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Former OGAE UK President Alasdair Rendall explains how the club delivered the Liverpool Eurovision experience to the many members and visitors
Alasdair on the Euroclub stage
Charlotte Perrelli performs
A year since we first head that phrase uttered on the news bulletins, it still feels utterly surreal that this actually happened.Was it a dream? Did we really spend the most amazing week in Liverpool? When it was first announced that the UK would be hosting Eurovision, I must admit to feeling rather bittersweet. While it was obviously amazing that the UK would host, I did feel a sense of disappointment, having stepped down as OGAE UK President only the previous year, after six years where hosting the contest seemed like a pipe dream. I was therefore delighted and honoured to be asked to chair the Liverpool Organising Committee, which was given the mammoth task of organising not only the Euroclub, “The UK will host the Eurovision Song Contest”
Liverpool embraces Eurovision
but the overall fan experience for the thousands of OGAE members coming to Liverpool from across Europe and beyond. In the autumn of 2022, through discussions with Liverpool City Council (who were an absolute pleasure to deal with throughout), it was revealed that Camp & Furnace would be designated the Euroclub. And, in a change to some previous years, it would not be run by the host broadcaster, but would be run as a commercial entity, open to
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