The event is set to take place in ACC Liverpool, with a 950 square metre main stage and a 500 square metre green room along with more than 2,000 specialist lighting fixtures. Over the five-stage building weeks, the production team is installing 140 tonnes of a steel ground support structure and eight miles of cabling for lighting, sound, video, and special effects.
James O’Brien, the executive in charge of Eurovision production, who previously worked on the MTV Europe Music Awards for 13 years before joining BBC Studios, talked about the scale of the show. According to him, “You’ll see when you see the show that the set is absolutely enormous and covers almost the entire floor, because there’s a green room that goes in where the talent sit to watch the show.” He also mentioned the decision to incorporate a thrust stage into the performances, which is a unique feature to the Eurovision. The stage will jut out into the audience, with the audience sitting around the sides.
