Organisers of The Eurovision Song Contest's Liverpool EuroClub are hoping to announce more new artists ahead of its launch.
Camp and Furnace was chosen as this year's Euroclub, promising nine nights of music and celebration for fans from around the world to enjoy. The venue is sparing no expense as they've just announced a star-studded lineup to kick off the contest in style.
The venue will welcome performers including previous winners, Conchita Wurst and Kalush Orchestra, fan favourites Joker Out and KeiiNO, and Jemini - the Liverpool pair who scored nul points in 2003.
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Alasdair Rendall, the former president of Eurovision fan club OGAE UK who is leading the organisation of EuroClub told the Liverpool Echo he wanted to gather as many unique but fitting stars as possible.
He said: "We wanted our first announcement to be a series of winners followed by some UK acts and obviously some Ukrainian acts. We just wanted the right balance across the week of big Eurovision stars that we know do a great set and that the fans that want to see with a mixture they've never seen before or will happily see again."
Teasing more acts to come, Alasdair added: "We're hoping to get more of the 2023 acts but with the nature of EuroClub it's pretty last minute and some not announced until the day. There's a list of three or four still to come and hopefully more closer to the time."
Camp and Furnace's interior will undergo a Eurovision makeover with the glitz and glam of the contest taking centre stage. Revealing EuroClub's decorating plans, Alsadair said: "Lots of flags, flags everywhere. One thing it's going to be is a proper Eurovision backdrop.
"We're working to get some really great European content on the video screens so there'll be some nice video montages of Eurovision years gone by too but yeah, flags everywhere and more that I can't say."
The road to Liverpool's EuroClub was essentially dropped in organisers' laps after the council suggested Camp and Furnace host the events. Discussing the decision to house EuroClub in the Baltic Triangle, Aladair said: "So normally the OGAE club has to find a venue to be that year's EuroClub or Euro Fans Club but we were lucky this year in that the Liverpool City Council essentially gave us Camp and Furnace and said, ‘We're hoping this is going to be the EuroClub for this year.’
"We went and did a walk around the end of November, start of December and we decided this is perfect. That took a lot of our work of us in terms of finding a great venue and we could just focus from our side on the content and getting all the acts lined up. So yeah, it was kind of given to us on a plate and we lapped it up.”
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