Dan Shipton will be directing three countries in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. Specifically, Black Scull Creative, owned by Dan, his husband Ross Nicholson, and their collaborators Jay Revell and Paul Gardner, will be responsible for the television production of the entries from Austria, Germany, and Cyprus.
Speaking to The Euro Trip, Dan Shipton revealed:
We have Austria, Germany, and Cyprus.
We are very excited about these countries and we are very close to them.
We turned down several collaborations this year to dedicate more time to family, but we couldn’t miss out on Eurovision because it’s our passion.
Shipton has been the creative director of many entries in the past decade and was the main creative director of Eurovision 2023 in Liverpool. Also, in 2022, he worked with four countries, while in 2021, he collaborated with seven. Shipton and Nicholson had to reduce their collaborations for this year’s Eurovision as they are expecting their first child. Marvin Dietmann will also be collaborating with them on the three entries in Malmo this year.
Kaleen, this year’s representative of Austria at Eurovision, is married to Dietmann and is a close friend of Shipton.
Kaleen and I have been friends for years.
The song is a banger and has very nice elements. It’s wonderful, her vocals are amazing, the choreography is fantastic, and the song is perfect.
It has something different from what you would expect from a typical Eurovision song. What we have prepared will excite.
17-year-old Silia Kapsis, who will represent Cyprus with “Liar,” has already started working with Shipton and his team to prepare her performance for Malmo.
The song is fantastic. When her team sent it to me, I listened to it, listened to it again, listened to it for a third time, and I really liked it.
As an artist, she is amazing. Vocally, she is great. The choreography is wonderful. She definitely has the potential to stand out.
The Eurovision stage has been designed by German designer Florian Wieder, who has designed seven stages at Eurovision since 2011, including last year’s in Liverpool.
Whatever Florian designs is amazing.
It’s wonderful to have the audience around you. The cross-shaped stage will compel people to rally around it.
It’s up to us, as creative directors, to find a way to capture something different and guess what the result will look like to do something that will stand out. The stage has many possibilities.
Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all the latest developmentes regarding the 68th Eurovision Song Contest!
Source: The Euro Trip Podcast
