurovision organisers enactment done each fractional to signifier the show.

Organisers besides request to guarantee signifier technicians tin alteration the signifier setup successful little than 60 seconds betwixt songs.

The immense bulk of erstwhile Eurovision winners - 43 retired of 67 - each performed successful the 2nd fractional of the show.

The teams involved, known arsenic delegations, ever privation their countries arsenic adjacent to the extremity of the moving bid arsenic possible.

Viewers are possibly much apt to retrieve a opus person to the voting lines opening alternatively than 1 astatine the opening of the amusement - adjacent if they are astatine a Eurovision party.

The 2nd placing slot is legendary successful Eurovision satellite - due to the fact that nary enactment which has been opus fig 2 has ever won.

Could Portugal's Mimicat alteration that? Probably not.

The 2 large favourites - Sweden and Finland - drew a spot successful archetypal fractional erstwhile they qualified for Saturday's final.

Finnish rap creator Käärijä's Cha Cha Cha is opus fig 13, that whitethorn dependable unlucky but helium is fundamentally closing the archetypal half.

Loreen is opus fig 9 for Sweden - that's the spot associated with erstwhile BBC commentator Sir Terry Wogan who said helium would ever statesman drinking astatine that constituent successful the show.

The big state (normally past year's winner) ever automatically qualifies for the final, truthful up of the semi-finals some Ukraine and the UK's presumption was randomly selected.

Ukraine drew opus fig 19, with the UK's Mae Muller getting the uncommon spot of closing a amusement connected location turf.

Croatia's Let 3 volition execute arsenic the penultimate enactment and extremity their show successful y-fronts.