Conor O’Donohoe is set to take to the Eurovision stage dressed in a gold catsuit with flares - as Wild Youth prepare to make their bid for Eurovision glory later this month.
We can reveal in new pictures that the singer will take to the stage in a sparkly gold flared jumpsuit to perform their track, We Are One, during the first semi-final on May 9 in Liverpool.
Conor is set to add some glamour to his performance with plenty of pyrotechnics and stairs.
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Eurovison.tv gave a description of Wild Youth’s first semi-final performance on Sunday writing: “Conor in a glam rock gold catsuit with flares. This staging also features our first stairs of the day – a horseshoe arrangement featuring all the LEDs.”
The staging comes just a week after Wild Youth sacked their creative director Ian Banham over his comments on Ukraine winning the Eurovision Song Contest and transphobia.
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling then waded in on the row and accused them of “preening, self-satisfied misogyny” for sacking their Eurovision creative director over his tweets.
Speaking to Ryan Tubridy on the RTE Late Late Show on Friday, Conor said the reason they sacked Mr Banham was because his tweets "went against what we believe in as a band".
He said: "I don't want to dwell on it too much but there's a series of tweets that were brought to our attention that kinda went against a lot of stuff that we believe in as a band.
"So we just thought it was easier to part company and go to Liverpool by ourselves."
Conor admitted the involvement of JK Rowling in the debate added another element of stress before they are due to perform on stage in Liverpool at the first semi-final on May 9.
"It's very stressful," he admitted. "I think as well because she kind of hyper focused on one thing and really highlighted one thing that we have never referenced or spoke about, and focused on that being the main reason as to why we parted company, which isn't necessarily the truth. It's not the truth at all."
"I hope it's in the past now and we can just kind of look forward to doing the Eurovision. We're here, we're very honoured to be representing Ireland, our country. We're so excited to get to Liverpool and I think we just want that to be our focus.
"We want this to be such a positive experience."
Conor previously told how their staging will be “big and bold” and they are not taking any shortcuts.
He described to us the stage as being “quite retro” and there will be tributes paid on the night to past Irish winners including Johnny Logan and Niamh Kavanagh, also.
“In terms of the staging, I feel like it feels quite retro, and I think there is something we have as part of our staging that when I watched a performance from a long time ago – it was one of Johnny Logan’s performances. People will probably see it and go ‘what?’ but it is something that I saw in that performance that was a setting feature that maybe inspired something.”
“You get to see your stage and they do stand ins and they perform and then they send it over to you so you get to make adjustments so if it doesn’t look exactly how it want it to look, you can make final adjustments so that has all been done and we saw a little snippet of it yesterday. We’re feeling happy.”
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