Electro Velvet for the UK at Eurovision 2015. Photo : YouTube
UNITED KINGDOM : Our thoughts on how Electro Velvet should stage their Eurovision Entry ‘Still in love with you’
So here are some more first thoughts on ‘How Should They Stage their song at Eurovision 2015’?
First, here‘s the one-and-only Garrett interviewing Alex and Bianca of Electro Velvet, who will represent the United Kingdom in Vienna. They have Irish and Greek connections you know!
One of Eurovision’s most successful countries took a while to announce its entrant for Vienna, and again dispensed with a national final.
Eurovision Ireland Meets Electro Velvet from the United Kingdom. Photo : Eurovision Ireland
As you may have read, ‘Still in love with you’ has generated a huge amount of interest. It is definitely a different song, and a whole heap of fun into the bargain. Who needs a trudging of ballads (is there a collective noun for a group of ballads?) when you can have something uptempo and annoyingly catchy (that’s a good thing by the way). Personally, I love it.
Obviously, come 23 May, there will be a slick stage act to sell if to the people and juries of Europe. As a broad vision, I’m imagining something along the lines of ‘Alt det som ingen ser’, performed by Lotte Nilsson and Kenny Lübcke back in 1992. So you have Alex on one side of the stage with his two wingmen, and Bianca on the other with two ladies. They sing their separate parts before coming together. Our four friends of Alex and Bianca are top class Charleston dancers, who do a mean line in jazz hands. It’ll all move along very nicely, getting increasingly infectious and getting the whole audience bopping away. You may not believe me, but it’ll happen.
Finally, any backdrop needs to be vibrant, maybe in a plush red velvet sort of way (did you see what I did there?) to give it that period setting.
So you can perhaps get a flavour, this video is a live performance in London’s Hammersmith Arena on 31 March.
But what do you think?
Author/Editor: John Stanton
Source: Eurovision Ireland
Categories: Eurovision 2015, Eurovision Contestants 2015, UK
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I really hope this soars, Good luck UK :)
Agree with the four dancers but go for two couples from Strictly, a BBC brand that has transferred successfully across Europe, doing Charleston either side of Alex and Bianca. They have old style microphones in place, maybe even go for a mob boss/moll combo. Backdrop – agree with having plush curtain effect, so as not to detract from our duo and the dancers.