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# Bish Bash Bosh! Olly Alexander takes to the stage in Malmö for his first Eurovision rehearsal
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/bish-bash-bosh-olly-alexander-takes-to-the-stage-in-malmo-for-his-first-eurovision-rehearsal/
- Published: 2024-05-02T15:43:59.000Z
- Updated: 2024-05-02T15:44:18.000Z
- Description: Olly Alexander took to the stage today for his first rehearsal for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö. Olly, backed by four hot dancers, is bringing a homo-erotic boxing motif to his Eurovision performance of Dizzy, which is the first song in his own name since stepping away from Years & Y
- Author: Graham Robson
- Tags: Music, Eurovision, Eurovision 2024, malmo, Olly Alexander, Sweden

**Olly Alexander** took to the stage today for his first rehearsal for this year’s **Eurovision Song Contest** in **Malmö**.

Olly, backed by four hot dancers, is bringing a homo-erotic boxing motif to his Eurovision performance of ***Dizzy***, which is the first song in his own name since stepping away from Years & Years.

Olly’s Eurovision performance transports viewers into a post- apocalyptic dystopian boxing gym locker room, aboard a spaceship hurtling toward Earth through a black hole in 1985!

We’re not making this up, we promise. Essentially there’s a big room set on stage, lined with dirty tiles and shower heads – this whole thing feels like a grittier version of George Michael’s *Outside*, so very much the vibe of the official video.

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/020524_sarah-louise-bennett_ebu_21862-e1714664538353.jpg)

Olly’s four male dancers are wearing (the bare minimum of) red boxing gear, and the camera angles keep changing so it feels like the room is rotating, backed by a spinning black hole graphics on the LED. It really does feel like they’re in a dirty locker room hurtling through space.

In short, it’s VERY ambitious and mind-blowing bit of staging, with a gym bag full of special effects that mean it only really comes to life on screen.

Also a note on the song arrangement – to our ears, there’s a new middle eight with extra strings, and the build to the final chorus is different.

**Olly will perform at this year’s Eurovision final in Malmö on Saturday, 11 May. Watch on BBC One.**

**Photos by Sarah Louise Bennett**