Ultimate evening (Tuesday Might 7), Eire’s genre-splicing nu gen artist Bambie Thug formally earned the precise to constitute their nation at this 12 months’s Eurovision Tune Contest grand last, which takes position this coming Saturday, Might 11, in Malmö, Sweden.
Bambie, who describes their song as ‘ouija-pop’, carried out a devilishly a laugh model in their 2023 unmarried Doomsday Blue, which featured the original singer-songwriter dancing in a sinister ballet with a quite demonic having a look spouse, and writhing round within the centre of a pentagram, flocked via candles. All beautiful steel, mainly. The efficiency peaked with Bambie dropping their black, feathered garb to show a tattered two-piece decked within the colors of the trans satisfaction flag.
Bambie Thug, who identifies as non-binary, has overtly supported trans rights from the beginning in their occupation, telling Steel Hammer in 2022: “The one option to assist folks is to percentage your personal issues. When I used to be 14 or 15, I’d have truly appreciated that. Being gender dysmorphic is an excessively onerous position to be.”
“I wish to have large stadium excursions”, they added in their ambitions for the long run. “I wish to use all of my theatre child coaching to construct large units and placed on an absolute display.”
Stadium excursions can have to watch for now, however The Macroom, Cork local took an enormous step forwards of their occupation remaining evening via being voted thru to the Eurovision last on Saturday, along artists representing Serbia, Portugal, Slovenia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Finland, Cyprus, Croatia and Luxembourg.
Watch Bambie Thug’s Eurovision semi-final efficiency of Doomsday Blue beneath. The Eurovision Tune Contest grand last may also be watched this Saturday, Might 11, from 8pm UK time on BBC 1.
