Cyprus´ first rehearsal

Sources:esctoday.com;eurovision.tv;photos:Alain Douit (eurovision.tv) 

After coming 11th in the 1992 and 1994 Eurovision Sing Contest, Evridiki is back with her french song Comme ci comme ca.

Evridiki´s first rehearsal is over and the staging is very graphic. The camera moves in on the catwalk while the staging is mainly in red but soon changes to huge orizontal white blocks before turning into multicolour sound equalizer-like screens in green and yellow before changing into white again. Pyros complete the performanceat the end of the song.

 

On stage Evridiki is accompanied bye two female backing singers, keyboard and drum players and Dimitris Korgialas himself who’s playing the guitar. The background LED reflections during the song are very much in style of the 80s and change from red columns to blue, green yellow and white. The camera is focused entirely on her and during an instrumental part of the song the audience will even see Evridiki turn into slow-motion. At the end of the song pyrotechnics will be used wich lead up to a dramatic end of the song.

Press conference

Generally the Cypriot delegation was quite happy with the first rehearsal, admitted that there were minor sound problems and they are quite confident. There were a couple of questions to Dimitris Korgialas about his musical background and influences. The composer of the Cypriot entry named Cure, Depeche Mode and generally 80´s New Wave as his favourite musical influences.

A relevant question about future plans of the Cypriot representative made the head of delegations answer to the applause of the people: The winner’s tour of course first! More seriously nothing specific is planned yet but Evridiki plans to tour Europe after the contest, and eventually release her single and album abroad.