Copenhagen is the host of the Eurovision Song Contest drawing 90,000 live audiences over nine live shows in a former shipyard in the inner harbor. The logistics are enormous and on the long list of gear used is 275 km of power lock cables – and 1,000 sets of fake eyelashes.
Copyright: Bjarne Bergius Hermansen
Friday, May 9, 2014
About the Eurovision Song Contest 2014
Is the world’s largest music competition
Is the largest TV-production in Danish history to date
Involves 9 shows with audience
Has 37 participating countries
In 2013, a total of 170 million viewers watched the show
1500-1700 journalists & photographers from across the globe cover the event
Some 10,000 persons are accredited – people working on the show, the media and the participating delegations from the various countries
90,000 is the number of audience who will have seen the show live
Approx. 80,000 bed nights are expected in the Greater Copenhagen Area
Involves a total of 78.5 hours of rehearsals and shows with the finalists
About the Burmeister & Wain shipyard (the B&W venue) and the show
60 is the number of meters from floor to ceiling at the venue’s highest point
If you’d fill up the B&W shipyard with champagne there’d be room for 724,000,000 litres
In total there are:
550 staff members involved in the actual show-production
800 m2 scenography
40 tonnes of steel has been used for parts of the scenography
Over 1200 m2 of LED screen
9 million diodes on the floor and back wall of the stage
1,679,616 pixels in the stage floor
22 confetti guns
94 microphones
22 cameras
14 persons placed in 24 meters height during the shows handling the follow spots
A total of 2810 lamps
100 trucks have been to the B&W venue with technical equipment
15,886 m2 of tents outside the B&W venue for media centre, back stage, etc.
35,700 meters of silencing fabric has been stuck on the B&W venue
275 km of power lock cables is in use at the B&W venue
The banners on the outer side of the B&W venue measure 55×30 m and 40×35 m
Internet speed is 10 gb/s fed redundant
About the food
At the B&W venue per lunch is served:
182 kg chicken
130 kg pork (cuts of pig)
124 kg jacket potatoes
100 kg carrots
About the makeup
At the event is used:
150 cans of face powder
90 nail varnishes
300 cans of hair spray
1000 sets of fake eyelashes
About the volunteers
Host City Copenhagen engage with 930 volunteers during the event
The volunteers represent 53 different nationalities
The youngest volunteer is 18 years old and the oldest 77 years old
About Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest
It is the 3rd time that the Eurovision Song Contest is held in Denmark
It is the 59th Eurovision Song Contest
Denmark has been in the Top 5-ranks fourteen times
A host nation has won three times on home ground in the ESC history
Denmark has never won twice in a row
About this year’s artists
There are 17 female soloists in the year’s Eurovision (Incl. Conchita Wurst)
Three duets
A maximum of 6 performers are allowed on the stage simultaneously
33 of the 37 entries are performed in English
