At the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Malmo, Sweden – the event takes place from Tuesday 7 to Saturday 11 May at the Malmo Arena – Ireland is represented by Bambie Thug. The thirty-year-old singer-songwriter recently brought the song to the stage ‘Doomsday Blue’.
From Dolly Parton to Britney Spearspassing through Nina Simone, Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell and Led Zeppelin: the musical world that influenced and still influences Bambie Thug’s way of making music is varied and very composite. And all this is reflected in her way of making music and being a true performer on stage.
But who is Bambie Thug? The Irish singer-songwriter is a particular character. At the registry office Bambie Ray Robinsonpractice it witchcraft and in particular the magic of seals and manifestation and in the past he also practiced that of blood. She defines herself as non-binary, so much so that she goes by the gender-neutral pronoun “they”. A peculiarity: during childhood she was diagnosed with attention deficit disorder. His participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 therefore also represents a message for all the people who allow themselves to be discouraged by diagnoses of this kind.
In ‘Doomsday blue’, the song that Bambie Thug takes to the Eurovision Song Contest 2024, there is an atmosphere halfway between the spiritual and the desperate. ‘Doomsdaby blue’ is a sort of cry, a request for help.
