A Eurovision “superfan” has said he is on “another level” after securing tickets to the song contest in May.
Adam Jowett, originally from Birkenhead, managed to get his hands on tickets for the first semi-finals preview show on Monday, May 8.
The 27-year-old has previously attended Eurovision in 2019 when he travelled to Israel and therefore had an idea of roughly how much the tickets would cost. Adam paid £200 for one ticket.
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The medical writer told the ECHO: “It was amazing getting the tickets, it was very exciting and on another level. I was really happy but so nervous because I knew the demand was so high. The fact I managed to get some tickets I am so grateful and going to a Eurovision event in Liverpool will be amazing.”
Adam said what draws him to the competition is seeing aspects of other countries' cultures from all over the world.
He said: “I love the spectacle of it all. There are 37 countries in it this year and they all bring something different which is representative of their own culture and their own music scene. All the countries are so distinctive from each other and every year is so different with the different host cities and themes.
“When all the songs are brought together on stage with the performance, it changes it all together and that's something I look forward to every year - seeing how these songs come to life.”
For the rest of the week, Adam will be acting as a tourist guide for his friends who are visiting the city for the first time. When he isn’t showing others all of what the region has to offer, Adam plans to “get involved any way possible” with Eurovision.
Not everyone was as lucky as Adam to secure tickets. Karl Emmerson, who lives in the L8 area of Liverpool, is currently on holiday in Egypt but was determined not to let that “stop” him.
Unfortunately, the 56-year-old Alder Hey nurse - who transformed the opening of Spellbound Hair Salon, located behind Primark in the City Centre, into a Eurovision window - was unable to bag any tickets.
He told the ECHO: “Believe it or not, I've just been in the queue for an hour. The queue was 2,000 when it opened, we got to the end and there was nothing left for the final. At least, we can go down the fan zone with friends. I might as well go back to the pool and drown my sorrows in all-inclusive cheap cocktails.”
American drag queen Maxxy Rainbow, who has a YouTube channel dedicated to Eurovision content, was in a similar situation to Karl. The 23-year-old performer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania still plans on travelling to the city in May to enjoy the likes of EuroVillage - the official fan zone - but is still “gutted”.
He said: “I did not have any luck getting my tickets. It was a quite frustrating process, despite making it through the queues it was refusing to accept my multiple different forms of payment. So I’m quite gutted, however, there will luckily still be many things to do in Liverpool.”
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